Awesome Music / Jeremy Soule

• The music for the 2000 Forgotten Realms RPG Icewind Dale. Sadly forgotten, it had an amazing soundtrack, even for the tiny village you start in. Listen to it here. The best part is the starting town piece, Easthaven in Peace and its later, darker counterpart, Easthaven in Pieces. The main theme, Stark Waste, is pretty cool, too.

• He did the music for zOMG!, which for a game in which you kill animated plungers with jewelry, has some really cool music. this theme is a particularly epic example, though there are many others, such as the "Village Green (Gnome Man's Land)" theme, and the "Barton Sewers/Undersea Cliffs" theme.) Keep in mind this is music playing while you beat up Lawn Gnomes and Sand Castles. Doesn't make it any less awesome though. This song in particular, which plays during the endboss battle with Labtech X and his Sealab X.
• Soule's also the main composer for The Elder Scrolls series, starting from Morrowind. And yes, his work in those games is awesome, too. The Skyrim theme would be the most triumphant example. Its creation started when Todd Howard told Soule that he imagined a viking choir singing the Elder Scrolls theme.

• In Guild Wars 2, the awesome level gets considerably bumped up from its predecessor. Almost the entire soundtrack is CMOA, but a special mention goes to the main theme, heard in the manifesto trailer. Good and gracious God, that theme is absolutely incredible; Jeremy really pulls out all the stops for Arenanet. It's no wonder that the fans were so happy when it was announced that he was returning to compose the soundtrack.
  • The Seraph and Raven Speaks both turn up in some events and story battles.
  • Fear Not This Night plays during the credits.
• The score of Neverwinter Nights and its sequel just goes from one piece of Awesome Music to another.
  • As in Perfect Dark, one of Neverwinter Nights's most awesome tracks plays during the autorun menu.
  • From Hordes of the Underdark, "Rebel Camp".
  • From Mask of the Betrayer, the main theme.
• The martial music for Supreme Commander is also epic. Especially Bellum Infinitus, Risk Relief and Victory and The Future Battlefield.
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and its sequel. Especially the Space Marine theme. The Chaos Theme has to be responsible for creating at least some villains out there. It is one of the best in the game.
• Soule has even made his own OC Remix of Terra's theme from FFVI. Listen to it here.
• Secret of Evermore, which may have been his first game, was by and far little besides ambient noise...Except for the credits. Some tracks are hauntingly beautiful, such as Collosia, Chamber 2.
• His scores for the Harry Potter games have shades of this. Some fans think Soule's Harry Potter themes rival those written for the movies by freakin' John Williams.
• He does some more than passable John Williams impersonations with his Knights of the Old Republic soundtrack. The ominous "Korriban Academy", "Darth Malak's Theme", "The Old Republic", and "Bastila's Theme" are just a sample - all of it is on par with the movies.
• Total Annihilation is an embarrassment of riches. (Try a few different tracks. Some of them, e.g. "Futile Attempt", are slow and haunting. Others, such as "The March Unto Death", "Fire and Ice", and "Brutal Battle" are war music if ever there was.)
• The epic soundtrack of Prey!
• One of the biggest ear-worms of all time, the Dungeon Siege theme, and the rest of its awesome soundtrack.
• Gaia Online's MMO zOMG! had some pretty awesome tracks, like Village Greens Frenzy.

• His work for Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance includes the beautiful and haunting Elfsong theme, as well as It's Raining In Baldur's Gate. Good boss songs are The Orb Of Undead, Sess'sth's, Xantam's, Ciraxis', and Ilavarra's. But the absolute best one of all has to be the final boss theme, which is incredibly heartbreaking and epic. The sequel also has great music such as Aizagora's, Female Vampire (name is spoiler), Zarad's, Harnac's, and The Basilisk's.
• Putt-Putt Travels Through Time has a very well made score, despite somewhat compressed sound quality. For instance, the third Medieval theme.

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