What song would make awesome final boss music?

[Lord Chainsaw]

What songs just scream final boss? Have you ever listened to a song and just thought "DAMN! This would make an awesome final boss track!"

Not only am I asking what songs would make awesome final boss tracks, but I am also asking in which battles these songs would play.

I've got to say Mozart's O Fortuna would make the most awesome final battle song of all time. My friend heard it for the first time on Friday. He asked me what game it was from. I told him it was Mozart and he said he'd never heard it before. Now actually designating O Fortuna to a game would be a hard thing to do. The song pretty much would fit into any final battle. It has chanting and almost sounds religious, so I'm saying it would work in a final battle with an angel in it. I've got to give O Fortuna to FF6.

Here's another:

Prince's 1999 to the final battle with Lavos in Chrono Trigger.

One final one:

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to second Time Devourer from Chrono Cross.

[aeris2001x2]

hmmm i would nominate carmina brana (1st part) by Bach is it? that such a powerful and creepy song.

damn there was this other piece on the rpg maker. a slow piano sonnata kind of thing with atmospheric backing...cant remember it. ahh, i,d also pick mozart air on a g-string 4 slow melancholic reflective battle and metallicas call of Ktulu. thats one heavy but mainly classically driven instrumental masterpiece with bucket loads of evil atmosphere. its praticulary classical masqerading as heavy metal.

and i agree, o Fortuna would rock, as would moonlight sonnata, the greatest piano piece ever written. :D

[-N-]

The instrumental introduction of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", by Santa Esmeralda. Tarantino uses it in the Beatrix-O'Ren fight at the end of Kill Bill I, which is why that scene always reminds me of a Megaman boss fight.

[aeris2001x2]

oh yeah that is fantastic piece. i also nominate the piece played during the anime section when O-RENS family are murdered.

ohhh and half the time spliters 2 soundtrack!! such beauty, espically sibera and notradarme.

[-N-]

Oooh, "Il Grande Duele, Part I" by Luis Bacalov. I don't know if it would fit a boss fight - it tells more of a story rather than a fight... but then again, it is called "The Grand Duel", so there's gotta be something to it.

And, uh, Moonlight Sonata? What are you thinking? You don't fight to the Moonlight Sonata. It's slow, quiet, and peaceful for a reason. (Many reasons actually, one being DON'T FIGHT TO THIS SONG. :D)

[aeris2001x2]

it would form a similar situation to aeris theme played during the jenova life fight in ff7. if the fight was tinged with tragedy then the first movement in my opinion could be a very emotional boss fight.

[-N-]

Fair enough - it would have to be reiterated throughout the game for it to carry meaning. And for a FINAL boss fight, I just don't think it could work.

[nik0tine]

Spaz's House Destruction Party by Anti-Flag. that would be a fun boss battle.

[black orb]

>>> "Still In the Dark" Guilty Gear X/XX OST, this was the "boss" theme for Eddie in some GGXX story mode.. Just hear that awesome track make me want to play countless battles to death..

[Erdrick Holmes]

Symphony X- Inferno (Unleash the Fire)

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Mikey used to say "The End is the Beginning is the End" by the Smashing Pumpkins. I agreed.
I've got to say Mozart's O Fortuna would make the most awesome final battle song of all time. My friend heard it for the first time on Friday. He asked me what game it was from. I told him it was Mozart and he said he'd never heard it before.It's not Mozart. It's Carl Orff.

[Mr. Graves]

Pumpkin's '1979' would be good final boss music.

[Big D]

O Fortuna is from Carmina Burana, written by Orff (as Kishi has pointed out) in the 1930s.

Actually, it's been used as "final boss" music already. The lyrics to FFVII's One Winged Angel were all taken from various verses of Carmina Burana.i,d also pick mozart air on a g-stringThat's by JS Bach.

Any of the grand, dark pipe organ works would be good. Bach, Music God that he is, wrote no truly ominous organ music. His is all bright and pleasant, but there's some suitable stuff out there from other composers.

The song Sehnsucht by Rammstein would make a good 'boss fight' track, but the effect would be spoiled a little for any listeners with a good grasp of German. Still, the song's got a great mixture of styles, and a really intense, rapid feel.

There are also a heap of piano solos that'd work very well, though I can't remember them off the top of my head.

Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky wrote some brilliant atonal music that'd add a heck of a lot to many a boss battle. There's plenty of brutal pagan imagery in The Rite of Spring to spice up the Ultimate Climactic Fight of Doom™.

[nik0tine]

if memory permits, J.S. Bachs prelude in C minor was ominous on an organ. i think...

[Rain]

Smells Like Teen Spirit minus the vocals.

Achilles' Last Stand, also minus vocals.

Movement 4 of the New World Symphony.

[White Raven]

The Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
One of These Days - Pink Floyd
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen

Meh, it's hard to find classic rock songs that would be fitting.

[aeris2001x2]

i,m sure Air on a g-string was by mozart. i have the cd sum where, i.. check later.

[Del Murder]

The old Undertaker theme. The demonic one.

[Cuchullain]

Griegs "Hall of the Mountain King" would work well. If you want something more modern, then I reckon Iron Maiden's "Phantom of the Opera" and Rammstein's "Spieluhr," especially given the spoken part at the beginning could be used to introduce the final fight.

[Meat Puppet]

I mixed around with the chord of Meat Puppets - Lake of Fire and got something that would make a groovy boss theme.

[Big D]

"Night on Bare Mountain"(?) by Mussorgsky is a great piece of music, it'd suit some games really well. Actually, it was used in the original Earthworm Jim.

Also, it's hard to fault "Mars" from Holst's The Planets.i,m sure Air on a g-string was by mozart.Nope, Bach.

[Dixie]

I had a song that sounded really dark and was done by Beethoven, but I forgot the name of it.

[Lord Chainsaw]

"Night on Bare Mountain"(?) by Mussorgsky is a great piece of music, it'd suit some games really well. Actually, it was used in the original Earthworm Jim.

Yeah, that'd be an awesome last boss track.

Aside from being used in the second level of Earthworm Jim (What the Heck) Night on Bald Mountain was also used in Kingdom Hearts during the battle with the Charnybog in the World Terminus.

I had no idea that O Fortuna wasn't by Mozart. All this time I'd been under the wrong impression. Better to know now than later at least.