Music of the Metal Gear series

The Metal Gear video games consist of 17 different albums, totaling over 940 minutes of music within the 11 games. Konami served as their own record label for all their Metal Gear music albums, with King Records serving as their initial distributor up until Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. From Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and onward, distribution was handled by Sony Music. Several different producers were used for different games. These include Konami, Masahiro Hinami, Noriakio Kamura, Norihiko Hibino, Tojima, Harry Gregson-Williams. Konami producing 6 out of the 11 Metal Gear games. The games used many different genres of music throughout the games. They are as follows: breakbeat, classical, drum and bass, electronic, hip hop, jazz, ambient, acoustic, Latin American, electronic rock, industrial metal, alternative metal, hard rock, power metal, neoclassical, romantic music, lounge, and rock and roll.