Blackened Blue’s Metal treats are always such display of lovely lyricism about events from episodes, retelling them using the power of rock music! It feels so great to get a musical enactement of Twilight’s antics in S09E05 The Point of No Return, along the screaming vocals and the blissful sound of the guitars!
Metal
[P@D] DivinumX – Kindling | Melodic Metal
DivinumX is always good for some hard-hitting metal and for Ponies at Dawn: Skyward, he brings his ‘A’ game! Kindling is the story of Rainbow Dash telling how she started in the shadow of greatness, longing to be one of the greats who casts that shadow in front of a kindling flame. The vocal work is just incredible, perfecting utilizing the spectrum of techniques from clean singing, guttural screams, and chill-inducing harmonies. The guitar work is fantastic, pairing incredibly with the double pedal bass on the powerful drums making for an all-around top-level song!
StableTwoStallion – Chrysalis | Industrial Gothic Metal / Neue Deutsche Härte
My Heart Burns for Chrysalis! The Rammstein fans among you who can translate their German titles might get that reference, and just in time for StableTwoStallion’s “Neue Deutsche Härte” track that feels just like Rammstein’s take on a pony song! The lyrics and vocals are so perfect and make the track so nostalgic, and the top-notch instrumental isn’t lacking of Industrial tasty riffs and Gothic keyboard play either!
[P@D] Reverbrony – The Orca’s Mercy | Metal/Instrumental
Reverbrony is well-known for his powerful metal tracks. Featured on the new Ponies at Dawn: Skyward compilation album, The Ocra’s Mercy is a heavy hitting piece that prominently features Reverb’s talent for layering lead guitars with the rhythmic tracks. The swift-moving riffs on top of each other create a pretty cool spinning sensation with the sound and the creative use of harmonics in the outro are just a couple of the incredible features you can look forward to with this song!
SDreamExplorerS – Ephemeral II: Parallels | Album | Prog Rock / Prog Metal
SDreamExplorerS’ newest album is here, and boy does it deliver! Always sparked from deep experiences and pony inspirations, and calling the listener to reflect, this one takes us on quite the unique journey as it features such a wide array of genres! And you can tell how much love has been poured into each of the tracks, ranging from Progressive Metal to Ambient to Samba to Jazz and even to crazy bass play! (Perhaps there needs to be a new genre to fit to Soul’s unique musical endeavors in these!) An impressive compilation of reflections and meticulously crafted masterpieces that is just a must-have! Grab your copy from a Bandcamp near you!
[P@D] L-Train & TheMusicReborn – Once And Future Heroes | Metal/Jazz Fusion
If you haven’t downloaded Ponies at Dawn: Skyward yet, you really should. The album is filled with great quality music from such diverse producers, and Once And Future Heroes may be the best example of just that! L-Train teams up with TheMusicReborn to bring a powerhouse combination of epic metal with a big-toned trumpet to create a heroic anthem for our main protagonists. The pacing is incredible as the track contains so much energy, and never gets sloppy with the flow. The controlled tempo builds beautifully as the trumpet lets loose a powerful leading tone, complimenting the rest of the mix in a very moving, unique piece!
[P@D] Osoch – An Eclipsed Land (feat. Pablo Mono & Chris Wöhrer) | Progressive Metal / Metalcore
Imagine Dream Theater mixed with Killswitch Engage. This song gives off the best feels from both of those iconic bands! Coming from the most recent Ponies at Dawn album, Skyward. A big sensation in brony metal scene, Osoch collaborated with Chris Wöhrer and Osoch’s friend from college, Pablo Mono. An Eclipsed Land is inspired by Fallout Equestria:Project Horizons, and is a great headbanging track for metalheads. The progression of the guitar riffs, mixed with Mono’s clean vocals and Wöher’s growls, make this song a treat and one of the best on Skyward! Good job on this one! Keep it up with the headbanging tunes!
Download or buy Skyward on a bandcamp near you.
[P@D] Blackend Blue – Wrath | Melodic Metalcore
2000’s Metalcore style nostalgia feels are coming with this great track produced by Blackend that it’s featured on the most recent album of Ponies At Dawn – Skyward!
The vocals are on perfection, the lyrics that are about Twilight Sparkle dealing with her inner demons. The breakdown of this song is brutal, I headbanged while listening to this. This surely is a treasure hidden on the entire Ponies At Dawn brand.
Download or buy Skyward on P@D bandcamp.
MelodyBrony & Danny Cross – This Kingdom | Metal
MelodyBrony has been on a roll lately and the licks keep coming as he teams up with talented vocalist, Danny Cross to make this hard-hitting track! This Kingdom features tight guitar-work with ever satisfying riffs and a drum kit you can feel as Cross details the plight of keeping the titular kingdom safe from the threats in the darkness. Another classic in his ever-improving repertoire, be sure to check out Melody’s newest!
Brownie – The Beginning of a New | Metal
Expressing gratitude and love with the power of heavy metal, Brownie got it right! Headbang while drowning in sweet feelings with The Beginning of a New, a love letter to the community and the show that covers the MLP theme song and features meaningful and heart-warming lyrics, expressed powerfully with the blissful Metal vocals and instrumental!
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