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  • Impressive work Makkon. All I have to say is, I am at a loss for words. Keep up the good work! On a side note, this song just brought back about ten of the better parts of my early and latter childhood in a huge collaboration. Avatar, Balto, Brother Bear, Spirit, the Lion King, the Last Airbender, and of course, FiM. I needed that. Thank you.

  • I wanna beat Alduin while playing this song. It would be epic!

  • when i first saw this i was like what the fuck is this beautiful bedazzeling diamond doing surrounded by this shit?

  • Ponies brought me here- oh, wait.

  • I micspammed this at one pony server in tf2... thet... was... E-P-I-C

  • @makkon06 Why did you start composing music? How did you start? Can you recommend any (cheap) synthesizers? Thanks! Love your work!

  • @TheObjectionShouter I remember when I was younger, I told my dad I wanted to stop music and just do art. He gave me a look I'll never forget and said sternly to me: "you'd better do both. You'll regret it profoundly some day if you don't." Old man was right, I'm glad I kept at it because I love making music. I started from practicing piano a lot, and got some nice software to do it digitally. I can't recommend any cheap software because I don't know of any that aren't expensive. Check your PM

  • @makkon06 Cool, thanks for sharing your story with me. And thanks for the quick response!

  • @makkon06 Your music is possibly the best series of orchestral pieces I've ever heard; Howard Shore is quaking in his boots, sir.

  • Best listened to extremely loudly

  • It's...BEAUTIFUL....<3

  • maybe mor epercusions could add more power im a composer too =) but i cant masterize as wel as u XD

  • Best battle heme I've ever heard!

  • @TheMegaOne1000 its even better when you Listen to this while reading the Fic "Ponies make War" it REALLY Makes the Battle Scenes POP!

  • @digitalrailroader I've got a 4-hour-long playlist with music like this just for playing/reading/doing homework hehe

  • I listened to this all freakin day... And I can't stop.

    HELP ME!

  • Did you create this music or is it owned by a studio?

    Just curious because I really enjoy it and I can think of a few videos where I could use this exact music to amplify what I am trying to convey.

  • @MrBackyardEngineer I created the music in Cubase and Kontakt, featuring LA Scoring Strings

  • Hence, I took a Makkon to the knee.

  • The two most epic of time signatures: 6/8 and 7/8. EPIC, I tellz ye! EPIC!

  • @vippernarf You might be surprised, but this was done in 4/4 time with triplets.

  • @makkon06 Oh... Well, then, my point still stands! This piece is still epic! BTW, have you heard Two Steps From Hell's "United We Stand - Divided We Fall"? How about Murray Gold's "I Am The Doctor"? Or Jack Wall's "Suicide Mission"? They're all in 7/8 time, and they all make washing the dishes feel epic. Point standing, I'll be a jittery with joy if you ever decide try to do 7/8.

    Oh, and onto the piece: What key?

  • @vippernarf I certainly have heard all of those songs, they're beautiful!

    This piece is in Cminor, actually. It's super basic.

  • @vippernarf Wait. 7/8 time is a thing?

  • @TheMusicalPsycho Check out "United We Stand - Divided We Fall" by Two Steps From Hell, and "Suicide Mission" by Jack Wall from the Mass Effect 2 OST.

  • This is BLOODY EPIC!!!

    8D

  • Please... whatever you do.... DO NOT STOP MAKING THIS INCREDIBLE MUSIC!!!

  • I LOVE IT!

  • I love you, Makkon.

  • @Whitbane me too!!!

  • Please do more with your talent. Like, get out there and cut a professional album. You are amazingly talented, and this song is just beautiful, pony related or not. (Though it's nice to think that all this talent came from the ponyworld. ^_^)

  • @imicusdown While ponies have been a big chunk of my inspiration, I completely agree with you. Myself and a number of other musicians in the community are branching out more in a professional and marketable direction.

  • @makkon06

    Thank you. I'd pay hundreds just for a single DVD on your music.

    If you'd like, I could help spread the word of your music.

  • @imicusdown I'd love that! I'm anticipating a bandcamp album release in the near future, I'll post a video and bulletin about it when it's up. Thank you so much!

  • @makkon06

    No problem! A person with such great talent deserves some fame.

  • @makkon06 lol, So long as you still make a little music for teh bronies on the side once in a while :3

  • @makkon06 Agreed and fullheartedly supported. Don't forget where you came from, though.

    If you get famous, you should still smuggle a pony-related song sometimes on your albums, for us Bronies =D

  • @imicusdown NOTHING will die in the internet.

  • @imicusdown Forgotten? I don't think so. Not with the fanbase this show has. People still remember older cartoons.

  • The time is nigh! Rise, soldiers of the glorious sun! Rise and remember what we are fighting for!

    Our Empire! Our country folk! Our Queen Celestia!

    The time is nigh, rise and ready!

    We run to ruin! We run to disaster! We will be honored with opened arms on the other side of the vale!

    CHARGE!

  • Back at last! How I missed you, you sweet sweet music you.

  • Lovely. Do you license this stuff out?

  • @Ephisus I don't, I just make it for fun and as a hobby. I wouldn't be able to license any of these songs since I don't have full licenses to any of the software.

  • @makkon06 How about for non-commercial collaborative projects? I think that would be kosher.

  • @Ephisus Hmm, I'll have to keep that in mind. Not a bad idea.

  • @makkon06 You could always set this vid or song or whatever you want to call it to a Creative Commons License.

  • OK there's really good music, and there's music that goes beyond and touches you on an emotional level...DAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME FEEL FEELINGS!!!

  • I roll a 20 on mah stealth check.

  • Makkon, if your fans are listening to this piece and drawing inspiration from it to the point of spilling out phrases that match what they are hearing (in this case, a good thing), then I would think that you've succeeded in your task. If it makes me want to yell out "FOR EQUESTRIAAAA!" and then charge at something... or cry a single manly tear and smile, then so be it, who are you to judge your fans?

    As for improvement? You clearly have a theme that works here, keep doing stuff in this style.

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  • And than the great soilders came out of the village and they looked at the ogre's eyes and the ogre's looked at the soldiers eyes and they Watched each other and... They fought with each other... And in the end just one Soldier and one Ogre were on their feet and they fought... Till the end.... and ah whatever I will just enjoy the music without imagine anything :D

  • @makkon06 You are seriously one freakin talented piece of awesome sauce!! LOVE IT!!

  • For the new lunar republic!

  • This actually isn't that good compared to the other sample of it on the original Celestia Origins theme...

  • On my writing playlist, this is now one of the songs I use for writing melodramatic epic climax-of-story vanquishing the dark forces war scenes. THANK you, sir. (Or madam.)

  • In the beginning, there was only Nothing.

    Nothing began to Fear that it would be lonely forever, and thus created the first Sin and the first third of the world.

    Nothing, not knowing this, began to Desire companions, inadvertently creating the second Sin and the second third of the world.

    Nothing, finally realizing its folly, began to Regret its mistakes and created the final Sin and the last half of the world.

    For its Sins, the Nothing was banished as the new world took shape.

  • @DiehardMechWarrior

    "Ponies have debated whether or not the Everfree Forest is indeed haunted. Some say that it's just an anomaly, a 'glitch' in the system. Other say that something sinister lurks in it's heart...

    "As for what I believe, well, I'd rather not get into that..."

    --High Brow, Canterlot scholar.

  • Found this in Everfree Radio's Top 100 of 2011. Congrats, man, great stuff.

  • This is not just epic, this is BEYOND epic.

  • Solar Empire or New Lunar Republic, why does the world make me choose!? So epic makkon! :D

  • I want to know what movie your working on and where can i preorder my fucking tickets

  • i want to dislike this, i really do, after al, it is celestia, but i just can't, the melody, the beat, the proper use of violins, the whole SONG is just glorious, so I'm not gonna like it, but I'm also not gonna dislike, but i will sub,

    p.s. LONG LIVE THE NEW LUNAR REPUBLIC

  • @macalaca2000 Get off your soapbox and click that goddamn button. If it's MLP:FiM you better damn well praise it like it's the sweat of Jesus Christ himself.

  • @theguywhoannoysme sucks to be you, I don't believe in any religion except equestrian, and frankly, I'm a majorly big luna fan

  • @macalaca2000 An all powerful God masterminding the universe is a convenient scapegoat for everything we can't explain until we do explain them. I don't actually believe in Christianity.

    There is no conflict between Princess Luna and Princess Celestia to speak of anyway. The Nightmare is the only thing causing mayhem right now and for whatever reason I see hundreds if not THOUSANDS of you following it around like faithful mongrels!

    I'm obliged to serve her as a Diamond Dog, however.

  • From this point on, all roleplaying posts will be deleted. Storytelling posts are fine. If you wish to roleplay, please do so somewhere else.

  • @makkon06 Pardon. Is that why I am unable to see the statement that TheWarriorPony was tring to say to me?

  • @MobianShoopIndustry Probably. I'm really sorry man, I don't have a personal vendetta against role players or anything, and I think it's fine that people do it. It just sort of rubs me the wrong way that they do it here. I put a lot of work and energy into my music and the irrelevant comments clutter around legitimate and helpful feedback. I know it's youtube, but still...

    If you have email notifications of youtube comments, you might still be able to see his comment.

  • @makkon06 I did not think of what I did as "roleplay", but understand that is to be percieved as such. I did not wish to offend you.

  • @MobianShoopIndustry No worries, and sorry if I misinterpreted it as such. My feelings on the issue is the result of many such comments that are far worse offenders that I've received over the last few months.

  • @makkon06 Point taken. I suppose one problem I may have at times is expressing feelings about certain things and at times I tend to warp the basic form of the expression into something that makes the point completely clear but does many others things some of which do not belong here.

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  • that´s not only musik this is a peace of art

    PS. I shivered the whole time because this is sooooo epic

  • I have listened to many a song in my time. I prefer instrumentals to any other music, especially orchestral instrumentals, which is why I like artists such as yourself or AJ the Engineer (at least in the brony world). Aside from that, I have picked three songs from all of the music I have listened to that I label as my absolute, better than anything else, all time favorites. Well, with this song, now I have four songs that have that title. Thank you. I absolutely love this song.

  • HOW COME THE PICTURE RESETS EVERY FEW SECONDS AND REFOCUSES!

    0 stars unfavourited unsubscribed dislike flagged for terrorism

  • :O

  • Stare in astonishment all you want, it won't make your digital composition any less flagged. Terrorist scum.

  • @kioko9959 lolwut

  • @makkon06

    On a more serious note, thank god googling "Celestia" still shows the more practical space simulator than stupid ponyshit.

    And to those in the comments section, LONG LIVE ASPERGERS!

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  • @kioko9959 raggle fraggle

  • @kioko9959 It's the magic of friendship!

  • GAH THIS SONG MAKES ME WANT TO GET UP AND hug something~<3

  • Listened to this on repeat while making bratwurst. Fuck yeah.

  • This is plain awesome.

  • it seems that nearly every brony or Pegasis also is a deviant

  • @biglol4ever This is either the most un-informed comment I have ever seen or the most obvious. If you define "deviant" as a sexually confused, malformed, outcast from society, you couldn't be more wrong. You are horribly predjudiced and your "comment" is not appreciated. If you define "deviant" as someone who does something outside of the social norm, well DUH! We aren't normal. That is why we are such a Great and Powerful community. The Brony/Pegasister comunity is a social powerhouse.

  • @TheSchemer7 i define deviant as someone who is a member of deviantart ^^

  • @TheSchemer7 Walls of text.

    Haven't made one of those since a horribly extensive splicing of Old Spice and arrows that pierce to the popliteal.

    At any rate, to comment about the music: Well done. Maybe it's because the clock says 2:33AM and I just blew a few good hours in game, but it reminds me of Skyrim crossed with a movie trailer.

  • Never thought about telling anyone about this till now...

    I Want to make my Cryengine 2 pony mod now, but I don't know the first thing about modeling, game mechanics, etc.

    Nice to dream about, though.

  • Where did the image come from? It looks a lot like the guidestone from Homeworld.

  • @Jonruy Check the description

  • I think I just got converted to the Solar Empire ._.

    

  • @OneWhoHatesToSleep no, I WILL NOT LOSE ANOTHER GOOD SOLDIER TO THAT TYRANT! REMBER WHO YOU ARE! REMBER WHY YOU FIGHT, WHO YOU FIGHT FOR! REMBER WHAT YOUR TRUW QUEEN HAS DONE FOR YOU! REMBER WHY YOU SWORE TO FIGHT WITH THE NEW LUNAR REPUBLIC! REMBER!

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  • That feel when fighting final boss of the internets.

  • "TBH?" I don't think I've heard that term yet...nope I cant even guess XD. I've always called this music making stuff "music production," or at least I pasted the name on a research essay :/

  • @IXITHELEGEND2 TBH = To be honest

  • Oh, and thanks for demonstrating that chorus instrument again! Love that thing :)

  • MY HEART WAS ABOUT TO EXPLODE! Once again, you have produced a piece that not only sends shivers down my spine, but makes me almost unfit for public mingling as I can hardly keep myself from tensing up and jumping around like a 2 year old at Christmas. THANK YOU for 3 reasons: 1.) spurring my imagination again! 2.) EARLY CHRISTMAS! 3.) making me jealous, again :D TELL me this is more than a hobby for you!

  • @IXITHELEGEND2 Wow, thank you! TBH, this is probably more of a hobby for me than anything. I doubt I could get an anchor on the industry without having much musical literacy, and it doesn't help that to learn it I'd have to juggle it with animation and illustration training to boot. I'm sure I'm capable of doing both, just not at the same time.

    So hobby it is for now, at least as a hobby I still get to do it for fun.

  • @makkon06 but this IS commercial quality, iam sure that if you freelanced on your free time you could make a couple bucks off indies and such.

    Sounds pretty damn amazing!

  • @makkon06 I keep wanting to reply to this, but I'm never sure what to say. After having thought about it...yes, it is a hobby, but you do have a real talent. Your music absolutely deserves to be heard. I believe you could earn some serious money for yourself. You've proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that you completely understand the theory behind the music--listening to your songs is testament enough. Learning to translate them to notes on paper is probably easier than you think. :)

  • This is so epic! I cant get over how great the music of this fandom sounds, I really hope you get to do something big with your music one day. On a side note, how come I cant edit anything about the mp3 tags in iTunes? I cant even add album art

  • Wow you even got Two Steps from Hell to make fan songs? Oh wait...

  • After listening to "Impressions of Celestia Origins" so many times, I knew exactly what this song was building up to. Even so, I wasn't prepared for the sheer grandness as it got there, more slowly than the original but sounding so much fuller.

    I've got the stupidest grin on my face right now from this song. One thumbs up is not enough.

  • @MrImdgreatest I was thinking the exact same thing, then I tabbed over and saw it on the top comments. Then I realized I know you IRL. Hi Jack.

    I also know the guy posting below me. Small world?

  • @GarlicPudding that's a pretty weird lookin' sun.........

    He's done a New Lunar Republic remix too, so it's hard to tell which side -if any- he's on

  • @ER160990C No, he did it all by himself (with a little inspiration from JeffTheStrider).

    Yeah.......he's just good like that

  • For some reason this song inspires me to go watch Game of Thrones...

  • For the holy light of the sun!

    Hail to the Solar Empire!

  • was this recorded with a live orchestra? because it sounds like something worthy of Lord of the Rings or Halo. great stuff!

  • Although the golden spires of Canterlot are far from here, Celestia's hoof is on your shoulders today. You have fought and displayed bravery and loyalty far and above your calling. You have faced the full brunt of a dragon horde, as well as stared down the horrors of Discord himself, and in that I am honored to have led you.

    Our task remains however. The Elements of Harmony are not yet repaired, and we must defend the holders until they are ready.

    MARES OF PONYVILLE! DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER?

  • Did the place you got the font from label it Tengwar? Because it's really darn close to it!

    On a more relevant note, this is AMAZING. Faved and saved! :D

  • look man, i know you're great.

    and i know it's probably a coincidence.

    and I know this comment will never see the light of day.

    but this does sound eerily similar to the bg music from a few games i've played, namely epic war 2 and Stick War.

    I said it, now im prepared for all of the downvotes im gonna get.

  • @MrImdgreatest Haven't heard of those, but they must have a crazy-awesome soundtrack. I'll look them up!

  • @MrImdgreatest Well, he's probably been heavily inspired by all kinds of movie soundtracks like this, and it's no surprise that his work may sound a tad like some other artists. I think with this kind of genre, while incredibly awesome, will HAVE to start sounding like itself if enough of it is made. There's only so much "total originality" with a genre like this, imo.

    Doesn't make this any less awesome. :)

  • @MrImdgreatest I think it's fairly possible that you're right. There's always a chance of it becoming reminiscent of something else, no matter how hard you might try to avoid it. Most of them are created following the same basic (theoretical) rules, after all.

  • @MrImdgreatest not...

  • Thumbs up if you get the skyrim reference

  • Walk around to this, you feel epic

  • The original Celestia Origins remix is one of my favorite songs ever (and therefore I prefer it), but this one is REALLY good too. Downloading right now! ^_^

  • This would make perfect background music for skyrim!

  • Sounds a lot like danman87's stuff from Newgrounds

  • Keepin' it sexy, as always. Awesome job, brotha!

  • Not much more to say than by the time :30 seconds rolled around, the song was favorited and I sat back in my chair and just ABSORBED this beautiful sound, casting such a beautiful spell over me.

    This is definitely going right after "Impressions of Celestial Origins" in my playlist of the best brony songs ever. This is amazing. I've run out of adjectives to use...

  • Playing skyrim to this. epic.

  • Y U SO EPIC

    (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

  • as soon as i put this song with Skyrim i just sat there crying with joy

  • Another Marvelous Offering, Makkon! I salute, Bow, and HEIL! TO YOUR AWESOMENESS!

  • Makkon, you hate DRESS.MOV...

    Then you make this awesome piece of art.

    You're truly an artist, so epic that you erased the creepy garbage from my mind and remembered me why the ponydom is doomed. THANK YOU! Subscribing right now.

  • What....how do I even....there...this is.....I can't......it's so.....this....THIS....it's, so, beautiful /cry. Seriously, though, this is amazing. I have to go find some battle soundtrack to add this to.

  • Beast. 

  • Ugh. I look forward to your work so much. This is so amazing. saksadhkkajsdfdsgh

  • Listened to this while PvP'ing on Rift.  Killed everything that moved.

  • Yay

  • Bravo, Makkon, bravissimo! You took what was already one of my all-time favorite songs from the Bronydom and dialed it up to eleven! My hat, if I had one, would be off to you.

    In all seriousness, though, I love what you've done with the piece. The way you've altered the rhythm now makes it reminiscent of movies like Pirates of the Caribbean or Lord of the Rings.

    I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for pieces in 6/8 time.

  • You already got me makkon, I'll check out anything you do, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with ponies.

    This is pretty badass.

  • 1 person is gonna be sent to the moon.

  • Your song is awesome! I'm honored in sharing the same EQD post with great talent such as you. :)

  • I'll play this when Mass Effect 3 comes out.

    -----

    "-What's the plan Commander?"

    "-We fight or we die. Thats the plan."

  • Wow, this is absolutely amazing, everyday, amazing music is being pumped out by the brony community, but yours shines above a lot of them. It really does sound something that would play while you're playing Skyrim. Just all hats off to you

  • Okay Makkon, in all seriousness though, I'm gonna have to ask you to take it down a notch. You're making the rest of the fandoms music look bad. Hurry up and become famous so you can leave already.

    (HELP ME THE OTHER MUSICIANS HAVE ME AT GUNPOINT)

  • 'If we die, we die with honour.'

  • Makkon? someday i want to be like you: DOWNRIGHT AWESOME

  • Is this where we falter?

    Is this where we fail?

    Is this where we shed our blood in vain?

    NO! NO, IT IS NOT!

    We shed our blood on this battlefield for the GLORY OF OUR PRINCESS!

    THE LIGHT ABOVE US SHALL CONTINUE!

    Here, at this threshold of destruction, we HOLD OUR GROUND!

    PONIES! BRONIES! PEGASISTERS AND ALL LOYAL TO THE PRINCESS!

    Hear this song and know: WE SHALL BE TRIUMPHANT!!!!

  • @TheSchemer7 Dude... that brought a few tears to my eyes- that, in conjunction with the awesomeness playing at the moment.

  • @TastyBusiness Thanks! Inspiration gets the better of me on occasion.

  • @TheSchemer7 me: agreed >:)

  • THAT'S.

    DAMN.

    EPIC.

  • Best fanbase ever. Seriously.

  • Okay, so it costs just over 2K to get all of the software you use, right? Somebody's dedicated........

    Well, i'm getting just a fraction of that soon, but it probably won't be even anywhere CLOSE to ehat you have done. Good job, sir!!

    Now if only I had enough money......i could produce music.......

  • By the time I had a chance to hear two seconds of this it was already on my player... how did that happen?

    By the way, YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME

  • @supertucan20 weird.....i'm looking up the same thing

  • Well, this was good enough for EqD, so I salute you fine gentlecolt.

  • Oh god I LOVE how it bridges into your original Celestia Origins. God the violins and the horns....SO MANY GOOSEBUMPS. This is like the most epic thing I've ever heard. Please don't ever stop making music good sir.

  • "Battle mix" and Makkon in the same video? Mother of god..

  • Yes! Its good to listen to new music from you. Epic music. Great work. Sounds amazing.

  • pretty goddamn awesome

  • Horry sheet, this is awesome.

  • Oh god, that's really great :D