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!
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Fire Frets – Chasing Fate (Covering 4everfreebrony & Relative1Pitch) | Country
Fire Frets serves us with an incredible cover here at the apple orchard for Applejack day, delivering an honest and masterful performance of 4everfreebrony’s original song Chasing Fate featuring Relative1Pitch. Every instrument played with much passion, the musical ride takes us through the emotional piano melodies, the beautiful violin performance from Relative1Pitch, wonderful new vocals, and blissful guitar play, to retell the moving story. The Apple family truly would be proud.
Reverbrony – Reflections | Metal
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.
Dr. Somepony – Journey | Metal
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.
Soul Strings – A Contrived Sporadic (Covering ShinZm) | Progressive Metal
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.
Frozen Night – Flowers In The Rain | Atmospheric Metal
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.
Reverbrony – Breaking Point | Metal
In pure spirit of rock music, Reverbrony delivers a new honest Metal piece full of delightfully heavy riffs and expressions of lunar frustration, along lyrics brought to life by none other than himself on the vocals. Let’s cheer for an encore!
Chris Wöhrer -When You Are Supposed To Socialize But Turn Your Friends Into Mindless Zombies Instead | Metal
NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 8 November 2016.
Well, that’s quite the track name! Insane track name length aside, this piece about Starlight Glimmer’s escapades is awesome in all the right ways. It’s got some pretty non-stop energy, and the guitar riffs are all pretty great. It’s also cool to be able to see Chris Wohrer playing live courtesy of the video, where he (intentially or not, I don’t know!) pulls all sorts of amusing faces along the way. If that sounds like fun to you, make sure to check it out below!
The L-Train & Cyril The Wolf – Attitude & Altitude | Metal
NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 6 November 2016.
The L-Train has started up a new project where he’s working with 6 different collaborators on 6 different genres to make songs about 6 different ponies, and this piece for Rainbow Dash with Cyril the Wolf is the first! Full of energy, cleanly mixed and featuring some pretty awesome metal vocals, this track definitely suits Rainbow Dash’s style, and it’s awesome to hear some new metal stuff from L-Train, who is definitely one of the best at it in the fandom. Make sure to check it out below!
Silver Note – Fabulousity (feat. Sterling Fusion) | Pop Rock
NB: This was originally posted on Equestria Daily on 6 November 2016.
Silver Note returns with a new track featuring some extra vocals from Sterling Fusion. Whilst this song isn’t especially long and some of the lyrics are a bit odd (‘makes me feel like an elephant??’), what is on show is a really well produced and fun pop rock track. The repetition of vocals in the chorus works really well, and it’s definitely pretty catchy.
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