Microsoft recently announced that you can buy Halo 5’s soundtrack on vinyl, exclusively through Hastings, for $25. There is also a $50 limited edition that comes with two discs, a vinyl double album, sheet music, and much more.
Halo 5 Soundtrack:
• Digital Edition ($16)
– Pre-orders are up now at iTunes and Amazon
– All pre-orders get instant access to five tracks: “Halo Canticles,” “Light Is Green,” “Kamchatka,” “The Trials,” and “Osiris Suite, Act 1”
• Standard Edition ($25)
– Comes with MP3 download card
– Clear Vinyl ($25 only available at Hastings)
• Limited Edition ($50)
– 2 compact discs
– Vinyl double album
– Blu-ray with 5.1 Surround-Sound edition soundtrack and cinematic exclusive, “The Sprint–Making Halo 5: Guardians”
– Orchestral sheet music of “Jameson Locke” from the recording session at Abby Roads Studios
– Digital download card featuring exclusive bonus tracks
– The bulk of Halo 5’s soundtrack was composed by veteran composer Kazuma Jinnouchi, who previously worked on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
Halo 5 launches on October 27. The soundtrack is out October 30.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.