Hades II - Into Tartarus

Composed by Darren Korb.

Hades II is a trademark of Supergiant Games, LLC. The soundtrack is © 2024 Supergiant Games, LLC. All rights reserved.

[soup]

The theme of entering a room only to immediately get targeted by a comically large amount of lasers

[Treeskrub]

Hades really meant it when he wanted Zag to test out his security huh

[myhairhasamindofitsown]

The fact that the first thing Chrono's says when you enter Tartarus amounts to "get out my frontyard" is hilarious

[dubbymazlo]

Can't believe we're fighting tooth and nail to go there now...

[someone...]

Very clever how its "Out of Tartarus" in the first game, and "Into Tartarus" here

[Resstarr]

No traitor to the House shall go unpunished.

[carmacksanderson]

When I first beat the Region 3 boss and this started playing, I have never more strongly felt "oh, it's fucking on"

[NoahMcGuire]

The way that this builds up as you make your way closer and closer, the callback to the first game, the fact that there are several room layouts are literally the same as Tartarus rooms in H1 but you go through them backwards...truly amazing. Really gets you hype for the final fight.

[WILTEDSYS]

the fact that you guys are circling back around to the formula of having to descend, instead of the ascension theme from the previous game, but in this instance, it feels fresh and new, is extremely impressive lmao

[StaunchKillah]

Running through hell eviscerating everything with a giant axe while Mel is dropping the most metal one-liners and this ridiculous track plays... the Doomguy in my heart shed manly tears

[jutai]

Hooo, this one is an absolute winner.

The callback to Out of Tartarus is *perfection*

[brycryfry]

this is like if the transistor ost and hades ost made out and had a baby

[jldragon]

"get off my lawn" "make me old man"

[chlorohexidineesquire]

Yeah everyone's talking about the Out of Tartarus motifs but at 2:56 there's motifs from one of the Temple of Styx tracks!! Which makes sense, considering what enemies are especially common around this area.

[fruitsnackbandit]

okay, I figured it out. During the vamp, It's simply a 4/4 groove at a slowish tempo. During the A Melody, (the Tartarus theme from Hades 1), The time switches to 8+8+5 in eighth notes. which can be read as two bars of 4/4 and then one bar of 5/8. After that, the B melody is alternating 4/4 and 7/4 bars. This song is fucking awesome

[bellringer]

Gotta say properly my favorite song in the game.
Like the rush you get when you are fully kitted and rushing down the corridors slaughtering everything to reach Chronos. Its amazing

[goose]

Hearing this the first time I reached Tartarus made me so fucking hyped. Made it feel like I was actually running out of time, but nearly there.

I died of course, but still.

[ftninja]

I hear it in every song. The ever ticking metronome. The clock that never stops.
No, I will pull out the hands, face and then cogs if I must to silence it.
Death to Cronos.

[jecrex]

If you find your friend in Tartarus, it's got 2 callbacks. Spoilers below.





You meet Hades in Sisiphis' old chamber. Bouldy is there. A remix of In the Blood plays while you converse with him.

[Automatonon]

I love the way this has a very similar chord progression to "At Doom's Gate" creating that assosciation of fighting your way into "hell" while also maintaining its clalbacks to the first game. Absolutely incredible.