Opening (Destruction of the Space Colony)



Opening (Destruction of the Space Colony) is the iconic, eerie theme on the Title Screen in Super Metroid. It begins with an eerie portion as the text "1994 Nintendo Presents Metroid 3" is displayed on-screen, and while the camera is panning around the Lab on Ceres Space Colony, showing the Bioreactor System and the Lab Worker corpses.

The baby's screeches can be heard in the background. The theme then changes to a slow, foreboding remix of the series title theme, as the Title Screen comes into full view and the game's logo is displayed. The theme continues playing as the game displays the Demo Screen. After all of the footage has played, the Title Screen and music will loop around again. The theme is included on the Super Metroid: Sound in Action soundtrack, as well as ''Play it Loud! Original Soundtrack Volume 1, a compilation soundtrack of SNES game music from Nintendo Power''. 

A short remix of the first part of the theme is included in Metroid: Zero Mission during a cutscene as Samus is descending into Tourian. The cutscene shows four cloned Larva Metroids feasting on a Zebesian corpse, before they charge towards the camera.

The original theme can be heard here, and the remix in Zero Mission here.

Link on Tourian