About the Halo 4 Soundtracks

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We know there are a lot. And we know they sound awesome. This thread is not about leaked content. It is about the titles which already give clues about the story and about the situation the soundtracks stand for.

The titles of the OSTs are

-Arrival
-117
-Belly Of The Beast
-Awakening
-Faithless
-Green And Blue
-Haven
-Legacy
-Nemesis
-Immaterial
-Solace
-To Galaxy
-Revival
-Requiem
-Ascendancy
-Awakening

We can be sure that this is also the order in which they will be heard during the game. So what do they tell us?

ARRIVAL is definitely Chief and Cortana being ecnountered by the Covenant fleet above Requiem’s outer shell.
117 refers to the Master Chief. He will be awakened and back to work, there is no doubt.
BELLY OF THE BEAST can’t be anything else than Requiem’s interior. The Forward Unto Dawn will be pulled inside Requiem and both Cortana and Master Chief crash-land on the planet.
AWAKENING is strange. I would put it at the beginning when the Master Chief leaves the Cryo Pod. But it seems to be about something happening later. Here you can hear the sample. It is also possible that something on Requiem awakens after the intrusion of Master Chief and the Covenant.
FAITHLESS refers most probably to two scenes. One being Cortana who has lived longer than she was supposed to do. She is already over the deterioration rate of an AI. Chief wants to find Doctor Halsey on Earth. He thinks that Halsey could fix Cortana’s problem. But obviously, there is no way out of Requiem, no way back to Earth is in sight yet. That probably leaves Cortana faithless.
GREEN AND BLUE is easy. I first assumed it referred to the Master Chief and Forerunners (because of the color of their armor). But it’s rather a sooundtrack for Master Chief (green armor) and Cortana’s (blue body) relation.
HAVEN – I assume it will play during the Infinity Mission. Or it refers to the Multiplayer Map.
LEGACY is the final moment when Master Chief will reclaim what the Forerunners had left for humanity.
NEMESIS is the introduction of the main enemies: the Prometheans, these Forerunner’-whatever-they-are-and-no-they-are-not-robots’things. It’s possible that it will also be about the Cryptum and what is sleeping inside.
IMMATERIAL reminds me of those Gravemind moments from Halo 3. Maybe it’s some sort of Forerunner chamber where all the personalities of the Forerunners are gathered. It’s in and about the 7th level “COMPOSER”, so-to-say.
SOLACE is not about the Halo Reach mission The Long Night of Solace. It could be about
Master Chief’s and Cortana’s relation again. We don’t know yet how bad Cortana’s rampancy has become nor do we know if she will survive Requiem. She could be saved by the Composer. It is a bit strange but if Cortana was made blood and flesh, it would explain why she can physically attack the Didact (as stated in the script).
TO GALAXY will be at the end. We heard the sample. It sounds as if the Nemesis will start off to the far reaches of the Galaxy and Master Chief and the UNSC forces are trying to stop him.
REVIVAL is one of the greatest soundtracks. It will be the awakening of what hides inside the Cryptum. You might wonder what makes me think that. Well, we know the Didact will be in Halo 4. And the Didact will most probably be resting in a Cryptum (how else could he have survived 100k years?). And the book Halo Cryptum states that Chakas and Riser chant. That chant helped open the Cryptum of the Didact. So my conclusion is that the chant of the soundtrack Revival is the same chant which opens the Cryptum/s.
ASCENDANCY is the rising Evil. The Ancient Evil ascends, trying to leave Requiem behind. Maybe it will be a single task force or an entire fleet (of Forerunners?) I assume it will play during the final mission “MIDNIGHT”.
I assume the second AWAKENING will be the revival of all Forerunners in the galaxy. Or the rest of the Ancient Evil’s force in case the evil is not the Forerunners. There might be more “members” of the Ancient Evil on other Shield Worlds in the galaxy.

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I have my own theory about To Galaxy.

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Which theory do you have?

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That was a good read. Nice theories! :3

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> That was a good read. Nice theories! :3

I thank you. The more information is released, the more interesting Halo 4’s campaign becomes. I can’t wait to play it.

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> > That was a good read. Nice theories! :3
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> I thank you. The more information is released, the more interesting Halo 4’s campaign becomes. I can’t wait to play it.

:smiley: Absolutely!!! I really can’t wait for the campaign! I will have to try and avoid spoilers until release! Multiplayer content is fine for me! And the music of course!

I can’t wait to play Halo 4!!!

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" Ascendancy "

~ not to be off topic but if something huge is coming at the end of haLo 4 , haLo 5 Im going to assume all Hell is going to break lose on all worlds and earth will face an even greater danger than when the covenant first invaded. If this the case then Humans of all worlds with the Arbiters Elites , Brutes , Hunters , Grunts , Jackals/Skirmishers , Drones and Forerunners will have to make a extremley huge alliance to fight this even more bigger atrocity that awaits them ~ what if this ancient evil does not just extends to the milky way but also in 1000’s of other galaxies ? ~

~ not to sound dramatic ~

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I now possess the official soundtracks (because I preordered them). I listened to them and I must change my upper thoughts.

This is the new and chronologically right order of the soundtracks:

  • Awakening
  • Belly of the Beast
  • Requiem
  • Legacy
  • Faithless
  • Haven
  • Nemesis
  • Ascendancy
  • Solace
  • To Galaxy
  • Immaterial
  • 117
  • Arrival
  • Revival
  • Green and Blue

(Desecration is not OST and it’s not put into order)

Now my thoughts on the context, the situations the music will play in.

AWAKENING
The Master Chief definitely awakes from cryo sleep. And now he has to fight his way through the wreckage of the Forward Unto Dawn. He will be inside the ship and on the hull.

BELLY OF THE BEAST
This is when the portal leading into Requiem opens. The Forward Unto Dawn is scanned and the human is detected. The Portal then draws the Dawn inside. The Covenant ships try to stop it but they don’t succeed. And eventually, both the Covenant ship and the Forward Unto Dawn crashland on Requiem.

REQUIEM
This is the new, strange world. An environment that is familiar but totally different than what the Master Chief and Cortana know. They have escaped the crash site and now they are in the grasslands of this strange world. They are heading for nowhere. A path without destination.

LEGACY
After walking over Requiems fields, Cortana detects something. The Master Chief heads for the location and finds something like a fleet or sarcophagi. The legacy of the Forerunners is nothing more than dust and bones.

FAITHLESS
This could be the level ‘Forerunner’. The Chief does not only engage Covenant but also the Prometheans. A new threat rises. The Prometheans are trying to stop the Covenant from reaching Requiem’s core. Inside the core, at a broadcast relay rests the dormant Didact in his Cryptum.

HAVEN
In my opinion, this is the level ‘Infinity’ or ‘Reclaimer’.
The Chief is teleported back to Requiem’s surface. Cortana was not able to contact the Infinity and tell them to stay back from the Shield World’s opening. Now they witness the Infinity’s descend.
Or - in case of ‘Reclaimer’ - the Humans now try to activate the fleet from the second mission in order to leave Requiem.

NEMESIS
The awakening of the Didact. He has a conversation with the humans but suddenly starts to kill them. I think the Didact will kill Admiral Del Rio and Commander Lasky will replace Del Rio aboard the Infinity then. The Didact then flees, shooting his way out the Infinity.

ASCENDANCY
It could still be playing during the mission ‘Reclaimer’. Or it will play during ‘Shutdown’. Anyways, the Didact’s forces are taking over now. A Halo Ring arrives in system. The Master Chief pursues the Didact but the sheer endless number of Prometheans hinder his progress. Eventually, the Chief is knocked out by the Didact.

SOLACE
This is a very harmonic soundtrack, a bit sad if you ask me. It will probably play during the mission ‘Shutdown’. Cortana tries to wake John up. She had lost contact with the Infinity. John-117 awakens but he has to witness that Cortana’s condition gets worse. It also sounds like a romance soundtrack in the end.

TO GALAXY
The Chief is heading for the huge cannon. A cannon which would awaken the Forerunners in the galaxy. His task is to shut that cannon down. The Didact’s forces are able to move the cannon to the Halo Ring. The Chief takes a Forerunner vessel and pursues them. He arrives just in time as the Halo Ring opens a portal and disappears.

IMMATERIAL
One of the longest and most tragic tracks. This will absolutely play during the mission ‘Composer’. I think that the Chief will not only meet the Composer on the Halo Installation and talk to him/it but he will also discover that the Promethean Knights are Forerunner souls. And the Composer will be able to help Cortana. Cortana becomes a stable and physically active AI. Cortana is connected to the Domain. Then, he continues his pursuit on the Didact.

117
This is the Master Chief returning. He has gone through a personal evolution and is now returning as the Hero. He heads towards the Didact’s dome. You will hear very familiar tones. It is a wonderful and heroic soundtrack. The Chief takes on the forces, no matter their number or strength.

ARRIVAL
This sounds like the good guys are reinforcing our hero. But it could also be the Halo Ring arriving above Earth. Or the Chief arrives at the Didact’s dome (Palace of Pain) and simultaneously, the Halo Ring leaves slipspace above Earth.

REVIVAL
This is the final confrontation. The Didact is able to revive the Forerunners. Then, he targets the cannon at Earth. I guess that the Didact thinks Forerunners (like his wife) might be buried beneath Earth’s surface.

GREEN AND BLUE
This is the last conversation between John-117 and Cortana. There is a lot emotion in this track. The Master Chief and Cortana talk inside the Domain. The Didact is defeated and now Cortana destroys the Halo. It is falling apart. Cortana cannot come with the Chief anymore because she remained inside Halo which now cripples. The last chance for Cortana to contact the Chief is using the Domain. Then she vanishes and the Chief floats off into space.

Again, this is all speculation based on the emotions the sooundtracks conveyed to me. I haven’t played HALO 4 yet. Unfortunately … 12 more days