- Mortal Kombat as a whole has some pretty good tunes, but the Genesis port remixed almost all of the music to fit the Genesis' sound chip. And it did so damn fine, courtesy of expert Genesis composer Matt Furniss. To give an example, here's his take on the game's main menu theme
. His themes are so beloved by fans that some consider his arrangements better than even Dan Forden's original versions. - Mortal Kombat X:
- The main theme. Makes you want to hang around the menus for a while and prepare for the upcoming fight.
- "The Destroyed City", one of the more popular themes on the soundtrack, and a good throwback to the style of music featured in the 3D fighting games.
- The main theme.
- Mortal Kombat 11:
- The trailer for Geras' reveal uses a brutal instrumental version of "Decimator" by All Good Things.
- The launch trailer has a pretty impressive remix of the classic "Mortal Kombat" theme.
- The Tournament stage in the game itself uses a different, but no less kickass version of the "Techno Syndrome".
- For the stage music themselves, a lot of fans particularly like the somber "Shang Tsung's Island Ruins" and the trap-meets-metal of "Black Dragon Fight Club".
- Shao Kahn's trailer uses the balls-crushingly awesome "Soul Crusher" by Liquid Cinema.
- "Rise" plays during the start of the credits. Listen closely, and you'll realize it's a remix of the song used in the debut trailer. Coming off Story Mode's ending, it truly does feel make you feel like you've witnessed the end of an era.
- Spawn's trailer uses two songs; a pitched down version of "IX" and a spine-chilling instrumental of "Scattering the Ashes".
- The trailer for Geras' reveal uses a brutal instrumental version of "Decimator"
- Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero: Quan Chi's boss theme is an intense, threatening tune, Shinnok's subsequent fight having a track that is somehow both ethereal and groovy, until it kicks into high gear during the Beast/Corrupted Shinnok phase, as short (and difficult) as it is.
- Mortal Kombat: The Movie's soundtrack is still the best-selling game-to-movie soundtrack ever and was the fastest EDM album ever to reach 1 million sales in the U.S. at the time, doing it in 10 days. Besides the main theme, there's the remix of said theme by Utah Saints, the instrumental version of "Control" that plays while Liu Kang and Reptile are fighting, "Halycon and On and On"... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
- Even as bad as the second movie is, the music is still awesome. The redone theme is a highlight.
- One of Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm's stronger points was Jonathan Sloate's score. Just listen to the ending theme (which is a Suspiciously Similar Song to the movie's main theme).
