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Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 - Zombies "Astra Malorum" (Original Soundtrack)

Astra Malorum Original Soundtrack

Platforms: PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
Year: 2025
Catalog Number: N/A
Published by: Activision

Number of Files: 12
Total Filesize: 61 MB (MP3), 382 MB (FLAC)
Date Added: Jun 14th, 2026
Album type: Soundtrack
Uploaded by: Kazaki123

Description

Astra Malorum (Original Soundtrack) is constructed to mirror the psychological arc of a great Zombies run: it starts by grounding you in something familiar and human, then steadily trades that comfort for scale, dread, and momentum until you’re operating on pure pattern-recognition and instinct. That’s a perfect fit for Astra Malorum as a setting—an observatory built for mapping the heavens, now repurposed into a hostile, Dark Aether–touched space where “reading the sky” becomes inseparable from staying alive. The album’s sequencing feels intentional in that way: it doesn’t just present cues as background music, it presents them as phases—orientation, escalation, mechanism, consequence, and aftermath—so the soundtrack doubles as a musical blueprint for how the map wants you to feel while you push deeper and the run tightens around you.

The album opens by anchoring the experience emotionally before it accelerates structurally. “Pareidolia (Remastered, 2025)” reintroduces a classic Zombies motif as the thesis: the mind’s need to find patterns, meaning, and certainty—exactly the reflex Astra Malorum’s setting invites when you’re surrounded by celestial symbols, strange machinery, and the sense that the environment is trying to be “read.” From there, the soundtrack shifts into the practical rhythm of play: “Astra Malorum Rounds” locks into the forward-driving cadence that makes each wave feel like a countdown, while “The Great Beyond” widens the frame so the space outside the observatory becomes part of the pressure—wonder and isolation at the same time, the kind of atmosphere that makes every quiet moment feel like the calm before a new spike in threat.

As the run “deepens,” the music increasingly treats the observatory like a system you operate under stress. “The Orrey” (orrery) leans into rotation and clockwork motion, an audible counterpart to a map identity built around celestial order and mechanism—where progress feels like getting the right pieces aligned, powered, or sequenced while the undead refuse to give you time to think. That tension snaps into consequence with “Astra Malorum Deathsong,” a short, ritual-like punctuation that feels less like a song and more like an omen—what happens when the map’s logic and the combat loop collide and you lose control. “The Planets Align” follows as the counterpoint: the moment when the machinery does agree with you, when alignment stops being a metaphor and becomes the sensation of a system clicking into place.

From there, the album alternates between environment and obsession—exactly how Zombies run feels when you’re no longer merely surviving, but chasing something. “Welcome to Mars” and “Cydonian Sunset” play like threshold and aftermath cues: a shift into stranger territory and then the eerie calm that follows, where the world feels vast but your problems remain brutally immediate. The record then brings its central idea back in a changed form with “Pareidolia (Astra Malorum Mix),” which works as a narrative hinge: familiar material, re-contextualized—less like remembrance and more like contamination, as if the map has taken a known Zombies signature and tuned it to Astra Malorum’s specific flavor of cosmic dread. The closing stretch—“The Observatory,” “NGC 246,” and “Astra Malorum Outro”—returns to the heart of the setting and leaves you with the album’s final impression: observation turning into intrusion, cataloged astronomy turning into iconography, and an ending that feels like aftermath rather than closure, the way Zombies stories tend to imply the place persists even after your run ends.

Credits
Artist:
Kevin Sherwood, Elena Siegman (01)
Brian Tuey (02~05, 07, 08, 10, 12)
Tori Letzler (06, 11)
Brian Tuey, Elena Siegman (09)

Composer:
Kevin Sherwood (01)
Brian Tuey (02~05, 08, 10, 12)
Tori Letzler (06, 11)
Brian Tuey, Kevin Sherwood (07, 09)

Performer:
Elena Siegman (vocals) (01, 09)

Producer:
Kevin Sherwood (01)
Brian Tuey (02~05, 07~10, 12)
Tori Letzler (06, 11)

Label / Publisher: Activision
℗/©: ℗ 2025 Activision; © 2025 Activision
UPC: 0199891149919

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