[url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLymBCArRbeVWmhhWdzL8hPDXk_LUFgZi2]Here it is![/url].
I love it. I [I]love[/I] it. Halo 4 easily secures its place as my second favorite Halo soundtrack now.
What are your favorite tracks?
Mine:
1) Foreshadow (favorite track in the entire series, tied with Arborea Above from CEA)
2) Sacrifice (favorite rendition of the Halo theme yet)
3) Aliens (atmospheric gold- I really like the choir, but my favorite part is that little tombstone-ish [I]toooooong[/I] noise that plays at the end of each choir... verse?)
4) Convoy (so catchy...)
5) Cloud City (sounds so cool, like some of those atmospheric tracks from CE as the uploader said) and To Galaxy Extended (So much epic... as in, there's so much of it- I could have sworn the tracklist said it was only ~7 minutes...)
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I've listened to it through about 3 times now, I'm seriously struggling to decide whether Halo 4's OST as a whole has managed to topple ODST from the top spot because both are just so -blam!-ing good. Neil and Kazuma make such a perfect duo - Neil is able to create really definitive alien ambient pieces (Aliens, Swamp, Legacy, Haven, Cloud City, This Armour etc) as well as character themes (Revival, Nemesis, Green and Blue, Awakening etc) while Kazuma handles the more epic, large scale tracks which bring you back to the more familiar ground of Halo's past music (Lasky's Theme, Sacrifice, Never Forget, Majestic, 117, Gravity etc). I bloody well hope they're brought together again for Halo 5 and 6. It's a shame that Sotaro Tojima did such a poor job implementing these tracks in the game, they're nowhere near loud enough so I can't appreciate them the way I should. I was listening to Push Through by Davidge which plays during the Scorpion 'rolling thunder' sequence in Infinity and it was absolutely epic but I barely recognised most of it because it's so damn quiet in the game. My top 6 tracks from Volume II would be: 1) Lasky's Theme 2) Escape 3) Aliens 4) Majestic 5) Gravity 6) Wreckage (I just could not bring myself to call it a 'top 5' and leave this one out)