Metroid/Awesome Music

Sidescrollers

 * Samus's Fanfare.
 * Kraid's Lair. Or any of its awesome remixes.
 * And there's the original Brinstar theme.
 * Give it up for the original ending theme. Made even better by Super Smash Bros. and Metroid: Zero Mission.
 * Japanese people who had the disk system were treated to this version of the tune, which is the true original.
 * Despite being the black sheep of the series, Metroid II: Return of Samus gave us some awesome music as well...
 * One of the series most iconic themes is also one of its most awesome: the Ridley Theme.
 * Super Metroid's title music, probably still the most ominous piece ever used in the series, even after all these years.
 * In Super Metroid, the "Crateria Theme" makes a dramatic return at a critical point in the final boss battle . There isn't a player alive whose heartbeat, EEG reading and adrenaline release rates didn't all immediately synchronize with the pulsing bass rhythm, prior to.
 * The hauntingly beautiful West Maridia theme.
 * Brinstar started out good, then it got better.
 * We cannot miss mentioning Red Brinstar.
 * Lower Norfair from Super Metroid was pretty sweet.
 * How did we get this far without mentioning the Super Metroid theme? It was so good, they used it again in the E3 '10 trailer for Metroid: Other M.
 * And then of course, there's the full orchestrated version.
 * Metroid: Zero Mission right after the zero suit sequence. You've been hiding and running from space pirates when suddenly you get your power suit back and it's more powerful than ever. Cue the AWESOME music that makes you feel INVINCIBLE.
 * Which you pretty much are, at least for normal enemies.
 * DAMN STRAIGHT!!! You got a Screw Attack + Space Jump combo, a full beam which nearly kills ANYTHING, and whatever lives is frozen! Plus the Gravity suit makes you immune to EVERYTHING!!! Except damage, but it's pretty weak now.
 * Two remixes of Crateria's Caves in Zero Mission for clever purposes. During the "Solid Samus" portion of the plot, an arrangement similar to the Super Metroid version serves as the "!" music, while a sedate arrangement closer to the Corruption version plays after the guards stand down.
 * And if you didn't ever get spotted, you got this, which was a remix of this...
 * A couple from Fusion - Serris/Yakuza Boss theme and an epic remix.
 * Also, "Last Instructions", which gets its first debut with ""
 * In keeping with Fusion's Survival Horror vibe, the ambient music is very tense and ominous. Let's hear it for Sector 3 (PYR), Sector 6 (NOC), and Sector 2 (TRO).
 * When Environmental Disquiet starts playing, get scared.
 * The SA-X Approaches, which sadly, lacks the horrifying 'tap tap' of the footsteps. And you pray it doesn't turn into Escape From The SA-X...
 * X Invasion really emphasizes the horror of the X gaining access to the environmental sectors aboard BSL.
 * The mandatory Ridley theme remix: Ridley X.
 * Wait, no escape themes? For shame!
 * Mother Brain's theme song in Super Metroid as she's handing your ass to you on a silver platter. In a game full of brooding slow- to mid-paced tracks, this theme song manages to sound refreshing, if not outright sinister!

Prime Trilogy

 * Let's give Metroid Prime some love here. The Prime boss music from the first game is particularly awesome.
 * But the Prime final boss music is arguably even better.
 * The battle theme for the Plated Beetle, Sheegoth and Cloaked Sentry Droid is also a very heart-pounding beat.4
 * Don't forget Meta Ridley, who arrives on the scene with a techno remix of his old Leitmotif.
 * Prime 1's Title Screen
 * The Prime 1 and 2 menu screens. Complete with Ominous Latin Chanting!
 * Phendrana Drifts... Phendrana Drifts.
 * Underwater Frigate Reactor Core from Metroid Prime. It fit the mood, and it was beautiful.
 * Prime took the already cool Lower Norfair and remixed it for Magmoor Caverns and it was promoted to pure Awesome.
 * Any player who had sat whistling the menu screen music from Metroid Prime was made endlessly happy by the incredible end credits music. And apparently it's in the Dorian scale, too, which makes it all the more awesome.
 * Glad to see I'm not the only one who whistled to it.
 * How about the theme for Tallon Overworld? It does an awesome job of setting the mood.
 * Tallon Overworld 2 is cool as well
 * The theme for Flaahgra was glitched in the first US release for Metroid Prime causing it to repeat the first part throughout the whole battle. It wasn't until the normal English version, the Player's Choice versions and Metroid Prime: Trilogy came out until we got to hear how awesome it really was.
 * I don't see Chozo Ruins on this page. Why don't I see Chozo Ruins on this page? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Now stop starving your ears.
 * Anyone who doesn't get chills down their spine when they hear Chozo Ghosts is not even human.
 * A very calm, but still awesome Brinstar remix.
 * Which, after a certain point in the game, gets replaced by an even more awesome arrangement of a different tune.
 * A remix of the above is Torvus Bog. This troper has yet to play Metroid Prime 2 but loves how stunning this music is.
 * Red Brinstar got a similar treatment.
 * This troper loved to go to that area in Prime 2 just to hear that Red Brinstar remix. It worked perfectly for a water section.
 * Any track that immediately puts the player into paranoid mode deserves credit. Oh, and it's good too.
 * And then Prime 2 and 3 Upped the ante, making it creepy, epic, and giving you a feeling of "OH SHI-!"
 * Chozo Temple from Metroid Prime. That is all.
 * The Prime 2 title screen.
 * Hell, it's even awesome backwards.
 * Possibly because it is quite much Beeps and Boops, or because it was the graphically most awesome level (Tetris flood, glowy things and, for once in all those Metroid games taking place on half-abandoned planets, a massive sprawling city - there's few things not to like about Sanctuary Fortressin Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
 * The theme for Quadraxis also has a cool robotic sound to it.
 * Since Dark Samus is essentially Metroid Prime in a new form, her final battle music in Corruption is suitably awesome.
 * As well as when you fight her in Echoes
 * Ridley's theme remixed for the fight against Omega Ridley.
 * Prime 3's title music was missing from the honor role, but this oversight has been corrected.
 * And, one simply cannot forget Rundas' theme.
 * Nor Gandrayda's.
 * The surprise remix of Crateria's Caves in Prime 3 was undeniably crowning music of awesome, especially considering where it played.
 * Metroid Prime Trilogy's menu theme is impossibly awesome.
 * Sounds like a little bit of the Terminator theme at the start too.
 * I don't see Pinball's version of Brinstar on here. FOR SHAME.
 * Hunters may not exactly have been the best game in the series, but it did have music that earned it's place with the best of them like the Final Boss Theme and Vesper Defense Outpost.
 * The Hive Totem battle music from Prime. Short, but oh-so-awesome.

Other M

 * Remembuh Me?
 * Ridley's Theme is back and better than ever.
 * The Nightmare.
 * This song is shared by both . It is suitably frightening.
 * The Vorash, perfect for killing giant lava fish to.
 * And a remix of the Super Metroid theme.
 * The alternate title screen music that you get after beating the Playable Epilogue will get the intended emotion out of you better than anything else in the game

Other

 * Samus' own theme music is also worth a listen.
 * This theme music is just as, if not more awesome.
 * Metroid Metal is the best piece of Metroid music remixes you can get out there.
 * Although the Orchestrated version may warrant equal stock.
 * SPACE PIRATES! Why did you submit this remix as a "joke tune", virt? It's awesome!
 * Harmony of a Hunter, a two-disc tribute to the Metroid franchise as a whole. It features plenty of OverClocked Remix veterans, but of particular note is Sam Dillard's Into the Green World, an incredible symphonic remix of Green Brinstar. It doesn't stop there, however...
 * Sam Dillard's 3 mixes are among the best in the album. Besides into the Green World, he also did a medley of the ending themes, which was so well done that ACTUAL COMPOSERS COULDN'T TELL IT WAS MIDI.
 * Here are two other greats from the album: Desperation fittingly paints the picture of an heroic escape, while Melting Sun is a touching send-off to.