Topic: So Konami did a 90 degree on the Silent Hill OSTs and Spotify

[Lumi Kløvstad]

In that they didn't care enough to turn the full 180.

There was about six months at the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017 where the Silent Hill soundtracks abruptly vanished from Spotify, along with most of Konami's other official releases. Needless to say, this hit me rather hard. The games scare the ever loving shit out of me but I adore the tunes with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, and enjoyed listening to them.

So, now there's good news and bad news.

The good news, is that at some uncertain time, some of those soundtracks finally made it back onto Spotify.
The bad news is that Silent Hill, SH2, SH3, and SH4 have all gone utterly ignored.

We have a Best Of album with a few songs from the aforementioned games though.

Also, the soundtracks for Origins, Homecoming, Downpour, Shattered Memories, and Book of Memories have all been rereleased back into the streaming wild.

The bad news is, these rereleases are noticeably edited from their original versions, missing a few tracks here and there (and they're not just "unavailable in your country", they're not there, period. In any country.) Furthermore, McGlynn's killer song, "I Want Love" is the ultimate track of their best of album, but McGlynn's recording is completely absent, and it's been replaced by an Italian singer who, far as I can tell, has never been associated with the series.

The Complete Soundtrack that lumps together all the soundtracks into one release IS on Spotify... but only in Japan.

Castlevania's soundtracks are, with the notable exception of the Netflix soundtrack, still totally absent from Spotify's USA catalog at the very least, not that the Spotify versions had been that good to begin with (missing tracks, mixed up track titles, very sparse selection of soundtracks released, etc).

Pretty open and shut case of Konami being Konami again.

It's pretty sad when even Capcom does the whole streaming soundtrack release thing better than you.