Metroid Nest



Metroid Nest (as named in the Metroid: Samus Returns internal files) is the main theme of Phase 9/Area 8 in Metroid II: Return of Samus and Metroid: Samus Returns. In Return of Samus, Metroid Nest is a brooding and unsettling theme that plays throughout the area. After Samus rolls past the Metroid Egg and her Metroid Detector increases, the theme picks up in speed. It continues this way up until the last Larva Metroid is killed. At that point, a "blaring alarm" begins to play in the last corridor before the Queen Metroid. If Samus escapes the Queen battle, this theme can still be heard playing in the rooms before her chamber. It was originally composed by Ryoji Yoshitomi.

In Samus Returns, the theme's presence is reduced, and it is slower in tempo than the original version, but still eerie. It begins playing in the large vertical shaft filled with enemies, and continues until Samus encounters the first Larva Metroid, at which point a remix of the Tourian theme begins to play. The nest theme will still play in the rooms before on subsequent visits. It was re-arranged by Daisuke Matsuoka.

The original theme from Return of Samus can be heard here, and the theme from Samus Returns here.