Awesome Music / RuneScape

With over one thousand unique songs, Runescape currently holds the world record for the most original music in one game. Among them, there are bound to be some standouts.

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• First things first, the game's old main theme, Scape Main. Utterly. Epic.
• Newbie Melody, one of the most iconic and beloved tracks in the game's history.
• Harmony, with its waltz rhythm and seamless blend of a major and minor section, each with different instruments, is one of the most nostalgic pieces, to the point that most of the YouTube comments reminisce about the game in its infancy.
• Sea Shanty 2 is iconic to the point of its catchiness and memorability being the subject of Memetic Mutation. Runescape 3's reworked version isn't too bad either.
• Runescape's MIDI power! becomes apparent in "Route Of The Problem", which is the second in a series of amazing tracks, all based on the same theme. The first is "Alternative Root" and the third is "The Route of All Evil."
• Temple Desecrated is among the best songs heard in the game. It plays when you face down the Balance Elemental in While Guthix Sleeps.
• Attack 2 plays when you fight Elvarg at the end of the Dragon Slayer quest. A fitting song to play while fighting the final f2p boss.
• Other good tracks are Battle of Souls, which plays when you fight Nomad in Nomad's Requiem; The Sound of Guthix (plays on your way to the Stone of Jas (also WGS)); Face Off plays during the fight with Zanik in The Chosen Commander; But We Can Fight plays at the Wham Line of The Chosen Commander; and lastly The Void Stares Back plays when you fight the Pest Queen.
• Return of Lucien takes Temple Desecrated to the next level.
• Another from The Chosen Commander, during the cutscene with Zanik in the caverns, and then after you defeat the avatar of Bandos. The music makes things even more heartwarming.

• Christmas Caverns. For a Christmas song, it manages to reach the heights of numerous modern Christmas songs in terms of quality.
• The "Deathcon II" quest of Halloween 2011 provides "DCII Mash-up (Infinity Mix)", an awesome techno track mixed by the talented spider DJ Infinity, previously known as Minstrel Web. As a remix, it's actually said to bear similarity to two other great tracks, "Zaros Stirs" and "Zaros Zeitgeist".
• Upir Likhyi is about as rousing a boss theme as you'll ever hear.
• "One Piercing Note" is a quest designed around sound and music, and is the first quest to be entirely voice acted. When you first walk up to the abbey, you hear Valerio the troubadour playing an impressive tune. When you enter the abbey, you learn that they practice music in their worship. Their choir sings about St. Elspeth, and is also quite impressive. As you continue the quest, you'll wander between Valerio and the abbey a few times, and the music will change accordingly. At the climax of the quest, one more new track starts to play, "Citharede Requiem". It switches between the choir singing their song about St. Elspeth, and Valerio singing outside about the woman whose death you've been investigating. The two songs complement each other perfectly, providing an excellent backdrop as you chase the killer throughout the abbey.
• Tzhaar Supremacy I, a fine example of a good use of heavy percussions.
• Wending Through the Willows, which is beautiful enough to be a quest reward.

• They've even started updating old tracks too! The tracks "Tears of Guthix" and The Power of Tears have been updated along with the Tears of Guthix D&D rework.
• Blue Wizards, The Harmony of the Runes, the reworked Vision, and Bloody Foundation, which are all part of the two quests introducing the Signature Hero Ariane.
• Memories of Guthix, from The World Wakes.
• The updated Pest Control music perfectly captures the chaotic nature and gravity of the fight against the alien incursion.
• Nightmare at the Cradle, a rousing piece used in the frantic Hold the Line segment of Fate of the Gods.
• Scape Summon, a variation on the Runescape theme released with the Summoning skill in 2008. The song has a primal energy to it that perfectly fits Summoning's core concept.
• Book of a Thousand Songs. Hard to not remember your past adventures in Gielinor while listening to this song.
• From The World Wakes, Boulder and Brighter and End Song, heralding the end and beginning of an Age respectively.

• Elven Sunrise, Elven Sunlight, and Elven Sunset, unlocked in Prifddinas. Elven Mother plays in Seren's chambers, while Elven Elite plays at the Max Guild and can be considered the closest Runescape has to endgame music.
• Tuska, Electric Storm, Broken Land, Seed of Hope, and Lost Souls, from the Tuska world event.

• From Hero's Welcome, Abomination, a fast-paced, chaotic battle theme that plays during the final confrontation with Tarshak in his One-Winged Angel form.
• Beastmaster Durzag's theme is full of catchy, intense drum beats that will make you feel you are literally fighting a horde of monsters inside the arena. He's not called Beatmaster Durzag for nothing.
• Heart of Gielinor (aka God Wars Dungeon 2) features four boss themes, which all fit their backgrounds: Vindicta's theme Dragon Rider, Twin Furies' theme Song of the Furies, Helwyr's theme Helwyr's Hymn, and finally Gregorovic's theme Gregorovic. The latter is notable for its heavy modern dubstep elements. Later we get Anima, a majestic theme for Telos, the Warden.

• Whatever you may think of it, Sliske's Endgame had some amazing music. One of the best new tracks is Champions of Sliske. A three-way mashup of Battered Soul, Run, Escape!, and 'Gregorovic?' YES PLEASE. And to top it off, the final fight with Sliske himself has Dying Light II, a reprise of the original song from Missing, Presumed Death with an extra layer of epic.
• Every single track from the Shattered Worlds. All of them portray their location - a chaotic mangled mess of different parts of Runescape - perfectly, by lifting elements of lots of various tracks from the game. Of particular note is the first one, Shattered Worlds I. While it might not have the same cohesion of the other ones, the way it implements and twists some of the most famous tracks from the game creates a very unique feel.

• "Angel of Death (Prelude)" and "Angel of Death" are epic One Woman Wails that set the mood for the hard mode version of the fight with Nex.
• Webbed Feat, the theme for Araxxor's boss fight, is perfect for a battle against a Giant Spider by combining epic percussion beats with a creepy mix of other sounds.
• Chaos of Corruption is a short track of discordant noise that plays during the part of the battle with Seiryu the Azure Serpent where the player races to destroy the crystals controlling him before the corruption restores them. These terrifying sounds of evil will definitely get your adrenaline going for this crucial part of the battle.
• Kneel to Your God encapsulates the tragedy of what happens when it plays during Desperate Measures. Which is, of course, Spoilers.
• The Shadow Colossus, the theme of Raksha, is an epic song combining electric guitar, Ominous Latin Chanting, and more to get you in the mood for a challenging boss fight.
• Azzanadra's Quest delivers Lullaby for an Elder God upon discovering the Elder Halls. An eerie, sobering tune laden with Ominous Latin Chanting that underscores how the clock is ticking for the current universe unless something is done.
• All the EGWD bosses have excellent boss music.
  • Kerapac has The Cursed Warrior, befitting the leader of Dragonkin, trapped in time.
  • The Arch-Glacor has Arch-Nemesis, reminiscent of a choir, complete with wind chime like effects.
  • Croesus has The Graveyard, which turns the boss from an RPG soundtrack to a horror soundtrack, filling the player with that sense of dread as the lone piano plays the eerie tune, encapsulating your fight with the immortal fungus.
  • Zuk's theme, "The Glory of Combat", combines the electric guitar, bass riff and tribal drum beat with the aesthetic of the TzHaar chanting in support of their leader and ultimate warrior - TzKal-Zuk. And when the final Elder God Wars trailer was released, this was what scored it. Make no mistake, when Jagex wants to announce something big - they go all in on it.

Dungeoneering

• Born to do this, a heroic main theme of Daemonheim. Shadow-Forger Ihlakhizen's theme puts a new take on that.

• The track for Luminiscient Icefiend starts slow and ominous, then grows to a glorious (read: The Lord of the Rings) peak just before the end.
• Most of the Dungeoneering tracks really do fit with the atmosphere in the theme you're currently dunging on. On frozen floors there's random 'chilling' sounds showing that you are actually in a freezing area. The music is often rather slow too. In the Furnished floors the music makes you feel like you're breaking into a castle full of armed guards, hence the fast-paced themes. On the occult floors things get freaky what with all the necromancers, reanimated zombies and demons. The music is full of church organs, drums and ominous incorrehent chanting. The ambient sounds inbetween battles sound freaky too, as if the place was haunted. Finally, in the Warped floors, music becomes heavy, twisted, random and intriguing, fit with the theme of being too close to whatever grand power warps the guard dogs', rats' and brutes' bodies.

Old School

• The upbeat Pick & Shovel plays in the Motherlode Mine.
• Coil, a sorrowful, daunting piece that accompanies Zulrah's boss fight.
• Scorpia Dances, a slow, menacing organ theme for when you meet the giant scorpion under the Wilderness.
• Kourend the Magnificent, the powerful, imposing theme of Great Kourend.
• Fire in the Deep, the theme of the Great Olm, combines the themes of the warped floors with a tense piano and pipe organ.
• The fittingly epic Monkey Badness plays during the final battle against Glough in Monkey Madness 2.
• A Thorn in My Side makes the Farming Guild soundtrack into a surprisingly intense boss theme for the fight with the Hespori.
• A Kingdom Divided gives us two great boss themes: the slow but intimidating Judgement in the Depths for the Judge of Yama, and The Part Where You Die, the frantic, desperate-sounding theme for the fight against Xamphur.
• Fittingly for being played in one of the hardest PVM challenges in the game, Inferno is a truly epic melodic death metal-esque track. It was even remixed in Runescape 3 as "The Glory of Combat".
• A Forgotten Religion, the powerful and mysterious theme of the Forthos Dungeon, and Sarachnis, the fast-paced theme of the gigantic mother spider.
• Tempor of the Storm, the surprisingly jaunty theme for Tempoross.
• Sadly, most of the music used in The Fremennik Exiles is recycled themes from Glorious Memories, Blood Runs Deep, and Hero's Welcome. The exception, however, is the kickass Reign of the Basilisk, Jormungand's theme, which is an instrumental rock remix of Ballad of the Basilisk, V's theme from 3.
• The fight with Nex includes a remixed version of her old theme, Zaros Zeitgeist, then kicks into high gear with the pulse-pounding The Angel's Fury, a Theme Music Power-Up that samples the Angel of Death theme and is every bit as good.
• The goofy, lighthearted Troll Shuffle and Mother Ruckus.
• Song of the Elves is a legendary and melancholy piano driven piece accompanied by cymbals, a harp and a string ensemble that plays while completing the light puzzle during the eponymous quest. The song fits the Prifddinas library well and gives you something nice to listen to as you complete that hours-long puzzle.

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