Opening (Destroyed Science Academy Research Station)

Super Metroid: Sound in Action is the iconic, eerie theme on the Title Screen in Super Metroid. It was composed by Minako Hamano.
==Description==
It begins with an eerie portion as the text "1994 Nintendo Presents Metroid 3" is displayed on-screen, and while the camera is panning around the Space Science Academy Lab on Ceres Space Colony, showing the Bioreactor System and the Lab Worker corpses as the baby's screeches can be heard in the background. The theme then changes to a slow, foreboding remix of the series Title theme, as the Title Screen comes into full view and the game's logo is displayed. The theme continues playing as the game displays the Demo Screen. After all of the footage has played, the Title Screen and music will loop around again.
The theme is included on the Super Metroid: Sound in Action soundtrack, as well as Play it Loud! Original Soundtrack Volume 1, a compilation soundtrack of SNES game music from Nintendo Power.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKLPUIQBVU It was later used in the E3 2001 trailer for Metroid Prime.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwW8fpECZn8
A short remix of the first part of the theme is included in Metroid: Zero Mission during a cutscene as Samus is descending into Tourian. The cutscene shows four cloned Metroid larvae feasting on a Zebesian corpse, before they charge towards the camera. This abridged theme does not continue into the Title theme.
Opening (Destroyed Science Academy Research Station) was adapted for orchestra in the Metroid arrangement performed in PLAY! A Video Game Symphony. This theme was later performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus as part of Super Metroid: A Symphonic Poem, released on the compilation album The Greatest Video Game Music 2; this medley gives a more lighthearted approach to this theme, in contrast with its eerie portrayal in Super Metroid. The theme's original darker tone is retained in a later Symphonic Selections arrangement, Into Red, Into Dark.
The original theme can be heard here, and the remix in Zero Mission here.
==Videos==
Super Metroid - Title Screen Theme
Metroid Zero Mission Music - Entering Tourian
==References==
Category:Music
Category:Title Themes
Category:Tourian
Category:Ceres Space Colony
Category:Super Metroid: Sound in Action