UPC: 4012927020081
Release Date: 26 February 1999
Release Type: Official European Release
Release Price:
Format: CD
Discs: 1
Length: 59:19
Tracks: 20
Publisher: Konami Europe
Composed By: KCE Japan Sound Team, Tappy, Rika Muranaka
Arranged By: Konami Kukeiha Club, Yoshiyuki Ito, Kanichiro Kubo, Motoaki Furukawa, Hikaru Nanase
Performed By: Unknown
Condition: 1 Sealed / 1 Used
- Track List:
- Metal Gear Solid Main Theme
- Introduction
- Discovery
- Cavern
- Intruder 1
- Encounter
- Intruder 2
- Warhead Storage
- Intruder 3
- Mantis’ Hymn
- Hind D
- Duel
- Enclosure
- Blast Furnace
- Colossed
- Rex’s Lair
- Escape
- End Title / The Best Is Yet To Come
- VR Training
- Metal Gear Solid Main Theme (1997 E3 Edit)
Official Soundtrack came with the European Limited Edition Premium Package and shares the same catalog number as the Japanese original (KICA-7895 Japan) Soundtrack was later sold in the official Konami Store
Other Information…
Track 21 has been removed due the japanese voice samples used in the Remix by QUADRA.
ORIGINAL GAME SOUND (M2-17, 19) - Composed & Arranged by KCE Japan Sound Team
METAL GEAR SOLID MAIN THEME (M1) - Composed & Arranged by Tappy
END TITLE / THE BEST IS YET TO COME - Composed & Arranged by Rika Muranaka
BONUS TRACK - M20 was remixed by KCEJ sound team for “1997 E3 show” promotion.
“THE BEST IS YET TO COME”
Written and Produced by Rika Muranaka
Additional choral arrangement by David Downes
Words translated by Blathnaid Ni Chufaigh
Recorded at Beech Park Studio, Ireland
Engineered by Philip Begley
Lead Vocal: Aoife Ni Fhearraigh (appears courtesy of Gael-linn Records)
Chorus: Iarlaith Carter, Stephen Mailey, Eimear Noone, Maev Nt Mhaolchatha, John Mc Namara, Cathal Clinch, Rachel Talbot, Sinead Fay, Sylvia O’Brieniarlaith, Ewan Cowley.
Musicians: Deelan Masterson (Low Pipe, Bouzouki), James Blennerhassett (Double Bass), John Fitzpatrick (Fiddle), Noel Bridgeman (Percussion), Rika Muranaka (Keyboards)
According to the end credits of the game, the KCE Japan Sound Team here consists of Kazuki Muraoka (who composed “Encounter” and “Rex’s Lair”, among others), Hiroyuki Togo, Takanari Ishiyama and Lee Jeon Myung. Maki Kirioka is also known to have composed “Enclosure”.