Destiny Original Soundtrack

Track list

Disc 1

1. The Traveler

   Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori

   2:30 • Studio version • A

2. The Fallen

   Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Skye Lewin

   4:36 • Studio version • A

3. Excerpt From The Hope

   Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori

   2:16 • Studio version • A1 • Excerpt From The Hope

   London Symphony Orchestra : Orchestra Sam Okell : Second engineer Peter Cobbin : Recording engineer Libera : Boys choir Mark McKenzie : Music supervisor, Orchestrations Jonty Barnes : Producer Dennis Sands : Mixing engineer Adam Olmsted : Assistant mixing engineer Robert Prizeman : Director of libera boys choir Tom Delgado-Little : Boy soloist Isaac London : Boy soloist London Voices : Choir Terry Edwards : Choir director Ben Parry : Choir director Isobel Griffiths : Orchestra contractor Thomas Bowes : Orchestra leader Charlotte Matthews : Assistant orchestra contractor

   Session Recording: Nov 20-23, 2012 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road

4. Excerpt From The Ecstasy

   2:10 • Studio version

5. The Warmind

   2:09 • Studio version

6. Guardian

   2:08 • Studio version

7. The Tower

   Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson

   1:19 • Studio version • A

8. The Last Array

   6:57 • Studio version

9. The Collapse

   1:33 • Studio version

10. The Journey Home

    3:09 • Studio version

11. First Challenge

    3:45 • Studio version

12. Prey

    2:13 • Studio version

13. Tranquility

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson

    5:08 • Studio version • A

14. The Great Unknown

    1:34 • Studio version

15. Excerpt 1 From The Rose

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori

    1:23 • Studio version • A1 • Excerpt 1 From The Rose

    London Symphony Orchestra : Orchestra Sam Okell : Second engineer Peter Cobbin : Recording engineer Libera : Boys choir Mark McKenzie : Music supervisor, Orchestrations Jonty Barnes : Producer Dennis Sands : Mixing engineer Adam Olmsted : Assistant mixing engineer Robert Prizeman : Director of libera boys choir Tom Delgado-Little : Boy soloist Isaac London : Boy soloist London Voices : Choir Terry Edwards : Choir director Ben Parry : Choir director Isobel Griffiths : Orchestra contractor Thomas Bowes : Orchestra leader Charlotte Matthews : Assistant orchestra contractor

    Session Recording: Nov 20-23, 2012 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road

16. Excerpt From The Tribulation

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori

    2:14 • Studio version • A1 • Excerpt From The Tribulation

    London Symphony Orchestra : Orchestra Sam Okell : Second engineer Peter Cobbin : Recording engineer Libera : Boys choir Mark McKenzie : Music supervisor, Orchestrations Jonty Barnes : Producer Dennis Sands : Mixing engineer Adam Olmsted : Assistant mixing engineer Robert Prizeman : Director of libera boys choir Tom Delgado-Little : Boy soloist Isaac London : Boy soloist London Voices : Choir Terry Edwards : Choir director Ben Parry : Choir director Isobel Griffiths : Orchestra contractor Thomas Bowes : Orchestra leader Charlotte Matthews : Assistant orchestra contractor

    Session Recording: Nov 20-23, 2012 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road

17. Guardians Lost

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson

    3:49 • Studio version • A

18. Relic Of Hope

    2:14 • Studio version

19. Departure

    2:00 • Studio version

20. Lost Horizons

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson

    1:09 • Studio version • A

21. Reborn

    3:34 • Studio version

22. Sepiks Prime

    4:13 • Studio version

23. Traveler's Promise

    1:56 • Studio version

24. Deconstruction

    1:42 • Studio version

25. Excerpt From The Ruin

    1:36 • Studio version

26. Untold Legends

    3:34 • Studio version

27. Cabal Stomp

    3:40 • Studio version

28. Dust Giants

    4:28 • Studio version

29. Ishtar Sink

    4:43 • Studio version

30. The World's Grave

    5:36 • Studio version

31. Exclusion Zone

    3:48 • Studio version

32. The Stranger

    1:11 • Studio version

33. Temple Of Crota

    5:16 • Studio version

34. Eye Of The Gate Lord

    4:01 • Studio version

35. The Hive

    5:46 • Studio version

36. The Collective

    4:11 • Studio version

37. End Of The Line

    3:32 • Studio version

38. The Vex

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, C. Paul Johnson, Skye Lewin

    5:13 • Studio version • A

39. Siege Dancers

    3:16 • Studio version

40. Chronologies

    3:32 • Studio version

41. Passage

    3:22 • Studio version

42. Excerpt 2 From The Rose

    Written by Paul McCartney, Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori

    2:46 • Studio version • A2 • Excerpt 2 From The Rose

    London Symphony Orchestra : Orchestra Sam Okell : Second engineer Peter Cobbin : Recording engineer Libera : Boys choir Mark McKenzie : Music supervisor, Orchestrations Jonty Barnes : Producer Dennis Sands : Mixing engineer Adam Olmsted : Assistant mixing engineer Robert Prizeman : Director of libera boys choir Tom Delgado-Little : Boy soloist Isaac London : Boy soloist London Voices : Choir Terry Edwards : Choir director Ben Parry : Choir director Isobel Griffiths : Orchestra contractor Thomas Bowes : Orchestra leader Charlotte Matthews : Assistant orchestra contractor

    Session Recording: Nov 20-23, 2012 • Studio EMI Studios, Abbey Road

43. Excerpt From The Union

    1:45 • Studio version

44. All Ends Are Beginnings

    1:33 • Studio version

From Wikipedia:

Destiny Original Soundtrack is the official soundtrack for the video game, composed by Michael Salvatori, C Paul Johnson, Martin O’Donnell, Skye Lewin, and Stan LePard, with contributions and input from British musician Paul McCartney. Released digitally via iTunes on September 26, 2014, the soundtrack contains 44 instrumental songs from the game. The soundtrack marked Martin O’Donnell’s final work for Bungie, after years of composing for the Halo franchise, as well as several games before that. In addition, McCartney wrote and recorded an original song inspired by the game.

Early in Destiny’s development, O’Donnell was contacted by Pete Parsons (current Chief Operating Officer of Bungie), and was asked to begin writing music for the game. At the time, Destiny was still in its infancy, as it lacked any gameplay material for O’Donnell to score music to, so instead, O’Donnell began creating music based solely on the games ideas, stories, and artwork. By February 17, 2013, over 50 minutes of the soundtrack had already been recorded with a 106-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios in London. O’Donnell gave the early pieces of music to Bungie in hopes that they would foster inspiration within the development team.

Unlike the Halo series, where pieces of music were only 2–3 minutes long, Martin has stated that the soundtrack for Destiny has no time restrictions, with the pieces clocking in “as long as they need to be.” O’Donnell collaborated with Paul McCartney on the soundtrack for the better part of two years, as they traded ideas, melody samples and themes back and forth. On April 11, 2014, Martin O’Donnell was dismissed without cause by the board of directors at Bungie. This caused concern as to whether this would affect the game; however, Pete Parsons stated that O’Donnell’s work on the game had been completed before his dismissal and would appear in the final product.

Music of the Spheres

Music of the Spheres is an eight-part musical companion piece to Destiny, composed by Marty O’Donnell together with Michael Salvatori and Paul McCartney. Parts of the music were used to accompany a Destiny trailer at E3 2013, and in the official soundtrack. But following O’Donnell’s dismissal from and subsequent legal dispute with Bungie, Music of the Spheres remained unreleased. It was leaked to the Internet by unknown persons in December 2017. Bungie officially released the album on June 1, 2018.

From an interview with Bungie’s Community Manager Eric Osbourne:

Paul McCartney wrote the score for this game.

He contributed orchestral elements to the game. We have a team of composers here in the building who actually score the game to the action, so they put in a lot of work. We don’t want to dismiss those guys. But Paul contributing to the soundtrack is amazing. And he wrote a new single for the game as well.

Yes, but the guy wrote “Hey Jude.” How on Earth did you convince him to do music for a video game? How did you pitch this to him, and why do you think he did it? I’m guessing that there was an enormous check involved.

There was no check involved, big or otherwise. He’s in it for the creativity. He got a wonderful opportunity to reach an audience that wouldn’t typically be immersed in Paul McCartney. They might hear the name — of course he’s everywhere, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Olympics, obviously he’s touring and recording nonstop — but he sees it as a way to reach a new audience that might not otherwise hear his music.

I’m really excited to be working on writing music with Bungie, the studio that made Halo.

Paul McCartney – From paulmccartney.com, July 7, 2012

I was intrigued by the intricacy of the music because in a game if you go one route a certain piece of the music plays. I know from my kids and my grandkids, they just bury themselves in a game and I don’t think they’ve got time to listen to my music. Their agenda is pretty full with all the other stuff, you know, so I like the idea of infiltrating into their agenda.

Paul McCartney, from interview with NME, December 2, 2014

I’m not very good at games. I’ve got so much else to be getting on with; I can’t have my face in a screen, you know, bopping along in a game. I had a go [at Destiny] and it was great, but I got mashed almost instantly. The aliens mashed me.

Paul McCartney, from interview with NME, December 2, 2014