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Horse Music Hotspot – May 2016 [P@D: Awakening Special]

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Our May episode of  the Hotspot is up! You can listen back to it on YouTube, on SoundCloud, or using your favourite podcast app (click here for more info). To listen in live, tune in to Ponyville FM at 10pm Eastern on the last Sunday of each month!

A special extended edition of the hotspot this month to celebrate the release of Ponies At Dawn: Awakening not too long ago. We chose our favourite songs from the album to showcase at the start of the show, followed by our usual picks from the last month.

Embeds and full tracklist available after the break.

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Frozen Night – Heartstrings | Atmospheric Metal

Ambiant, Orchestral and Metal composer Frozen Night completes the reflective setting of the artwork with a beautiful, melodic, uplifting yet soothing Atmospheric Metal track, and even its name is implying emotion! Gaze at that somptuous view of the Crystal Empire while letting the magic from the music happen…

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The L-Train presents the Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra – Fall of an Empire | Symphonic Metal


After 18 months in the making, and marking the longest and biggest project he’s ever created, The L-Train proudly presents to us Fall of an Empire, an opera by the Royal Canterlot Symphonic Metal Orchestra. His second symphonic rock opera, following Moonrise from early 2014, this 50-minute epic tells the rise and fall of King Sombra, and features contributions from dozens of talented artists from the fandom. Take a seat, put on your best headphones, and prepare for a musical journey unlike any other. Full album opera writeup after the break.

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idkQuicksilver – Luna’s Future (Covering Daniel Ingram) | Metal

Here we have a short but sweet metal arrangement of Luna’s Future from idkQuicksilver with Aloma Steele’s vocals fitting alongside VERY nicely. I hope we get to see more 8-string guitar action from Quicksilver soon, it’s sounding fantastic!

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Soul Strings – Lost Dimension III | Post-Rock

Hope y’all are ready for something big. Soul Strings has just released a third part to his Lost Dimension series (have some links to part 1 & part 2), a collection of epic instrumental post-rock tracks based around a good deal of ethereal headcanon and what seems like fanfic ideas. Regardless, it’s pretty awesome, go take a listen!

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Lycan Dese Beats – Season 2 Episode 13

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So here’s something we’re going to try out – posting podcasts and episodes of radio shows (as well as our own). To start off, we’re celebrating the return of Lycan Dese Beats after a few weeks’ break with yesterday’s episode…

Lycan Dese Beats brings you the latest and greatest songs of the fandom. This week, we bring you Christmas in May, Remixes of last week’s Pony Episode “A Hearth’s Warming Tail”. The new music this week includes Sayonara Maxwell, Oodorato2, and Black Electric.

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Black Electric – The Rescue (ft. Prince Whateverer) [Covering CxDr] | Alt. Rock

Yet another take on one of the most covered songs in this fandom (welp, I can’t really talk here). This time it’s an alternative rock version from Black Electric (who deserves some more subscribers if you ask me) with Prince Whateverer filling in to perform the vocals. Nice and upbeat, and catchy like the original, go take a listen!

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Elias Frost – Luna’s Future (Covering Daniel Ingram) | Metal

Elias Frost is an up-and-coming Swedish metal artist (who certainly looks the part too!) who’s been making MLP-themed music for almost a year, but picked up the pace with pony music in the past few months. This cover starts off with just a classical guitar, some lead guitar and vocals from Elias himself. The drums and other guitars join in halfway through, and even add new composition elements that weren’t in the original. In short, it’s pretty damn epic, go check it out!