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== Sidescrollers ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqW2YaVAnQE Samus's Fanfare.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGKCvIrF_o Kraid's Lair]. Or any of its [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luOJNpk9I4Y awesome] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4EVut4A52c remixes].
* And there's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-2sE0Napg0 original Brinstar theme].
* Give it up for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQppamJoDqc the original ending theme]. Made even better by ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NS4DPxH4UQ Metroid: Zero Mission].
** Japanese people who had the disk system were treated to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldiDYvGvHzo 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBR7c-uYVhg awesome] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rEQVYxhlMc music] as well...
* One of the series most iconic themes is also one of its most awesome: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVtzhEe27Ro the Ridley Theme.]
* Super Metroid's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chh6RAjGohw title] music, probably still the most ominous piece ever used in the series, even after all these years.
* In ''Super Metroid'', the "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx4Gsp5rcwM Crateria Theme]" makes a dramatic return at a critical point in the final boss battle  {{spoiler|just after Mother Brain murders the Baby Metroid}}. 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  {{spoiler|blasting the everloving fuck out of Mother Brain with the newly-acquired Hyperbeam whilst screaming the blackest curses in their vocabulary}}.
* The hauntingly beautiful [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxobPQMNY_w West Maridia theme].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf4iI3kgP-o Brinstar] started out good, then [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WclO8HdIPas it got better].
* We cannot miss mentioning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyFcSHHdIQE Red Brinstar].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98RdRDaOsNg Lower Norfair] from ''Super Metroid'' was pretty sweet.
* How did we get this far without mentioning the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYsVk23oxA Super Metroid theme?] It was so good, they used it again in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWuYpTh-foM E3 '10 trailer for Metroid: Other M.]
** And then of course, there's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhAQfpbsymU 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBOE2zMxFgw&feature=related 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6UoAgAp5ck this], which was a remix of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe7Fyo2z2zs this]...
* A couple from Fusion - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp2b3EYFAXw Serris/Yakuza Boss theme] and an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbsKe-c7-Lw&fmt=18 epic remix].
** Also, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYO-qnX24o Last Instructions]", which gets its first debut with "{{spoiler|[[As You Wish|Any objections, Lady?]]}}"
** In keeping with Fusion's [[Survival Horror]] vibe, the ambient music is very tense and ominous. Let's hear it for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14CP34VmwQw&feature=related Sector 3 (PYR)], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowIikQZesk&feature=related Sector 6 (NOC)], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPsPVhWnpfg&feature=related Sector 2 (TRO)].
** When [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zUv8jdGvjM&feature=related Environmental Disquiet] starts playing, ''get scared''.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D40RHPimrKk&feature=related The SA-X Approaches], which sadly, lacks the horrifying 'tap tap' of the footsteps. And you ''pray'' it doesn't turn into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ckKjgfq2Es&feature=related Escape From The SA-X]...
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfnA6UI1_w&feature=related X Invasion] really emphasizes the horror of the X gaining access to the environmental sectors aboard BSL.
** The mandatory Ridley theme remix: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-hTk6_XngU&feature=related Ridley X].
* Wait, no [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqjO0NAhKzU escape] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0NeTjLa7s themes]? For shame!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcvJ8nzxH8c 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lfv21XfwQ8 Prime boss music] from the first game is particularly awesome.
** But the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIoLwVQJes Prime final boss music] is arguably even better.
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtz1kmO70aM battle theme for the Plated Beetle, Sheegoth and Cloaked Sentry Droid] is also a very heart-pounding beat.4
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLjibR_c4Q Don't forget Meta Ridley], who arrives on the scene with a techno remix of his old [[Leitmotif]].
* Prime 1's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL2B5euZ0Ic&fmt=18 Title Screen]
* The Prime 1 and 2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLE_PvJ5mY menu] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7uZf4uiMN8 screens]. Complete with [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbUv1hz6mE&feature=related Phendrana Drifts]... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U_tQFI4pY4&hd=1 Phendrana Drifts].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LudFV61zsaw&feature=related 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCZIb0fbt8 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBTecFA6sb4 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mziw3FQkZYg&feature=related Tallon Overworld]? It does an awesome job of setting the mood.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Ky2BMVWfs 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhnrH30411A 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. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXS3XZwPaEk Now stop starving your ears.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cWbLagjxbA Anyone who doesn't get chills down their spine when they hear Chozo Ghosts is not even human.]
* A very calm, but still awesome [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mziw3FQkZYg Brinstar remix].
** Which, after a certain point in the game, gets replaced by an even more [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Ky2BMVWfs& awesome arrangement] of a different tune.
** A remix of the above is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuPJm2XQT0A Torvus Bog]. This troper has yet to play Metroid Prime 2 but loves how stunning this music is.
* Red Brinstar got a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZX2N9_7NO8 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdebQ-y15Dg paranoid mode] deserves credit. Oh, and it's good too.
** And then Prime 2 and 3 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iSU5LPYczE Upped] the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zmbFSVAOtI&feature=related ante], making it creepy, epic, and giving you a feeling of [[Oh Crap|"OH SHI-!"]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFIa29FXfM&feature=related Chozo Temple] from Metroid Prime. That is all.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLOkc9MwFHs Prime 2 title screen].
** Hell, it's even awesome [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZYuH8RsnHc 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6OTbdgt_Ms Sanctuary Fortress]in ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''.
** The theme for Quadraxis also has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ&feature=related cool robotic sound] to it.
* Since Dark Samus is essentially Metroid Prime in a new form, her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erstB0U3wg0 final battle music] in Corruption is suitably awesome.
** As well as when you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVQ6JxQFr4&feature=related fight her in Echoes]
* Ridley's theme remixed for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQBEAfVEsSI fight against Omega Ridley].
* Prime 3's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8K4X4C6me0 title music] was missing from the honor role, but this oversight has been corrected.
* And, one simply ''cannot'' forget [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nMFLquJeCc Rundas' theme].
* Nor [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SySV9xBU6M Gandrayda's].
* The surprise [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTVDJbffZQ remix of Crateria's Caves in Prime 3] was undeniably crowning music of awesome, especially considering where it played.
* Metroid Prime Trilogy's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fciBd6GE-6g 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. '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DWRpNoP46U 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzLCJqzDHdo&feature=related the Final Boss Theme] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxEkhtWTXsg&feature=related Vesper Defense Outpost].
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89iW8BRd42I Hive Totem] battle music from ''Prime''. Short, but oh-so-awesome.

== Other M ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ Remembuh Me?]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBMSZpWPvDI Ridley's Theme is back and better than ever.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVm0nsgQzIw The Nightmare.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYXvZMkp1kM This song] is shared by both {{spoiler|the Metroid Queen and Phantoon}}. It is suitably frightening.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upu6I1Soly0 The Vorash,] perfect for killing giant lava fish to.
* And a remix of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFEY0Yuxns Super Metroid theme.]
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJUOy3lcdN4&feature=related 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.
* [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=D3RiF2r3vTY This theme music] is just as, if not more awesome.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170517030932/http://www.metroidmetal.com/ Metroid Metal] is the best piece of Metroid music remixes you can get out there.
** Although the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypdatn0tweE Orchestrated version] may warrant equal stock.
* [http://dod.redheadedblacksheep.net/past/jan05/ZZ%20virt_-_metroid_-_SPACE_PIRATES-DoD.mp3 SPACE PIRATES]{{Dead link}}! Why did you submit this remix [https://web.archive.org/web/20111026083730/http://dod.redheadedblacksheep.net/past/jan05/ as a "joke tune", virt?] It's awesome!
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121118231444/http://www.shinesparkers.net/harmonyofahunter/ 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYbARADCWo 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSJfw7p0CM 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: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WWvpZC8WRU&feature=related Desperation] fittingly paints the picture of an heroic escape, while [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbu1VdRSxBk Melting Sun] is a touching send-off to {{spoiler|Rundas}}.

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