I'd been listening to this soundtrack for about the last 14 years, so it was really awesome to finally get the Hell levels where this music played nearly nonstop for about an hour. It helps that the song is about as catchy as one gets on the entire soundtrack because, especially in a game where I died over 2,700 times, having good music that, in essence, cheers you on is key to rage-quitting into oblivion.
What I find interesting is that the song has five sections, each lasting about 15 seconds. There's the loud and exciting intro, which we'll get back to when the song loops. There's just no time to build up to presenting the main theme; it's just right there, in your face, overly loud, and appropriately full of energy. Then there's the keyboard wailing away, going all over the place. Then there's a bit of a break, with a rhythm guitar vamping while palm-muting (yes?) while the keyboards hold tied-together whole notes. The fourth section brings the energy back up with an excited keyboard doing runs left and right while the choir and chimes bring the churchy-Hell aspect back to the song. The fifth and final section is a bit of a callback to the earlier keyboard section that leads to a glissando of sorts, right back into the loud brashness of the beginning of the song.
It really is an amazing piece of music in one of the more fun and less frustrating (but still equally frustrating) series of levels in the game (don't at me, I know there're the Dark World levels, the retro levels, Super Meat World levels, and Cotton Candy Alley to deal with).
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