Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection

Compilation album by the Metal Gear series

Released

July 18, 2007

Genre

Video game music

Length

64:53

Label

Konami Digital Entertainment

Producer

Norihiko Hibino

Metal Gear series chronology

Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Original Soundtrack
(2006)

Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection
(2007)

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Original Soundtrack
(2008)

Metal Gear 20th Anniversary: Metal Gear Music Collection is a compilation album released for the video game series Metal Gear on July 18, 2007. The album contains songs from various games in the series, as well as a new song titled "Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —", a medley spanning the whole series. The album was produced by Norihiko Hibino, who also composed three of the album's songs and co-arranged two tracks.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —" (instrumental)	various composers	14:25
2.	"Snake Eater"	Norihiko Hibino	2:57
3.	"Virtuous Mission" (instrumental)	Harry Gregson-Williams	6:06
4.	"Yell "Dead Cell"" (VR remix; instrumental)	Hibino	2:27
5.	"Who Am I Really? — Memories of Hal — Reminiscence" (instrumental)	Hibino	8:00
6.	"Metal Gear Solid Main Theme — The World Needs Only One Big Boss!" (instrumental)	TAPPY, Gregson-Williams	5:47
7.	"Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday"	Rika Muranaka	7:37
8.	"Zanzibar Breeze" (instrumental)	Mutsuhiko Izumi	5:37
9.	"Calling to the Night"	Akihiro Honda (music), Nobuko Toda (lyrics)	3:16
10.	"The Best Is Yet to Come"	Muranaka	5:53
11.	"Calling to the Night" (piano version; instrumental)	Honda	2:48

Game references

Tracks 1 and 11 previously unreleased
Tracks 2 and 3 from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Track 4 from Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Tracks 5 and 7 from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Track 6 taken from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Track 8 from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Track 9 from Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Track 10 from Metal Gear Solid

Personnel

Performers

Cynthia Harrell – vocals on "Snake Eater"
Carla White – vocals on "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday"
Natasha Farrow – vocals on "Calling to the Night"
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh – vocals on "The Best Is Yet to Come"

Music

Norihiko Hibino – production, arrangements on tracks 1 and 5
Yojiro Kudo – executive production
Hideo Kojima – executive production
Takahide Ayuzawa – arrangements on tracks 1 and 8
Shinya Kiyozuka – arrangements on tracks 5 and 11
Mutsuhiko Izumi – arrangements on track 8
Yukie Fuse – mastering
Kazuki Muraoka – supervision

Artwork

Ichiro Kutome – direction, design
Hiroshi Banno – coordination
Akira Kato – photography
Yoji Shinkawa – illustrations

Notes

1. ^ "Metal Gear 20 Years History — Past, Present, Future —" is a medley of a number of compositions previously released on various Metal Gear games.

References

"Metal Gear 20th Anniversary ~ Metal Gear Music Collection". Game-OST. Retrieved March 27, 2009.
"Metal Gear 20th Anniversary ~ Metal Gear Music Collection". Square Enix. Retrieved March 27, 2009.

Metal Gear

Games

Main series	Metal Gear Metal Gear 2 Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes 2: Sons of Liberty 3: Snake Eater 4: Guns of the Patriots Online Peace Walker V: Ground Zeroes V: The Phantom Pain

Other games	Snake's Revenge Ghost Babel Acid Acid 2 Portable Ops Mobile Touch Social Ops Rising: Revengeance

Collections	HD Collection The Legacy Collection

Characters

Soundtracks

People

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