"The Mantis Stride" - A Halo 4/5 OST Mini-Medley/Mix

This video is not monetized, and all pieces used have been trimmed/edited/mixed. The pieces were composed by Neil Davidge (of 343 Industries circa 2012 for Halo 4) and by Kazuma Jinnouchi (of 343 Industries circa 2015 for Halo 5: Guardians). I doubt saying these things will stop potential copyright strikes, but it was worth a shot... :P

Ah, Mantis and a Walk Softly. Imo, these tracks are prime examples of what you can do when you take your soundtrack's existing themes and have some fun remixing/repurposing them. They each did a fine job retooling their respective themes into tracks that perfectly encapsulate stomping around in an unstoppable mech suit. Figures I'd want to make a mini-medley out of them!

Now you may perhaps recall that I did tease the idea of this mini-medley several months back on another video. While that comment was intended to be humorous, I really was trying to get these two tracks to fit together at the time, but it just wasn't coming together like I'd hoped. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the fourth time in the past year I've attempted to come back to this mini-medley. Even though they seem so similar to one another in premise, their stark contrasts become apparent once you start trying to place them side by side (or even end to end). To get this to work, I decided to mix the two for the intro and ending (as they're the most similar during these sections), and strategically placed their middles end to end between the mixes. [For an example of that placement strategy: the reason why I left the first string section of Walk Softly at the beginning (before the first Mantis theme kicks in) was because it mirrors what Walk Softly does in its climax.] Furthermore, I did some minor duplication of parts of the tracks so that their timing would match up in both the intro and ending.

Anyway, despite the many setbacks this mini-medley has seen over the past year, I'm pretty satisfied with the end result! Enjoy! :)

5:32 - The Melancholy Emote. The exaggerated version of the Sad emote.

Thumbnail - Cover for Halo: Escalation; Issue 15 by Dark Horse Comics

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