NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 9 December 2016.
Another new track from Prince’s recent album Reinvent, this piece features all the trademarks of a great PW track – with strong clean vocals from the man himself, excellent production, a neat typography video and some really cool growling vocals from NRGpony. Make sure to check it out below!
I remember when the original version of this came out around a year ago or so. Now Soul Strings has taken Rossiboys’ original and turned it from an indie/alt rock anthem into a heavier metal-sounding track, with great results! All picked up by ear, and the solo has even been modified to fit the heavier feel of this version.
NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 30 November 2016.
I have just been loving Frozen Night’s releases recently. It feels like they’ve crossed that precipice into producing consistently high quality works. This one is no different, an 8 minute orchestral metal epic about Queen Chrysalis. It slides between heavy, powerful metal sections and more serene, light, almost ambient sections as well. The build in power around 4 minutes in is especially enjoyable to listen to. Definitely an awesome piece of work from Frozen, and well worth a listen.
NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 28 November 2016.
Elias Frost has teamed up with a couple of other artists to finish up his month of German-language show song covers in a big way! Probably one of the coolest interpretations of this track, the use of different language vocals help this one stick out a lot. The vocals from Ice Gaze are sung in English however, which means there’s a bit of both in this track! The instrumental is pretty solid too, and a lot heavier than some of the other recent stuff Elias has done.
More community voted Top 10 songs, and a good half of them came from Ponies At Dawn: Voyager, great job by the entire P@D collective. Anyway, take a look at which pony songs* made it into the top 10 this month.
*Oh, and Say by BlackGryph0n & Baasik is in there too for whatever reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is my jam!! An amazing fusion made possible by a most lovely collaboration, this Skacore track blends Francis Vace‘s Ska-Punk style and vocals with The L-Train’s signature Metal sound for a combination of vocal styles and an instrumental of much originality and force, sublimated by a masterful trumpet play from TheMusicReborn. While it looks like our friend Anon is in trouble, we sure are getting the special treatment from Pinkie as she inspired such a wonderful collab. Among the delightful Ska vibes, the heavy guitar riffs, and both the softer and harsher vocals from Francis, this impressive song will take any party to its peak, perhaps triggering an Overdrive!
Quite literally reflecting both the depth and the power of the Night and Luna’s feelings, this new instrumental piece from Reverbrony does an incredible job at delighting our rock spirit over a solid progression filled with awesome riffs and beautiful guitar melodies, always with a top-notch drums and bass accompaniment, to provide a blissful experience to rock out to, or to reflect to.
It’s always so awesome to get a new release from Dr. Somepony, made through hard work and despite all the difficulties he’s facing, and this piece centered around the events of the fateful episode The Times They Are A Changeling along its meaningful and emotional cover art certainly delivers, with a Metal instrumental of much grace and emotion, expressing such events and feelings with force along the mighty guitar riffs and solos.
Inspired by the amazing intrumental work of ShinZm, Soul Strings covered A Contrived Sporadic and not only the new instrumental pays much tribute to the original, but the added vocals also pay tribute to the original theme of Twilight while focusing on the headcanon of her immortality. We certainly do need more pony Prog Metal (and Prog Rock!) so such a cover is so very welcome.
Off The Ethereal Forest, this new release is another of my recent favorites, in which we witness the might of Atmospheric Metal when led by such a talented composer as Frozen Night, making the soul wander in awe along the guitars and starry piano during a progression of much sensitivity, for a finale of much force and emotion.
Horse Music Herald 