Soundtrack | Silent Hunter 5

"New heading," I said, my voice dry as bone. "One-eight-zero. Dive to sixty meters."

Klaus didn't speak for six hours. He just stared at the empty horizon where the convoy had been. silent hunter 5 soundtrack

The first notes of the gramophone are always the same. It is the only luxury I allow myself before a dive. The orchestra swells—a hopeful, almost naive major key—the theme that plays over the Silent Hunter 5 menu screen. It is the sound of a clean harbor, of the brass gleaming before the first patrol. "New heading," I said, my voice dry as bone

We found them at dawn. A tanker, fat and slow, trailing behind the main herd. The music shifted to the "Attack" theme. It is not heroic. It is mechanical. A metronome ticking down. Woodwinds imitating the whine of a gyrocompass. He just stared at the empty horizon where

We survived that dance. We surfaced into a moonless night to recharge. The Silent Hunter 5 soundtrack has a piece called "Night Navigation." It is sparse. A lonely piano. The whisper of wind over a hydrophone. It is the sound of a man realizing he has been at sea too long.

The sound of a depth charge falling.

"Leak in the forward torpedo room!" Klaus screamed.