"Flood Themes" all versions | Halo 

How to trigger a Halo player's fight or flight response in an instant.

“I could see it crawling, SLITHERING AROUND BENEATH THEIR SKIN! Oh, and then they got up, and started to talk, Oh God, Their VOICES.” I always sat beside that marine in floodgate and listened to him, the sheer panic in his voice, and the words, scared me to death.

when you look under your bed after years of not cleaning it up there

H2A's sounds more upbeat. Like gravemind is gonna teach master chief how to play the bongos.

When these soundtracks play, the shotgun becomes your new best friend

Ah yes, the most anxiety inducing soundtracks that literally made me scared of the flood as a kid.

I saw someone mention that we were conditioned to fear the flood because that high pitched beat sounds similar to the low shield beep. Pretty cool play on the players subconscious

What introverts hear during social gatherings:

Idk if this makes sense but the flood theme sounds like “you don’t know where it is, you don’t know what it is, but it’s getting closer”

Something about that siren type noise in the Halo 2 and 3 themes makes me feel so anxious and just screams “fucking RUN” to me. It’s like the music itself is telling you you’re about to be fucked up on a insane level

Halo 3 gives me Vietnam flashbacks along with combat evolved

Imagine hearing this out of nowhere in a dark room in halo infinite

Halo CE: Iconic, and Scary in an action-like way. Halo CEA: Same thing but more modern. Halo 2: Its emptiness and mystery in the beginning makes it very suspenseful and creepy then gets scarier as it develops. Halo 2A: Not really scary. Halo 3: Straight-up scary in a horror way.

*Global pandemic* Rest of the population: "If we don't make it" Halo players: *we'll make it*

In halo 3's "shadows" I love how you can hear distant speaking of the gravemind

Man, the I forgot how relentless the Halo 3 Flood theme was

I mean I know they were just npcs but I got hella sad when a marine died because they were infected by the Flood

I'm still having trauma with the Flood themed levels.

I'll be honest halo 2 anniversary didn't sound close to what the trilogy had on being terrifying.

Halo CE and 3 perfected the Flood theme tbh

we not gonna talk about how horrifying the artwork is during the ce theme?

The Flood by its nature is the most terrifying enemy in all of video game history. Terrifying in its appearance. Terrifying in what it does to its victims. Terrifying in what it’s capable of. Terrifying in its tactics. Terrifying in its intelligence. Just… terrifying.

That first picture is so badass! Because it depicts such an iconic moment, not to the game, but to all the gamers who first experienced the Flood.

The sudden realization after watching the tape of the marines in the room, that you are in the same room where this hellish Flood washed over your allies, is fear-inducing as hell. You have but mere seconds to collect ammo and prepare for the swarm, as the unsettling music quietly rises behind you. Then, a blast of parasitic fear in the form of the Flood horde barrels its way towards you. As much as the Flood were featured in good ways in Halo 2/3, their introduction in 343 Guilty Spark, leading up to the first combat introduction in the bloodied room, is and always will be my favourite Flood moment.

What the toilets hear at Taco Bell when someone enters

The halo 2 flood theme is low key a good vibe

True halo fans when they hear this crap just got real

Literally was just vibin rn and I forgot this was coming up in my playlist and it spooked the shit out of me

Me going into the basement

I like how Halo 1 is a somewhat generic halo sound track with a slight more ominous feel to it, then halo 2 sounds like a race aganist time (in a sense it is) , and then Halo 3 is just Pure Relentless Terror, all of which represent different stages of the Flood's Development as a Intelligence, Halo 1 - more Calm and Stereotypical Halo Music (the Feral Stage) , Halo 2 - Beginning of something Unstoppable (The Cordinated stage) Halo 3 - Threatening to take over the entire galaxy (The interstellar stage)

This starts playing when you go to the bathroom as a kid at night thinking a demon is out to get you

7:10 the music that goes through my head when i get a call from a unknown number/no caller id

7:12 *You're at your local shop in a queue with your face mask on and someone behind you coughs and you feel the back of your neck get hit with spit particles*

God damn. Hearing "devils... monsters...", "demons and heretics", and "shadows" is giving me nam flashbacks

Halo 2 (Shudder) is not very creepy at the beginning but there is something about that buildups of the ringing part that just induces fear in me and makes me feel anxious.

The violins ARE the Flood. It's amazing how simple yet effective the melody is.

The track from CE out-ICONICizes the other ones. also the most creative piece imo

It Doesn't Matter From Wich Halo You Come You Know This Are The Sounds Of Death And Despair. *Especially The Halo 2 and 3 ones*

Im hoping Halo Infinite has a awesome flood theme

This is why I love my shotgun in halo one

dude I absolutely freaking LOVE the buildup of that sound at 3:40 it's super sick

suddenly, 30 years in the future on the news: "abandoned ship found on the Surface of Io, experts estimate no one has been inside for years, and are petitioning to have it moved to earth for study." HELL NAW LEAVE THAT SHIT THERE WE DON'T NEED IT

The CE ost is so haunting BUT SICK. Its like you have the flood, this terrifying entity, coming for you. But its ok, because you’re spartan 117, they should be afraid of you

Imagine hearing the first one in halo infinite

Halo ce: spooky and long tones Halo 2: paper towel tubes

Halo 3 is that constant creep-up for a jumps are that never climaxes and keeps you on edge

I really hope this theme makes it back in halo infinite when the flood come back the halo ce theme terrified 8 year old me when first encountered the flood I was horrified of them even had nightmares of them

“Hey do you want to go to the libra-“ *Pumping shotgun* “A simple no would have been fine”

I used to play flood levels with the sound off when I was a kid XD

I love how the constant beat in Shadows almost undulates like the Flood does, as if all of their jerky motions are to the beat of this demented melody.

Halo: CE still makes my anxiety spike and give me chills

The absolute and pure terror of the flood, something older than most life in the galaxy. The same life it wants to assimilate

It's Funny how Halo 2's flood theme goes from a Chill vibe, then becomes unsettling from mid-way to end... Which only makes it more disturbing and horrifying. I mean, it gives a nearly jazzy bop, then you start hearing the unsettling notes that you're terrifyingly familar with from Halo Combat Evolved, right before it drops you into the horror... Befitting it's name of "Shudder". It certainly leaves me with the Shudders. Menace No More ruins it by switching to a Military march... But I guess that's why it's called "Menace No More". There's no reason to really fear them any more in Aniversary. The new Graphics doesn't give the shadows that make detecting the flood difficult, so it only becomes a bit of a Shoot-A-Round rather than a horrifying run through a Steadily infesting High Charity. [Demons and Heretics] makes the military march louder, and the horror stings softer... Which while it sounds heroic, it still carries that terror vibe... Making it an Opposite of [Devils... Monsters...], which emphisises the Horror notes more heavily, making it feels that Chief's heroic spirit is barely able to light his way through the horrors of the Flood... Giving a Sense of Further terror than Aniversary. Halo 3 Drops back into that terrifying Horror... And adds in what sounds like the Gravemind _Talking,_ but not to _Chief..._ Rather, it sounds like the Gravemind is trying to talk to _YOU,_ The _PLAYER playing the game!_

The Halo 3 track is actually named Gravemind, and the Halo 2 piece is actually Infected. Shadows was the piece in Halo: CE that Infected and Gravemind got their siren-like noise from.

7:09 when a spider crawls into your bed and you don't know where it is

Am 30 yrsold and Devil's Monsters gives me anxiety. Absolute masterclass.

I Honestly Love How All The Flood Themes Sound Like Distorted Alarms, Mixxed With Choral Screeches, Reflecting The Flood's Assimilation, And The Logic Plague, Almost As If The Flood Itself Is Making The Music And Broadcasting It For Everyone To Hear

To this day, nothing fills me with more anxiety than Halo 3’s Flood theme. I swear it almost activates my fight or flight instinct.

I would love to hear this music in some kind of horror movie because it would go beautifully with it.

Oh sweet Christmas, Halo 2's Shudder just sends me into PANIC MODE. I remember hearing that one, and it makes my skin crawl every time!

I call this is PTSD over the years

Can a strong enough gravemind break the 4th wall?

Halo CE and Halo 3 one are my absolute favorite themes for the flood. It fits them perfectly.

Dont you ever stop making these

The Halo 2 theme has amazing build up. While the beginning of the Halo 2 anniversary just makes me want to party around my local bonfire.

That constant tone of urgency present in every flood theme, the siren as it were, never fails to make me feel like I need to RUN.

Hearing anyone of these songs on low ammo was going to be a very terrifying experience. Especially since marine AI offers no protection at all

Man, 343 guilty spark and the Library were the levels that taught me that the M90 CAWS shotty, type 25 plasma riffle, and a metric fuck ton of grenades were your best friends. I can not tell you the number of times they came clutch in tight situations.

Remember how much it would be a pain in the ass to get through the cortana mission on halo 3 on a legendary or laso walkthrough. The library mission from halo 1 on legendary would be punishing as hell too.

shudder gives me anxiety

Halo 2's 'The Flood' soundtrack (I think it's called that, it's unreleased) really captures the suspenseful fear in my opinion. And when it bumps up it gets really chilly, as if the soundtrack was telling you 'Get the hell out of here, now.' You can hear this in the Sacred Icon mission when you enter the flood wall.

Man it still haunts after all this time, suddenly Halo becomes a horror shooter, and now there are 2 threats, Covenant aliens, and some freak of a life from called the flood. And how our battle harden marines get shaken so easily seeing them, and then in halo 3 they attack earth, which shakines humans even more. Yet despite all that we managed to recover, and face the Didact and Banished. are we going to recover? I hope someone at 343i comes up with a story that can live up to Halo.

Imagine exploring around halo infinite ring and your pretty deep in some building and hear this shit

If we hear this play suddenly in Infinite we’re all going to collectively shit ourselves.

Shudder and Shadows are honestly the scariest of them all hands down.

If 343 brings back the flood in Infinite, they could easily make it horrifying by having something similar to the Halo 2 Shudder be quiet at first and sort of gradually lead into the constant high pitch notes. It could suddenly get loud while you first re-encounter the flood and then quiet again as you traverse dark rooms and hallways to sort of subtly keep that feeling of terror and danger consistent. It would also be really interesting for some areas to have very few light sources to create a sense of danger of not knowing where the flood could be lurking or how many there are by having flickering lights as your only light source that only light up smaller parts of a room instead of the whole room or have your flashlight flicker and maybe eventually go out at some point for a short time, that’s if they add the flashlight to the game. Another thing they could add to create that feeling of not knowing where the flood are is by having your motion sensor malfunction and making you rely only on the light that’s available to you, you’re sense of direction, and also listening to the sounds around you.

Halo 3s flood theme always gave me the chills when I first played it as a kid. I remember first seeing them in halo 3 and nicknaming them “the disgusting aliens” I always looked behind me every time I heard that theme still gives me chills to this very day…

I’m finally getting my bro to play the halo games *with zero prior knowledge* , can’t fucking wait till he sees the flood Sad edit: false alarm, he hated it and didn’t even get to the flood part. He got through the first 3 levels then gave up from the lack of sprint.

The PTSD song for halo legendary veterans.

Its like each games theme evolves and builds upon the previous based on the stages of a flood outbreak. Halo CE feral stage, halo 2 coordinated stage, and finally peaking with halo 3 with the interstellar stage (aka your screwed stage)

I Remember my first time with this. I think I was about 10 and it was the halo 3 mission 'Floodgate'. I wasn't scared until I saw an actual flood infection/transformation, but I refused to play any mission involving the flood for months afterwards.

RU-vid made an autogenerated music playlist for me since I was chilling out, it didn’t have to give me a fucking heart attack. Honestly man can’t someone get a moment of rest? We aren’t in the library.

Halo 3 having the most intense flood ost and bringing on my ptsd

Halo CE: Something's not right.... Halo CEA: It knows you're here. Halo 2: RUN. Halo 2A: You're being hunted. Halo 3: There's nowhere to hide.

the most horrifying bat shit insane monsters, they are more insane than the "Thing" from what they were based on.

We were so robbed of what would’ve been an amazing Halo movie which was centered around combat evolved and making it like a survival horror movie and hearing this in theatres 3:05

Let's give space zombies rocket launchers. That's a brilliant idea. What could possibly go wrong?

the flood comes. woe to all things.

This is giving me halo laso Vietnam flashbacks

I played Halo as a Child and Teen, and I STILL get goosebumps when I hear this Soundtrack!

7:09 "lets use the buggers to fight the flood"

Top 10 Shittiest Decisions ever Made in existence 1. Giving the Flood Rocket Launchers

Menace no more reminds me of that time i had to deal with a flying cockroach 👀 did not know that bastard can fly.

Everyone gangsta until 343 Guilty Spark say " Please wait here". 😨

I miss playing halo with my mom, she was surprisingly good too

Halo 3's beat sounds like an elevated heart rate

Halo: CE - Perfectly captures the essence of the Flood as a chaotic and traumatic event. Effectively: "look at this terrifying concept art and make music for it." Halo 2 - A solid followup, excellently intense, feels like the music is telling me to "run, run far away." Halo 3 - Combines elements of the previous two with its intensity and use of strings to hone in on the fear and trauma. The background sounds effectively point toward the Gravemind as an "eldritch horror." CE Anniversary - Honestly pretty good remaster. The translation from synth sounds to actual instruments doesn't carry over perfectly, and I think they could have used some lower tones in places, but it does dial up the intensity pretty well. Halo 2 Anniversary - Practically a dance beat. A little funny that way, and not everything in a remaster will hit 100%, but its still fun.

The feeling of pure, condensed dread in song form

For some reason the siren sound in the soundtracks' background makes my brain auto remember gravemind lines, such as "SUBMIT!" or "I have consumed THOUSANDS, galaxies of flesh and mind and BONE"

I gotta be honest. I've played Horror Games all My life, LOVE the adrenaline from it! especially ones that give You a sense of dread. But Halo has been the only one that actually hit hard and made Me imagine if it were real and I can genuinely feel dread. I still get chills when thinking what if the Flood were real somewhere in the far reaches of the Galaxy. . . Very Unnerving thought