Awesome Music / S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

• Ukrainian metal band FireLake opens the series with Dirge For The Planet, playing on Sidorovich's radio. A melancholic song that evokes both the gloominess of the Zone and, for those who pay attention to the lyrics, how Monolith views the Wish Granter.
• The famous Bandit radio from Clear Sky is more famous than the games themselves thanks to its Memetic Mutation. It's still a cheery song on its own, though.
• Clear Sky's combat tracks. Some may argue that they don't fit the setting, but you cannot deny that they sound badass, specially while you're running from cover to cover hoping to not get shot while trying to clear a jammed AK and chugging down Stalker energy drinks.
• Call of Pripyat's combat tracks are also sweet. The feeling of marching towards the enemy in an exoskeleton while holding a fully modded Vintar BC with this in the background definitely makes you feel like you have become the Zone's walking nightmare.
• Call of Pripyat's ambient tracks may bring some fond memories of Metro 2033 back to fans of that game, as they perfectly invoke the dangerous, violent setting of the Zone where every man still standing is tested on their survival abilities. Hearing Jupiter's night theme while having to hunt a Chimera for Trapper will definitely make you feel like you're the one being hunted.
• The music inside of 100 Rads. Very jazzy and very comforting after crawling back into Duty's arms after a long while in the Zone.
• The outro song from Call of Pripyat. Both a fitting homage for the NPCs who didn't make it or got the short end of the stick due to not finishing their sidequests and a pumping song for those who got back on track or, such as Strelok, finally left the Zone.
• The credits song that plays in Call of Pripyat after finishing the game is no less awesome as it is performed by Ukrainian metal band FireLake. The band also released an English version of the same song for those who don't understand Ukrainian or Russian.
• While they didn't make to the retail release of Shadow of Chernobyl due to clashing with the game's atmosphere, "Predator" and "Bulletproof" by MoozE deserve a special mention. The latter, which is an aggressive piece of Industrial music, fits pretty damn well during the last stand against the C-Consciousness and Monolith themselves while fighting throughout the Chernobyl NPP.