Composer Marty O’Donnell worked for Bungie for 14 years, and is the (genius) composer behind the Destiny and Halo soundtracks; you know, the epic, sweeping, badass soundtracks that you still get stuck in your head a decade later? Here, I know I have it somewhere... ah! This.
Yeah, he's that guy. Fired without cause in 2014 (his claim), Bungie and O'Donnell ended their relationship "amicably" , but things ended up being pretty sour; court documents published by VentureBeat proved that Bungie snatched O’Donnell’s founder shares when he left the company, and he had to sue Bungie to get $95,019 for unpaid work, outstanding vacation time, and damages. Bungie taking his shares was predicated on a situation where O'Donnell left voluntarily, which a court ruled that he hadn't. His shares have been restored, but O'Donnell maintains that he still has not been given a reason for his termination.
One of the things O'Donnell fought about in court was the release of "Music of the Spheres", an 8 track collection of the music from Destiny (publisher Activision is on the hook for the non-release), and now it sounds like Bungie will finally release it, sending cease and desist orders to the reddit users and various internet music lovers who have searched and pieced together the soundtrack for public consumption on the ol' world wide web. It's a smart move from Bungie; the soundtrack was a collaboration between O'Donnell and friggin Paul McCartney. No way people are going to be interested in that.
Now, I am not a fan of internet piracy, but I've heard through my channels and contacts on the dark web that if you were to use something called "google", you could type in the name of the soundtrack and "results" would pop up, allowing you to "listen" to most if not all of this soundtrack right now.
You didn't hear it from me.
No release date has been set for the soundtrack as of this publishing.
