Metroid Prime & Fusion Original Soundtracks

This article is written from the Real Life point of view

“	As for the Metroid Prime & Metroid Fusion album, I had enough time in my schedule to support the development and studio recording when the record company approached us. I fully supported the CD cover creation as well.	„
—Kenji Yamamoto [1]

Front cover.

Back cover.

The Metroid Prime & Fusion Original Soundtracks are a two-CD set, each disc containing the soundtrack of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion. The album was released only in Japan, on June 18, 2003. The Metroid Prime music was composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Kouichi Kyuma, while the Metroid Fusion music was composed by Minako Hamano and Akira Fujiwara. The album was produced by Scitron, a Japanese record label that produces video game music albums. "Metroid Fusion Arranged Version", the first track on the Fusion disc, was arranged by Japanese musician Shinji Hosoe.

Tracklisting

Disc 1

1. Title
2. Menu Select
3. Prologue
4. Frigate Orpheon
5. VS Parasite Queen
6. Frigate Orpheon Escape
7. Planet Tallon IV
8. Ancient Chozo Ruins
9. VS Hive Totem
10. VS Giant Beetle
11. Chozo Ruins
12. Energy Core
13. VS Flaahgra
14. Lava Caves (Burning Trail)
15. Lava Caves
16. Ice Valley
17. Ice Chapel
18. Space Pirates (Laboratory Gate)
19. VS Space Pirates
20. VS Thardus
21. Tallon Overworld
22. Chozo Chapel of the Elders
23. VS Chozo Ghost
24. Ice Valley (Phendrana Deep Lake Area)
25. Wrecked Ship Frigate Orpheon
26. Phazon Mines
27. Phazon Area
28. VS Omega Pirate
29. Artifact Shrine
30. Vs. Meta Ridley
31. Artifact Shrine (Release of the Chozo Ruins Seal)
32. Impact Crater
33. VS Metroid Prime (Spider)
34. VS Metroid Prime (Head)
35. Shrine Collapsing~Epilogue
36. Ending Staff Roll
37. End Jingle
38. Record of Samus
39. Samus Appears Jingle
40. Get Item Jingle
41. Get Artifact Jingle

Disc 2

1. Metroid Fusion Arranged Version
2. Title
3. Sector 1 (SRX) SR388 Return Area
4. Environment Sound (Silence 1)
5. Environment Sound (Tension)
6. Environment Sound (Shock)
7. Facing a Huge Reaction
8. Tension Before a Confrontation
9. VS Mulcalah
10. X Invasion Detection
11. Navigation Room
12. VS Core-X, Fake Chozo Statue Second Form
13. Environmental Sound (Disquieting)
14. Sector 2 (TRO) Tropic Area
15. VS Zazabi, Barrier Core-X
16. Environmental Sound (Silence 2)
17. Sector 4 (AQA) Aquatic Control Level Area
18. VS Ishtar, Gedo
19. Sector 3 (PYR) High-Temperature Zone Area
20. VS BOX
21. Sector 6 (NOC) Dark Area
22. SA-X Appears
23. Sector 5 (ARC) Low-Temperature Zone Area
24. Sector 3 Emergency Situation
25. Sector 3 Restore the Cooling Installation Timer Mission
26. Environmental Sound (Intrigue)
27. VS Fake Statue First Form
28. VS Nightmare
29. Sector 4 (AQA) Underwater Area
30. VS Neo Ridley
31. Last Instructions
32. VS SA-X
33. Station Escape Timer Mission
34. Epilogue
35. Ending
36. Appearance Jingle
37. Get Item Jingle

Missing tracks

Not all of the music in Prime or Fusion is present on this CD. Below is a list of themes in the games that are omitted:

Metroid Prime:

1. The Frigate Orpheon ambience, which plays in the Exterior Docking Hangar and Reactor Core Entrance (heard here);
2. The Elevator room ambience, which also plays in the Crater Entry Point (heard here);
3. The Save Station/Map Station and Missile Station ambience themes (heard here and here);
4. The Phendrana Drifts ambience, heard in certain rooms near Glacier One and before the Phendrana Shorelines on the first visit (heard here);
5. The Phendrana Drifts variant of the Energy Core theme (heard here);
6. The Space Pirate ambience theme, heard in areas where there is a Pirate presence or after they have been cleared from a room (heard here);
7. The crashed Frigate Orpheon ambience, which plays in Main Ventilation Shaft Sections C, B and A before Crashed Ship begins playing in the Reactor Core (heard here);
8. The ambience that plays in the Elite Quarters room before the battle with the Omega Pirate (heard here);
9. The expansion acquired jingle, which is reused in subsequent Prime games and Metroid: Samus Returns (heard here);
10. The "puzzle solved" jingle, also reused in later Prime games and Samus Returns (heard here);

Metroid Fusion:

1. The opening prologue theme, which plays during the Title Screen cutscene where Samus Aran's Gunship crashes into the asteroid belt. The intense final notes of the theme are included at the beginning of the "Title" track, however (heard here);
2. The "environmental ambience" theme (heard here);
3. The "power down" themes in Fusion, the first of which also plays after the Main Boiler's cooling unit has been reset (heard here and here);
4. The theme that plays on the Operations Deck and in the Auxiliary Power Station (heard here);
5. The flourish that plays after activating the Pump Control Unit, the Main Boiler's cooling unit and the Auxiliary Power Station, and releasing the Dachoras and Etecoons on the Habitation Deck (heard here).