Echoes of the Wasteland: How Three Notes Defined Fallout’s Apocalypse

C, E flat, and E

Inon Zur’s haunting three-note motif for Fallout is more than music—it’s the soul of a broken world. Across Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, and now the 2024 Fallout TV series, these three notes echo through the radioactive wasteland, a call that every survivor knows by heart. Just three notes, but they cut through the silence of a ruined America, invo…