If you enjoy this kind of music, you'll like Shostakovitch. His 11th Symphony has this same style of music, and I've always felt like I was watching Aliens while listening to it. The two minutes in the following clip have the same build-up, rhythm, and style as the Bishop's Countdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVL3vtZ-z6g&feature=youtu.be...

Yeah, Shostakovich was brilliant.

The ending of this piece reminds me of the ending of Symphony no 4 - with a quiet delicate bell sound, after starting with a grotesque, whacky march.

(A) start: https://youtu.be/I7U2WzC47sQ?t=246

(B) ending: https://youtu.be/I7U2WzC47sQ?t=3488

How did he go from A to B?

Reminds me of mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

I love Mars (worth noting Holst wrote it between 1914 and 1916), it's jaw-dropping to discover all the references that John WiIliams was inspired from for Star Wars' music... https://youtu.be/5pM2SozsyPE

Also, obligatory Venture Bros reference ;) https://youtu.be/K0iTfasIpLc?t=1m34s

The last 35 second of Mars (when I first listened to it a couple years ago) made think that was what the used in a scene at the beginning of the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, final 40 seconds of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1WomfhjyVM

Listening to them side by side they are not really the same at all. I think the Hitchhiker's version is just a comically extended version of it.

That sounds like part of the OST of one Star Trek movie (Star Trek 8, in fact), and a dozen more movies I saw.

So the Amen Break of epic music