Ponies at Dawn: Ignite has brought us many incredible collaborations and this track features a power trio for the ages! Blackened Blue brings in the talents of some of the best guitarists and songwriters the fandom has ever known – Prince Whateverer and L-Train for a heavy, early 2000s sound. Spark features heavy metal chugs, record scratches, grungy vocals, and more! The guitar solo is as sick as one should expect with this team and the entire song is something that really needs to be experienced!
Original
[P@D] Quadrivia – Amulet | Complextro / Hardcore
Quadrivia has been a staple of Ponies at Dawn for some time now and Amulet is a hard-hitting banger based around everyone’s favorite magician horse! This song features a heavy bass design with a few surprise twists along the way. The latter-portion of the track features a gabber-style hardcore section that goes super hard, adding to the intensity of an already exciting addition to Ignite!
Midnight Frenzy – Spiral Harmonies ft. Emily Koch | Showtunes
For those of you that remember the great DuoCartoonist musical collaborations, a big part of those songs came from Spiral Harmonies (for those of you that don’t remember those videos – look them up right away!). After some re-orchestration, they have re-released the remastered version of Midnight Frenzy, a lively and very playful track based around Luna as a child, getting into trouble and having fun through the night. The orchestration is incredible with all the instruments building upon each other while Emily Koch’s voice shines as the incredibly lovable Luna character.
Night Blaze – Facing Night Mare (Extended) | Orchestral
Night Blaze likes action-packed musical pieces and Facing Night Mare is a great example of that exact kind of exciting compositions. This track has a lot of moving instrumental parts from distorted guitars contemplating the powerful percussion, violins that introduce the tension, choir voices adding intensity, and much more! A tribute to the Princess of Night, you can feel the battle-like intensity in this track!
Jess Furman, Ethan Roberts, and Lauren Dyson – Pony Life Theme Song (Rod Steven Remix) | Eurobeat
It’s basically tradition for pony songs to get Eurobeat remixes, and of course, with Pony Life having such an energetic theme song, it was inevitable for it to get remixed as well! This short track does just that, remixing the theme song with some epic Eurobeat music. The original lyrics mix very well with the new music, and the track is way faster than the original, making this a fun track overall!
Noc – Empty Horizons | Original Audiobook Soundtrack | Soundtrack / Orchestral
I’d first like to preface this write-up by saying how much I love fanfiction, like almost as much as brony music, and that I’m reading Empty Horizons now and so far it’s really good. So, onto the album! It’s a soundtrack to an audiobook, which I’ve never really seen before. There are 15 awesome tracks on here, and each one is distinct and memorable. There are some really cinematic tracks, like the Main Theme and Twilight Falls, and string-heavy tracks like Rarity’s Theme, but all the tracks, in general, are packed with passion and emotion, and overall they all add to the vibe of the story.
Hearse Percy (feat. ThatMusicBrony) – Unwind (PegasYs Remix) | Glitch Hop
In season with summer, PegasYs introduces a remix of a piece from his duo with Faulty. PegasYs has utilized the house elements of the original to create a commending glitch-hop tune, with an emphasis on hop! The original consists of a fantastically dubious artist’s name and romantic vocal work from ThatMusicBrony. PegasYs’s remix ushers in the heftiest of wubs along with the sunny addition of steel drums. After the aforementioned wubs, the tune slowly reverberates and bit-crushes itself out of existence, leaving you with the temptation of the replay button.
[P@D] Forest Rain – The Spark Overture | Pop Ballad
This song made me tear up at the release party, and every time, I still get close to tears; Forest Rain has once again perfectly captured the love I think we all share of the magical land of Equestria. With the masterful use of motifs sprinkled throughout the song, and other technical tidbits such as incredibly emotional dynamics, she draws out a level of emotion in me that I haven’t felt in quite some time, and it’s wonderfully refreshing. I also can’t get over the absolute beauty that is her voice, covering such a wide range of expression. A masterpiece of a track, indeed.
The track is available as part of P@D Ignite.
[ETC] deførmed – TREE IS DEAD | Hardcore
WOW OK THIS HITS WOW!!! I still haven’t got around to listening to this whole album, but this track is NUTS! The vocals are soo powerful, and the atmosphere is insane!! Big fan of this track, I can’t wait to here more from deførmed!
[ETC] Enuna – Vitamin D | Gabber
Hardcore isn’t usually my forte, but Enuna knows how to deliver! Starting out with nothing more than a drum beat and a repeating sample of “Sunshine, sunshine ladybugs awake!”, this immediately comes in crisp and hard with very intricate and subtle textures. The energy and concussive force doesn’t let up and constantly evolves and progresses and you definitely don’t want to miss this or the rest of the album for that matter!
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