Play Doom 1 or 2 in combination with cuddly song by the Carpenters, that's just ace!

Every Shallala BANG! Every ouououo KABOOOM still shi.. RATATATATAT ARGH

It is and it's easily the best thing about the entire game. Heck, it's honestly one of the best game soundtracks I've ever heard. It's masterfully produced and a rare case of a modern game soundtrack where the composer wasn't afraid at all of putting some actual goddamn melodies in there (and also didn't just create a million arrangements of the same melody).

I have trouble processing that Astarte didn't make your list, though, lol. That stuff gave me goose bumps and probably made that bossfight the most memorable part of the entire game.

I don't think I could ever remember HALO as fondly as I do now without its soundtracks. In my opinion, music in games play a role in further immersing you in their world, or in some action sequences, help make you feel more pumped up. That being said, a wise judgement on when to include and not include music in various parts of the game is always a much more important thing to consider as there are moments within a game that work best without any accompanying music in the background. The most common example of this is in horror games.

I've said this before, but I feel something is off with the Halo music (I've finished the first two Halo games, on PC).

It is just... that when I hear the Halo title music, I envision a group of Irish step dancers dancing in the background. It just has that step dancing vibe in it, IMHO. And that kinda kills the atmosphere for Halo with is supposed to be so bad ass futuristic military game.

Then it's pretty much subjective lol. One question, does that image still appear for you when listening to the second Halo's title music? As I recall the second one took a more metal approach than the first one. It'd be rather funny imagining Irish step dancers dancing to a rock song lol.

If I had listed more than 3, it would. It's probably a #4 or 5 to me.

I just love the violin in theme/credits and Dredge Works just does it for me. From the start, it keeps increasing in intensity until the finale, the vocals are just godly and with a good subwoofer, the drums are something else.

If you like this soundtrack so much, you can listen to anything else Gareth Coker has written, everything he has done is incredible. He is well know for his work on Ori and the Blind Forest and ARK: Survival Evolved, which have excellent soundtracks, by the way, but his work on lesser-known games is as good.

For example, here are some tracks he composed for The Mean Greens:

The Mean Greens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTmN3BBgPc8
Kitchen Run - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsw542NSnqI
Operation Birthday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEttjsLg2S8

The tracks that follow are from big budget games, so I contradict myself a little, but they really slap!

Here's a track of him that I can't get out of my head, which he originally wrote for one of the ARK II trailers:

Ark II Main Theme - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0JhslTriw

Any of the Immortals Fenyx Rising soundtracks, composed by him as well, are amazing.
Here are a few tracks I love, but really, any other track could have been part of this list, they are all excellent:

Heart of the Hero - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0SC94yxCMo
The Corrupted Heroes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0o4lhPgtH0
A Showcase of Power - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmnQSkLwHUE
Zeus's Trial of Blessing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBSj7oFyCx8