the covenant: "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!....how many chiefs is that?" random Brute: "bruh...don't ask me....I just shoot humans and shit" The Arbiter: "uh Chief...how many is that?" Master Chief: "five, your off by one" the covenant: "oh right........FUCK!" Master Chief: "better, now hold still while I kick yo fucking asses!"
Naturally a bit messy in places, however more parts fit really really well together than you might think. a bit more fine tuning would make this sound incredible
The layering is insane. Like each theme by itself is cool, but there's a constant buildup from each song switching off between the main idea of the songs
@@Alex-js5lg I remember when I first played Halo 2 I was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO MUCH MORE AWESOME THAN THE FIRST ONE Especially the destruction of vehicles and damage
This is what happens when you have a good plan for making variants of the same song The composers (and Steve Vai for Halo 2) did a great job on making the song perfect in every instance and that's why they fit together
Yeah I thought exactly this, the timing of their seperate composition works together perfectly and that really, REALLY says something for how these different musical scores were created. It’s almost supernatural, something you’d see in nature
Right? I figured I'd already heard the best version of the Halo theme via 3 and Infinite. Turns out, when you add em all together you get and even better Halo theme lol. How the fuck
The perfect theme doesnt exist- EVERY Cortana, simultaneously: “You might want to sit down.” “You might want to sit down.” “You might want to sit down.” “You might want to sit down.” “You might want to sit down.” “You might want to sit down.”
Steve Vai definitely the greatest pick of all time for video game music features! When I saw the original footage of him in the studio ripping that shit I had so many goosebumps. my mom met him back in the day while working for TWA and got a free concert ticket from him LOL, if only I was her 😂
@@effortlessproductions I’m so glad I got to see that video before it got deleted after a very short time… felt like my childhood was given some sort of closure
Why the hell does this work so well, it has no right to but yet it does. Not only that but it could be refined even further! I imagine this playing at the climax of the series finale as chief once again ignores impossible odds
the beauty of music when you have same time signature and same key you get perfect overlap no matter what..... it is no secret that is just reall music.
How can you believe that? 343 doesn't inspire any confidence with it's handling of Halo. 4 was mediocre, 5 was super disappointing and Infinite's campaign was okay but they completely dropped the ball with the multiplayer... also they took Reach's multiplayer and replaced it with modern garbage.
@@jackdabean2 Not really..... it's playerbase is completely dead for one. It has the potential to be like Halo 3 or Reach or 2, but there are just some things that need a bit of cleaning up.
Might I recommend Two Steps From Hell? Amazing orchestral and choir work, mostly known from their music that ends up in trailers like Aquaman. "Impossible" in particular really shows off a lot of different genres
Okay I love the composers and Bungie too, but this was most certainly not on purpose. What they did was keep it consistent. The main theme is so good, there's no reason to change it. Just add new instrumentation to build up its prominence with each game. Layering it all over each other will have always matched up well because they were always consistent with the theme, regardless of their intent.
@@bethwalker5326 Incorrect. Adding context to why we like things is good. "It's just a TH-cam comment bro you don't have to over explain it, you don't have to ruin it with so many words"
it's like each song is a segment of a grander whole, each song adding small beats and background noise only for it to all collapse together, it's spectacular, and I mean that in the full meaning of the word
I'm glad you clarified you meant it in the full meaning of the word, because I didn't want to assume you were short-changing us with your use of a particular word
Simply beautiful, true syncronization on the very fabric of a theme. Never have I thought guitars, choirs, drums, pianos, brasses and strings would go so perfectly together
Metal is the closest thing to classical orchestral music that the modern world has created, try and seek more of the crossovers out! Metallica has done a couole of albums with a full Orchestra. The sounds compliment eachother strangely well!
This is absolutely beautiful in every way. I was expecting a bunch of off-note singing, and music but no.. I was greeted by something beyong my expectations.
@@qrowing You're correct but the Scarabs were spaced out on a decently sized map. Admittedly when I typed that comment out, I was thinking of the final two scrabs you fought in Halo 3 before entering the Ark Control room. Now imagine 4 more scarabs in that small arena. Mixed with all the flying and ground vehicles.. I would think the 360 back then would have a tough time doing all of that.
This song embodies when your entire team is dead in big team battle, and you're being hunted down, but you have the flag and are a point away from victory.
This was their plan all along, to make all these separate themes in the hope that someone would combine them all, creating the most epic experience ever
@@spartanc173 exactly youtube removed the dislike yet theres lemmings with no brain who just go look it shows no dislikes only like has to be good..... meanwjile walks right into bottomless pit!!
The ending is literally perfect. Throughout it all you can hear the various themes come to their peak and then at the end just one remains, closing out the previously boisterous music.
@@CatsAreAmazing8187 in the general sense of the musical world he is unknown. Obviously not within the overlap created by gamers and the larger social effect of Halo over the decades, but overall he is not a household name. Most assume it was a variety of creators rather than a single composer adapting his style and pieces over the years. Sorry if my initial comment seemed pretentious/undermining of Marty :)
@@equivalentconcept1403 it’s actually the halo rings song, that’s why in halo four we hear a small glimpse of this song with the ring is shown. That’s why reach and odst didn’t have it, because its story wasn’t tied to the ring
It's also in the same time signature and tempo, so it's almost perfectly lined up. Some things just happen to be a bit shorter, so it gets a bit muddy near the end. Only a little bit though lol, it's still amazing
1:00 leading into the beginning of 1:10 is totally the highlight for me. That's when it really gets going, that's the moment Chief turns on the ignition in the Warthog. This is like the Warthog Run Theme of all Warthog Run Themes! The guitar, the percussion, the strings, everything is all slowly building up, and then punches it! Boom! Off we go! I didn't think this theme could get much more grandiose than what it already was. Turns out I was wrong. I want this to be the new theme now lol. Just clean it up a little near the end and it's absolutely fucking perfect. This has absolutely no reason to work this well. Hell, it SHOULDN'T work...but, it just does lol. I can't believe it! This is totally the Halo theme I'm gonna listen to from now on
I completely agree. Theres just something with the slow crescendo at that point slowly building up the instruments. Between the percussion and guitars alone it's just absolutely stunning. Throw in the cellos and high strings mixed with the euphoniums and trombones it's just... AGH I love it so much
*Covenant post-mission briefing* Elite: You will speak of what has happened, Unggoy. Grunt: *looking up with intense fear in his eyes* *this theme plays*
@@ZeSgtSchultz this gives me the mental image of a allied Grunt riding shotgun in a Warthog having the time of his life, heck he'd probably feel invincible fighting *alongside* the demon
Who knew when you overlap every Halo theme, you could get a masterpiece like this? This is what's going to play in my head every time I do Halo 3's warthog run. (I feel the same as the person below me.)
I know it probably isn’t true, but I imagine them doing this on purpose, so it all blends so perfectly together into one great and amazing masterpiece of music.
Sometimes in the process of making music some parts of the track are not used because they dont sound as good as they should be. However, these elements are still made to fit the song, and the story music tells. I think they used these scraps to other songs, with simmilar or even the same rate of BPM (beats per minute). And because of it, it all fits well?
It's most likely done on purpose. For them to have all the same "spirit", the composers probably used the same scales, tempo and chord progression for all these music pieces. That's how they fit so nicely
There were _some_ moments where I felt there was too much happening at once, but the fact that so many songs can work even if played simultaneously is so insanely impressive that I'm struggling to find words for it.
Every time I forget why I love Halo, I just listen to the soundtracks and immediately remember. Same with Mass Effect. Anybody who says the music can't make a video game better hasn't played either.
Hearing it go from messy and unorganized to uniform and power is better than sex Edit: 3:30 *holy shit* idk why but hearing everything but the guitar cut out made me cry a little bit
This has no reason to work, this has no reason to sound even REMOTELY good, however, it fucking slaps, it cured my headache, and sounds absolutely 100% balls to the walls amazing. Thank you for putting this in my life.
This is bringing on levels of nostalgia previously never thought possible. I love Halo. Halo wars, take em or leave em, but the main storyline was amazing.
I've never played Halo. Never really had a chance. The original PlayStation was my intro to gaming (rented), then we got the Gamecube, so I grew up playing games like Mario, Zelda, and Crash Bandicoot, and the closest I got to Halo was the Metroid Prime games. We did have an XBox for a few years, but I was too young for Halo at the time. But it's rare to hear a theme so well put together as this one. Don't know who the credit for the OG theme goes to, but congratulations on making such an iconic piece.
Gave me the image of a bunch of Orchestras each playing one of the Halo Themes all at the same time. But they were all sitting around a single guitarist on his own little stage. This is really cool.
Nonono, TWO Guitarists, whoever did the original, and Mick motherfucking Gordon both shredding together after learning the Mjolnir off by heart, ready to rip and tear into those Guitars to help Finish Our Fight Mick is too talented to not be involved in said Orchestra, and we cannot exclude the original Guitarist, the two of them would amplify this SO hard!
You know I always thought to myself that they were recreations of the same song just with different elements to make them unique. Now I know that what I thought was indeed true and only makes me love these themes more than I already did.
Didnt think they'd overlap very well but the mixing made this feel like a big beautiful grand orchestra performed all the different versions together. Amazing
i was expecting pure chaos, but although I could definitely hear cacophony in there at times, it was surprisingly well-synced. It was cool to hear some themes end as the rest kept going. Halo's the greatest video game score I know - all of them, and some of the best music in general.
When every version of Master Chief is coming to kick your ass.
You know you screwed up
the covenant: "FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!....how many chiefs is that?"
random Brute: "bruh...don't ask me....I just shoot humans and shit"
The Arbiter: "uh Chief...how many is that?"
Master Chief: "five, your off by one"
the covenant: "oh right........FUCK!"
Master Chief: "better, now hold still while I kick yo fucking asses!"
But it includes TV version so you at least get a kill
@@robertopineda5895 right before you get obliterated. >_
halo 5 chief came for the drinks
This is definitely the most halo song I've ever heard. John Halo would be proud.
Fucking John halo 😂
John Sierra
MasterChief's full name is John Sierra Halo
117 likes, Can’t ruin it
@Overlord Vera Definitely true, I mean you get more Halo per Halo, am I right?
It's as if a million solo's, all shredding in unison across the universe, and were suddenly ratified simultaneously into the halls of butt rock fame.
Butt rock best rock
Probably
... Did you try to do a obi-won quote but altered?
@@ScalyRaptor1944 super altered 🤣
You have good words, I like the way you think 👊😊
@@ScalyRaptor1944 They are altering the quote. Pray they don’t alter it further.
"Sir permission to use that guitar."
"For what purpose?"
"To drop a sick ass tune."
"Permission granted."
Legend has it, when a man dies, his voice joins the choir
Just like with Exim Panshard's mask!
You know what I want to accept this as my new head canon.
And a chorus is about to be made
@@Helmet_enthusiast... that is the smoothest way of starting a genocide I have ever seen, well played
Spartans never die
This feels like what would play during Chief's very last Warthog Run.
It would fit so well. Kind of like reflecting on all the missions he has went on and all the previous games.
Whatever halo infinites final dlc is in the “ten year plan” better end with a warthog run for the ages
@@wesleyridge9696 there is going to be a Halo 7
@@Funkability615 I know but I just want infinite to end with a warthog run for the ages
@@Funkability615 in true Bungie fashion
Naturally a bit messy in places, however more parts fit really really well together than you might think. a bit more fine tuning would make this sound incredible
Idk I consider that part, the Chaos of War.
I think the muddy and chugging parts just make it sound more intense
Maybe they plan to combine in a halo game later on
Wrong it's not messy the slightest fix your ears and taste in hearing music remix pieces
Yeah 2:50 - 3:15 is kinda rough but the majority of the song before that works really well
The layering is insane. Like each theme by itself is cool, but there's a constant buildup from each song switching off between the main idea of the songs
It evokes a feeling of constant building and ascension and epicness
Han zimmer is good at that.
And I agree it does do a great job
Adds flavor and tension
when the guitar came in at 0:26 I knew this wasn't just a meme.
it's a masterpiece.
but still a meme but one that's truly on the levels of LASO
Yes
Just the mjolnir mix RIPPING it thru the whole thing is ART
🌟It's not a meme, it's a masterpiece🌟
(JK I hate Jellybean)
Masterchiefpiece
I love how halo 2 just takes the stage and you can easily hear it throughout the entire theme
thats steve vai's genius guitar play for you
I don't think I've played a halo since Halo 4... this is an incredible reminder that Halo 2 was one of the best original scores for a game ever.
@@Alex-js5lg The best. Though, that is opinion based. Imagine what it could have been without a shortcutted development time
@@Alex-js5lg
I remember when I first played Halo 2 I was like
HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO MUCH MORE AWESOME THAN THE FIRST ONE
Especially the destruction of vehicles and damage
Halo 2 was more fun than real life. Crazy days.
I love how it's just 90% halo 2 and 10% halo 3
Nah nah nah. 10% Halo Combat Evolved in there too.
Said this shit out loud and then read the comment. Still fire tho
more like 90% halo 2 and 4% halo 4 and 6% halo 3
Lmfao, it's cause the halo is what made the theme so famous. Then you got the warthog coming in second in terms of popularity
I heard the reach opening
This is what happens when you have a good plan for making variants of the same song
The composers (and Steve Vai for Halo 2) did a great job on making the song perfect in every instance and that's why they fit together
Agreed
Halo 4: ha ha, no
Yeah I thought exactly this, the timing of their seperate composition works together perfectly and that really, REALLY says something for how these different musical scores were created. It’s almost supernatural, something you’d see in nature
@@picklesandnori halo 4 is a beauty by itself
@@Vallery_ said like 10 people.
This is how you know you've made masterpieces, when you can play them all at once and it sounds even better than by itself
Right? I figured I'd already heard the best version of the Halo theme via 3 and Infinite. Turns out, when you add em all together you get and even better Halo theme lol. How the fuck
@@rileymachelle4088 It was an Easter egg they planned for us knowing someone would do this
I'm currently listening to this while making the armor
It's called being in the same key signature/time
@@sigmachad1177 Thx Sigma Chad 117 your doing gods work!
I want to hear this played live by an orchestra and choir. I want to be overwhelmed and feel like I've just been blasted through space.
Go listen to some DOOM music at max volume that should have the desired effect
I saw a Twenty One Pilots concert. They played the theme song to intro their song. Best day of my life.
The perfect theme doesnt exist-
EVERY Cortana, simultaneously:
“You might want to sit down.”
“You might want to sit down.”
“You might want to sit down.”
“You might want to sit down.”
“You might want to sit down.”
“You might want to sit down.”
As all of the versions of chief walk in with a grunts head.
um actally she apears in 7 games:
1,2,3,4,5, infinite, and reach
you just put 6
@@sandwichgaming1923 🤓
@@bedeoof5948 HAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This should play during the end credits of the final Halo game after beating Laso. This represents Halo as a whole.
Agreed
The final Halo game was #3
@@cosmictraveler731 preach
Laso sounds like hell
@@gizmo9836 A beautiful hell that you learn to appreciate by the end of it.
I LOVE that even with all 6 themes mashed and remixed together you can STILL hear Steve Vai's Mjolnir Mix bleed through...
Steve Vai definitely the greatest pick of all time for video game music features! When I saw the original footage of him in the studio ripping that shit I had so many goosebumps. my mom met him back in the day while working for TWA and got a free concert ticket from him LOL, if only I was her 😂
@@effortlessproductions I’m so glad I got to see that video before it got deleted after a very short time… felt like my childhood was given some sort of closure
Why the hell does this work so well, it has no right to but yet it does. Not only that but it could be refined even further!
I imagine this playing at the climax of the series finale as chief once again ignores impossible odds
I know right!
Halo never dies.. it's just missing in action
the beauty of music when you have same time signature and same key you get perfect overlap no matter what..... it is no secret that is just reall music.
"Oh man, 15 covenant supercarriers? Wish they'd sent more"
When the creator of this listened to the final product - "Damn I'm good."
Meanwhile ...
Halo 2 Theme music - "Finally, a worthy opponent"
One day, we'll get a Halo game that hits the same as Halo 3 and Reach.
And I expect to hear something like this when it comes.
Good to see someone with good taste
Infinite is doing a good job so far imo
How can you believe that? 343 doesn't inspire any confidence with it's handling of Halo. 4 was mediocre, 5 was super disappointing and Infinite's campaign was okay but they completely dropped the ball with the multiplayer... also they took Reach's multiplayer and replaced it with modern garbage.
.* not ?
@@jackdabean2 Not really..... it's playerbase is completely dead for one. It has the potential to be like Halo 3 or Reach or 2, but there are just some things that need a bit of cleaning up.
Expected noise pollution. Received masterpiece.
I’m convinced the composers knew what they were doing and saw this coming
Yoooo that overlap at 0:34 is fire
ikr? So good!
@@tallguy779 Yooo, I just waited for it... Goosebumps !
The One Final Effort jiggle with the Mjornir Mix riff is something I didn't know I needed until now.
And 0:47 to 1:03. So fucking clean.
@@SkyNinja759 someone made one a while ago. It kicks ass but it could use a hq redo
Fucking awesome. This slaps harder than when Master Chief gave the Covenant back their bomb.
Yea I mean for a brick he did fly pretty good
Nah.
THIS IS THE BOMB!
what about when that admiral told the marines to arrest chief and everyone just stood around like.
nahhhh... i...im goood.
Thank You
@@JS-rv3et that’s just because chief holds more respect than him, and he’s the one in the power armor😂
you know marty o donnell is a legend when you can mash a bunch of his songs and it sounds incredible still
And Steve Vai
And Michael Salvatori.
Not really, this works because it's basically just the same piece with different instrumentation.
@@gorgolyt and? Why do 🤓 have to come in like "people are enjoying this well that can't be!"
@@Nzzertral You can still enjoy something without making up hyperbolic nonsense about it. Go cry.
The only piece of music that could hope to pull off a choir and electric guitar winding up at the same time
Might I recommend Two Steps From Hell? Amazing orchestral and choir work, mostly known from their music that ends up in trailers like Aquaman. "Impossible" in particular really shows off a lot of different genres
I'll check out Two Steps from Hell!
Archange from Ace Combat 7 pulls it off pretty well too IMO
@@n1thecaptain965 YES!
Xenoblade 1 has a fantastic soundtrack that's also orchestra rock. I suggest checking it out
They did this on purpose didn't they,
legends.
Halo legends one might say.
Okay I love the composers and Bungie too, but this was most certainly not on purpose. What they did was keep it consistent. The main theme is so good, there's no reason to change it. Just add new instrumentation to build up its prominence with each game. Layering it all over each other will have always matched up well because they were always consistent with the theme, regardless of their intent.
@@writershard5065 bro, you just wrote a whole paragraph just to (no offense) kinda ruin a comment. Not trying to be rude like I said.
@@bethwalker5326 Incorrect. Adding context to why we like things is good.
"It's just a TH-cam comment bro you don't have to over explain it, you don't have to ruin it with so many words"
@@jacobkarbacka2166 How am I being a coward
You have been granted the highest honor I can bestow, a place in my “Actual good songs” playlist.
hey sniper tf2,how things are going in the game ?
but yea,this song does slaps hard.
@@foodaah Its getting better but still almost unplayable. (cus bots)
thanks sniper tf2
ARE YOU REAL!? OR ARE YOU A BOT!?
@@THEREALPEENMASTEROFNARNIA does it look like i am spinning while my back is broken and repeatedly cheering your shot?
The way the guitars duel each other for the solo is sick!
THANK THE TH-cam ALGORITHM GODS FOR BRINGING ME THIS MASTERPIECE
SAME!
👆
Same here, especially since I just got back into playing Halo a few days ago
Same here my fellow Spartan!
1:44 to 1:52 is legendary, the violin mixed with the drums and brass is just perfect.
I say it’s Laso.
I don't care, this is playing at my funeral so I can go into the afterlife like a complete badass.
If that happens you can get a double whammy and have halo 2 chief greet you into delta halo with weapon.
You won't die. You'll just be missing in action
Yessir!!
What’s better than 1 halo theme? Why not all 6?
Halo 3 theme is my favorite
destroyer 66 halo 3 theme is also my fav and halo 3 is my fav halo game.
You are picking the best Halo theme? Why not Zoidberg?
There will be chaos.
All 9 if you count the Gungnir, Scorpion and Scarab mixes
it's like each song is a segment of a grander whole, each song adding small beats and background noise only for it to all collapse together, it's spectacular, and I mean that in the full meaning of the word
You took the words outta my mouth
I'm glad you clarified you meant it in the full meaning of the word, because I didn't want to assume you were short-changing us with your use of a particular word
@@Morbutt lmao
@@Morbutt Well, sometimes words fail to describe just how good something is lol
Simply beautiful, true syncronization on the very fabric of a theme. Never have I thought guitars, choirs, drums, pianos, brasses and strings would go so perfectly together
Metal is the closest thing to classical orchestral music that the modern world has created, try and seek more of the crossovers out! Metallica has done a couole of albums with a full Orchestra. The sounds compliment eachother strangely well!
@@ryanparker4996 Mettalica isn’t all that great anymore tbh
Why wouldnt those go well together? They are some of the most common instruments
@@johnnymermaid2446 well I kind of meant that guitar would go so well with all the others, but I guess I didn't word it so well
@@Nameless2004 thats a real nice opinion, however I am going to disregard it and fart in your general direction
This is absolutely beautiful in every way.
I was expecting a bunch of off-note singing, and music but no..
I was greeted by something beyong my expectations.
"we're you blinded by its majesty?"
@@flipperman182 I was. Three times
@@flipperman182 underrated comment
“Beyong”
It’s epic
For some reason I feel like they designed all of the songs to where they can sync them up in one recording and have them sound so good all together.
True Right?
They probably all have the same tempo and base rhythm
@@CLSHR and structure and chrod progression
@@seeker296 and staggered timing on accent features
It’s basically the same core song but with several variations throughout the first 3 games
1:45 HOLY FREAKING DOGSHIT THIS IS A MASTERPIECE
6 scarab! I repeat 6 scarab!
@🍔DB8🍔 The 360 back then would just give up trying to process that lag fest lol
@@Zackarco Weren't there like 4-5 in Reach? There's that really small warthog/mongoose run toward the end, and the 360 handle it just fine.
No.... It's a MASTERCHIEF
@@qrowing You're correct but the Scarabs were spaced out on a decently sized map. Admittedly when I typed that comment out, I was thinking of the final two scrabs you fought in Halo 3 before entering the Ark Control room. Now imagine 4 more scarabs in that small arena. Mixed with all the flying and ground vehicles.. I would think the 360 back then would have a tough time doing all of that.
Love how the Steve Vai's guitar is still one of the first and last things you hear
Close to 20 years later, it's still too darn good too
This song embodies when your entire team is dead in big team battle, and you're being hunted down, but you have the flag and are a point away from victory.
69th like lets goooo
That’s when you get teamkilled by someone else who takes all the credit. It’s the sole reason I don’t play CTF anymore
this also applies when we steal an scp -serpents hand
@@robinlee1032 I don’t think you understand the assignment, or do I not understand the assignment?
@@leetskingdom3988 nah the guy who killed me was on MY team. I did all the work but he killed me anyway
My ears have been graced with this masterpiece for 4 minutes and 20 seconds holy shit
holy hell. I didn't notice that it was 420.
As the elder gods chanted the first 420
They uddered
NICE
what do you mean it was for me 1 hour
I’m the 69th like🎉
I can't believe that my mashup blew up after 7 years. I should probably redo it at some point to include the Halo 5 and Halo Infinite themes.
thanks for blessing us with this absolute masterpiece man 🫡
PLEASE DO, THIS IS GLORIOUS
If you find a way to add some of the female choir versions of the main motif that'd be very interesting
Please. This is a glorious piece of work.
Yes.
This was their plan all along, to make all these separate themes in the hope that someone would combine them all, creating the most epic experience ever
I now love to think that they did intended this
I never thought Steve's guitar and Marty's Piano together would work so perfectly.
Some parts need some fine tuning, but HOLY HECK when it hits, it hits so hard!!!!!!
The Halo theme will always give me goosebumps. The soundtracks to these games are legendary.
The violins at 1:30 with the brass is so triumphant and badass feeling
Oh my goodness this video has zero dislikes and 117 likes. It’s beautiful
I was about to comment this
As it should be
Imagine being able to see dislikes.
I miss dislikes :(
@@spartanc173 exactly youtube removed the dislike yet theres lemmings with no brain who just go look it shows no dislikes only like has to be good..... meanwjile walks right into bottomless pit!!
The ending is literally perfect. Throughout it all you can hear the various themes come to their peak and then at the end just one remains, closing out the previously boisterous music.
O'Donnel is one of the most underappreciated geniuses in music production and composition
Not at all, y’all need to quit that “X mf is underrated/underappreciated” shit man.
@@CatsAreAmazing8187 in the general sense of the musical world he is unknown. Obviously not within the overlap created by gamers and the larger social effect of Halo over the decades, but overall he is not a household name. Most assume it was a variety of creators rather than a single composer adapting his style and pieces over the years.
Sorry if my initial comment seemed pretentious/undermining of Marty :)
@@PBRatLord Any self respecting Halo fan knows about the composer... He's more household than the vast majority of videogame composers out there.
@@wiertech9 Please see my previous comment before adding your own. :)
The guitar and the piano work so well together and the choirs overlap makes it sound like an echo
The piano plus guitar combo is honestly the best thing I’ve ever heard.
This is criminally underrated and it feels like the pinnacle of Halo, gaming, and story telling as a whole. Absolutely beautiful
Eat your heart out, John Williams
everyone think the Shakespeare good until the Layered Halo Music walk in
No
Stop saying everything is underrated. Everyone loves it! I don't see a single bad comment about it lol
@@hunglongfar underrated as in it doesn’t have as much notoriety as it should. Doesn’t mean people think it’s bad lol
This is what should be playing in those “Halo campaigns if MC was lore accurate” videos
It works because it’s all in the same key, and each version uses mostly different instruments, however I don’t think odst is in it.
ODST doesn’t use the Halo theme :) same with Reach
Because it’s the Master Chief’s theme song.
@@equivalentconcept1403 it’s actually the halo rings song, that’s why in halo four we hear a small glimpse of this song with the ring is shown. That’s why reach and odst didn’t have it, because its story wasn’t tied to the ring
It's also in the same time signature and tempo, so it's almost perfectly lined up. Some things just happen to be a bit shorter, so it gets a bit muddy near the end. Only a little bit though lol, it's still amazing
1:00 leading into the beginning of 1:10 is totally the highlight for me. That's when it really gets going, that's the moment Chief turns on the ignition in the Warthog. This is like the Warthog Run Theme of all Warthog Run Themes! The guitar, the percussion, the strings, everything is all slowly building up, and then punches it! Boom! Off we go! I didn't think this theme could get much more grandiose than what it already was. Turns out I was wrong. I want this to be the new theme now lol. Just clean it up a little near the end and it's absolutely fucking perfect.
This has absolutely no reason to work this well. Hell, it SHOULDN'T work...but, it just does lol. I can't believe it! This is totally the Halo theme I'm gonna listen to from now on
I completely agree. Theres just something with the slow crescendo at that point slowly building up the instruments. Between the percussion and guitars alone it's just absolutely stunning. Throw in the cellos and high strings mixed with the euphoniums and trombones it's just... AGH I love it so much
When everyone in the school choir gets it right:
*Covenant post-mission briefing*
Elite: You will speak of what has happened, Unggoy.
Grunt: *looking up with intense fear in his eyes*
*this theme plays*
"We didnt ever think wed actually WORK with the demon...."
@@ZeSgtSchultz this gives me the mental image of a allied Grunt riding shotgun in a Warthog having the time of his life, heck he'd probably feel invincible fighting *alongside* the demon
Ha run
Me hearing this in csgo ha I'm in danger
headcannon: this is what the Covenant thinks of when they hear “Master Chief”
Hate, fear, and a reluctant respect, one who turns the tide of so many battles gets called *Demon* for good reason
The perfect masterpiece of a masterpiece doesn't exi-
This is just what the covenant hears every single time they see chief
Man! That part where Mjolnir Mix, the drums, and the piano kick in all at once is the absolute BEST thing I have ever heard.
imagine being a grunt invading Earth and then hearing this from around the corner
Nah nah, 6 Pelicans flying in, each one playing a different one of these themes...
@@StartledOctopus OH MA LORD I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS XD
Just Master Chief grappling around the corner with a SPNKR
It just slowly gets louder as you see a mongoose with a green unit on it
@@StartledOctopus each carrying 1 mc
Who knew when you overlap every Halo theme, you could get a masterpiece like this?
This is what's going to play in my head every time I do Halo 3's warthog run.
(I feel the same as the person below me.)
I know it probably isn’t true, but I imagine them doing this on purpose, so it all blends so perfectly together into one great and amazing masterpiece of music.
I feel like they did though.
Sometimes in the process of making music some parts of the track are not used because they dont sound as good as they should be. However, these elements are still made to fit the song, and the story music tells. I think they used these scraps to other songs, with simmilar or even the same rate of BPM (beats per minute). And because of it, it all fits well?
It's most likely done on purpose. For them to have all the same "spirit", the composers probably used the same scales, tempo and chord progression for all these music pieces. That's how they fit so nicely
There were _some_ moments where I felt there was too much happening at once, but the fact that so many songs can work even if played simultaneously is so insanely impressive that I'm struggling to find words for it.
There’s something about this armour.
The Face.
This Colour.
Every time I forget why I love Halo, I just listen to the soundtracks and immediately remember. Same with Mass Effect. Anybody who says the music can't make a video game better hasn't played either.
3:33 everything complements each other so perfectly it's just beutieful
What happens if you overlap every halo theme?
Me: Something magical!
One of the few times I’ve teared up to a song, partly because of nostalgia, mostly because it’s beautiful
Hearing it go from messy and unorganized to uniform and power is better than sex
Edit: 3:30 *holy shit* idk why but hearing everything but the guitar cut out made me cry a little bit
this is unreal it goes so well i was dumb struck blinded by its majesty
This has no reason to work, this has no reason to sound even REMOTELY good, however, it fucking slaps, it cured my headache, and sounds absolutely 100% balls to the walls amazing. Thank you for putting this in my life.
I was expecting the spirit of fire at one point.
Hearing this masterpiece sent chills down my spine. Didn’t know what to expect clicking this but I’m glad I did
same, ane i hardly get chills for anything
Oh they absolutely made them all sound perfect together
This is bringing on levels of nostalgia previously never thought possible. I love Halo. Halo wars, take em or leave em, but the main storyline was amazing.
This honestly needs more likes
Yup, 2.9k isnt enough
You get a f*cking masterpiece, that’s what happens! This shit goes so damn hard. F*CK YEAH!
This is actually insanely good. So much nostalgia and hype. I feel like a kid all over again, staying up all night and playing every game.
“Master Chief, what are you doing on that ship?”
“Sir. Finishing this fight.”
I want to see how chaotic the sheet music for this would look
I played Halo from about 5 years old beginning in 2003. It's my childhood game/franchise, and this gives me massive goosebumps.
Now you know what to play at the final mission of the final game of the franchise.
Words alone can't describe how uplifting this feels in my heart.
“Master chief. Mind telling me what you’re doing with that guitar?”
“Sir. Finishing this song.”
I can not express the feelings I get when hearing this
Goddamn, this unironically slaps. Props to the OP.
1:45 is def my favourite part
I've never played Halo. Never really had a chance. The original PlayStation was my intro to gaming (rented), then we got the Gamecube, so I grew up playing games like Mario, Zelda, and Crash Bandicoot, and the closest I got to Halo was the Metroid Prime games. We did have an XBox for a few years, but I was too young for Halo at the time. But it's rare to hear a theme so well put together as this one. Don't know who the credit for the OG theme goes to, but congratulations on making such an iconic piece.
Gave me the image of a bunch of Orchestras each playing one of the Halo Themes all at the same time. But they were all sitting around a single guitarist on his own little stage.
This is really cool.
Nonono, TWO Guitarists, whoever did the original, and Mick motherfucking Gordon both shredding together after learning the Mjolnir off by heart, ready to rip and tear into those Guitars to help Finish Our Fight
Mick is too talented to not be involved in said Orchestra, and we cannot exclude the original Guitarist, the two of them would amplify this SO hard!
You know I always thought to myself that they were recreations of the same song just with different elements to make them unique. Now I know that what I thought was indeed true and only makes me love these themes more than I already did.
Didnt think they'd overlap very well but the mixing made this feel like a big beautiful grand orchestra performed all the different versions together.
Amazing
i was expecting pure chaos, but although I could definitely hear cacophony in there at times, it was surprisingly well-synced. It was cool to hear some themes end as the rest kept going. Halo's the greatest video game score I know - all of them, and some of the best music in general.
This was in the "New for you" tab on TH-cam, and this holds up to it lmao, did not expect to be blown away by this. I don't even play Halo lol
You really really should. It's still imo the single best first person shooter campaign ever. At least in the master chief collection.
you’re missing out
Me neither.
Whats halo
@@bayoft6692 It's either that thing above angel's heads in pictures or just the name of a Beyonce song.
When your crush says yes, your dad comes back with the milk, and you become forklift certified all in one day
A true masterpiece to every gamer who ever heard of the franchise
This does put a smile on my face in these dark times, thank you, i shall finish this fight for you
Can I offer you an egg in these trying times?
The theme song of a generation ready and willing to fight for what they want.
well i can ditto that emotion.
Down with the 10%ers!
“Wake me when you need me”
I'm convinced that they're mad to be overlapped
POV: you've played every halo game and now your the REAL master chief