Volume 2!

For a little over a year, now, I've been dying to get my hands on the Halo 2 soundtrack's second volume. Details on its release have been few and far between, which is odd, considering how popular the first two compilations were. Regardless, the time has come, the date announced and finally the tracks!

You can find them via this convenient story on HBO.

I'm pleased to see that this volume has been arranged neatly into suites, applicable to the portion of the game in which they were heard. And gone are the less than desireable pseudo-rock-group tracks that were included in the first volume.

I grew to like the Breaking Benjamin track... but... man... the others never even got close to my iPod. Sorry Hoobastank and Nile Rogers, I just didn't care for them at all. The tone, feel and texture just don't fit into the same context as Marty O'Donnell's works.

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