If you play the Alice in Chains song "Heaven Beside You" (one of my favorite AiC songs) over the SH3 intro video, it eerily syncs up really well.
1. Start the song when "You're Not Here" would
2. Pause for an extra second when the screen fades to black at "...'til now"
3. At the end, loop back to the scene with Douglas and Heather before the fadeout and repeat step 2.
Notable sync-ups:
"be what you want to be" (Heather at Lakeside Park)
"see what you came to see" (Heather looks at the knife)
"been what you want to be" (Heather pretending to be Alessa)
"I don't like what I see" (Closer eating a corpse)
"heaven beside you" (Harry's notebook in Heather's lap)
"hell within" (Heather drearily looks out the window)
"heaven beside you/hell within" (normal elevator/otherworld elevator)
Alice in Chains - Heaven Beside You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XKyB27fobk
SH3 intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz3ufaZCoVw
edit: After listening to the AiC album again, imagine a scenario where "Over Now" was used for the credits sequence. The lyrics fit on both a thematic and meta level. Has Yamaoka ever mentioned being a fan of Alice in Chains? I mean 2 unreleased tracks share names with AIC songs (Queen of the Rodeo and No Excuses) for seemingly no reason, and another, "All Screwed Up", sounds very '90s grunge-ish.
And on the other hand, later AIC songs "Your Decision" (the brief solo ~2 minutes in especially) and "Private Hell" remind me of "Theme of Laura" and "Overdose Delusion" respectively.
