The original score for "Command & Conquer: Red Alert" was composed by Frank Klepacki and was voted the best video game soundtrack of 1996 by PC Gamer and Gameslice magazines. Among his most famous songs from the series is the theme of "Red Alert", titled "Hell March", which accents the style of the game with adrenalized riffs of electric guitar, the sounds of marching feet, and synthesizers to a dramatic chant. Originally intended to be the theme for the Brotherhood of Nod faction in the "Covert Operations" expansion to the original 1995 "Command & Conquer" game, the track eventually ended up enlisting itself as a staple in the "Red Alert" series instead, and a second version of "Hell March" was specifically created for "".