Something rather special is about to arrive for all Halo fans from Sumthing Else Music Works, the award-winning record label dedicated to licensing and distributing video game soundtracks. It’s been announced today that the Halo Wars 2 Original Soundtrack will be getting a special limited edition, deluxe gatefold, red marbled, double LP vinyl release. Not only that all purchases will come with a free digital download of this release too.
Featuring thirty-eight original scores for the composing team which includes: Gordy Haab, Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White. This soundtrack – for Halo Wars 2 – builds upon the legendary legacy of the Halo music by Martin O’Donnell, Michael Salvatori and other great composers.
Not only this, the soundtrack to the game’s expansion, Halo Wars 2: Awakening The Nightmare, has also been released – via Sumthing Else Music Works – on digital and streaming platforms.Developed by 343 Industries and Creative Assembly and published by Microsoft Studios, “Halo Wars 2” is an action-packed RTS for everyone on the biggest Halo battlefield ever, and is the long-awaited sequel to the best-selling console real-time strategy (RTS) of all time, “Halo Wars.” In “Halo Wars 2,” players lead armies of Spartans and other Halo fighting forces like Warthogs, Scorpions, and exciting new units in a brutal war against a terrifying new enemy, The Banished.
Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare is a brand-new full expansion coming to Halo Wars 2, featuring a new campaign, two new multiplayer leaders, two new multiplayer maps, and Terminus Firefight – a unique new cooperative mode where players build both bases and armies to defend and survive against an onslaught of enemy forces.
Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare is available now exclusively on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC. For more information on Halo Wars 2, visit here.
To purchase the Halo Wars 2 soundtrack, on the limited edition marbled vinyl, go to Amazon UK or Amazon US and for more information about Sumthing Else Music Works releases visit their main website here.
Originally published September 28, 2017. Updated December 1, 2022.