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  • Today is Jan26, 2012 . . . 12:30pm. Mars is the brightest red i've ever seen. Is war upon us? Check with the oracles!

  • every time i hear this song, i envision a giant battle between Nod and GDI. some Kane's Wrath shit

  • Still better love story, than Twilight.

  • The beginning sounds quite a bit like the main theme of the first season of the War of the Worlds TV series. It was either an intentional homage or one hell of a coincidence.

  • @multitudeofidols This is a famous "classical" piece, and I would't be surprised to find out it influenced music for a TV series. The music, however, is not an homage to any TV theme, as it was written between 1914 and 1916, by Gustav Holst.

  • @multitudeofidols If you meant the TV music was an homage to this work, then disregard my earlier comment, and you may very well be correct.

  • @classicnorthwest Yes, I meant the TV theme was an homage. And the more I think about it, the more I think it was intentional. Not only because of the obvious Mars/War of the Worlds connection, but also because the theme from the series long sounded fitting for a show that was (in its first season) about warfare. If they adapted elements from the Holst piece to utilise as a militaristic motif in the series, then it seems all the more appropriate.

  • a little interesting fact, i was watching an interview with geezer butler of black sabbath and he said that guitarist tommy iommi came up with the main riff of their self titled song while listening to geezer play holst's mars bringer of war on his bass. the part he was referring to is at 4:21

  • R.I.P. 24

  • @Freakazzoid49002 Sorry man, meant to thumbs up, but hit down by mistake

  • I don't see why everyone is saying Star Wars... sounds like a Super Mario 3 airship battle to me... at least for about the first 50 seconds

  • *cough*Opening scene of Star Wars.*cough*Star Destroyer.*coughcough*Part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor.*coughcough*

  • 2:10, rock right in the middle, someone tell me i'm not seeing that it looks like a skull?

  • Star Wars??  kidding... lol

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  • so brutal.is there any piece similar to this one ?

  • Finally, a youtube version of this song without abysmal sound quality! THANK YOU!

  • best version i've heard of this suit is the Jahni Marjani's version but this is awesome too!!!

  • OOOOORAHHHHH

    goose bumps on 4:15

  • It's great that I'm studying this for my Music GCSE

  • Lol this song is on my Ape Escape game!

  • I went to see a small orchestra last night and they did this. I had to stop myself from grinning. Amazing.

  • Intergalactic war, here we come!

  • Seventeen people must be on Uranus

  • Great video, excellent pictures and sound quality! Congrats!

  • Which was composed first? Shostakovich cello concerto or The Planets?

  • Creo que un hombre no llegaria al minuto de superivencia sin proteccion...

  • This song is what plays when SHIT. IS. GOING. DOWN.

  • @hotelmario510 lol you deserve way more thumbs up

  • @quakeru Yeah, I do.

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  • everytime i listen to this, i want to go to war.

  • Purely EPIC. 

  • Found this when I watched that documentary of the Tsar Bomba, this was the theme song being played. Fit damn well, I must say, with that monstrosity of a bomb.

  • Man, this song basically screams 'Martian Conquest' at you.

  • 4:20

  • amazing! which program did you use to make this video?

  • @MrAndersohn -FinalCutPro, i banged it out one sunday morning . . . i watch it now and wish i'd spent more time on it; today i'd use more Motion3 effects, or use it as a learning project for AfterEffects. You see the evidence of flowing water this week in the news? Big Mars Head, huh? (mgaheritage - logged in alternate id)

  • @StThomasAquinasJV09 But still it's nice video. I used for my videos damned Movie Maker (it's so primitive).

    Are there new evidences of flowing water (I read about it 6 months ago)? Can I find this news in Internet?

  • @MrAndersohn Dunno, last week i saw pictures of a crater (before,after&after) showing no flow, then a cascade down the crater's side and spreading out (white) like an avalanche; then evaporated and left no sign; may be due to internal heat/volcanic activity; Aside . . . i like the ideas of Mars once being full of primitive life and enduring impact and spreading life to Earth-after all, life took billions of years to even begin to develop here.

  • duh duh duh duh, duh, duh duh duh...

  • @SCCmovies baaaaaaaaam.....baaaa-baaaaaaa­m....

  • @kevlonk QUIT HONKING I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!

  • just saw this in ventures bros. Brilliant epic piece of music. Especially 4:15.

  • 4:15 brutal

  • I first heard it in the trailer for the movie GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES. I thought it was in the movie. They also played it in a commercial for Tarzan action figures. I always get a rush whenever I hear it, especially towards the end.

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  • it's...it's...IT's...IT'S...

    MARS!!!

  • Simply awesome!

  • makes me want to watch gladiator

  • listen to this and revelation chapter 6-20 in the Bible

  • Here;s some trivia for you: it's said that the World 8 overworld ("Dark Land") theme from Super Mario Bros 3 is based off of this piece.

  • I like the video! Lots of interetsing images. It's great for visualizing your own interpretation of the song.

  • OMG i love this piece i think it is amazing, all quiet in the begging then it Builds up to the big ending its truly EPIC!!!!!

  • Weird this is about Mars, as it would be the perfect soundtrack to War of The Worlds. You know, aside from Jeff Wayne.

  • This reminds me of the game Outpost...

  • MAIDEN! 

  • The horn/trumpet answer and call never fails to give me shivers.

  • Hey. where can i get this song? We are playing it in band and i cant find it!

  • WONDROUS JOB, mgaheritage! ... THANK YOU... I am sharing this with a handful of friends who have never known G.Holst and "The Planets" ... on this MemorialDay!!... of remembrance of the agonies of WAR. Lovely and Loving musical work! ... THANKyou!... =jonycuddlesgert.

  • I wasn't able to listen to this as a kid as it freaked me out - it still freaks me out.

  • Brilliant peice of music.

  • e p i c

  • this recording is definitely one of the best on youtube.

  • This sounds like London Symphony if I'm not mistaken.

  • @riseofatheism - you are mistaken, actually . . . it's the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Charles Dutoit conduncting

  • @mgaheritage

    Ah. Still an excellent album!

  • @riseofatheism -Too true, my friend, totally Awesome in my book . . . all the way through. A beautiful depiction of human emotions, experiences and classical mythology to music. Holst was in a groove when he composed this symphony.

  • @mgaheritage

    Have you heard London's recording?

  • @mgaheritage As I thought!

  • @mgaheritage He was mistaken but also very much correct.

  • @riseofatheism especially at 1:00, but it's from montreal

  • I played this song in band. Isnt it actually based off the Greek god Mars not the planet? Mars being Ares....?

  • @MissGryffindor07 - probably it is. Even the title gives some hint. "Bringer of War" - well, Mars was Roman god of war. While Ares - almost no difference, but he was Greek god.

  • hmm

    reminds me of supcom 2 =.=

  • this was also used as theme music on a lon ago brit tv series called "QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT" as a kid I used to watch this weekly and Mars has always stayed with me.Still one of my favourite pieces of music.

  • The music is Mars, the Bringer of War. It's the first movement of The Planets, composed by Gustav Holst from 1914-1916. This recording is performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Dutoit (I have this CD, among a few other recordings of The Planets, and this is my favorite).

  • The song is called Mars, Bringer of War.

    Neo classical composer Gustav Holst

  • For some reason the intro reminds me a little of the music in the show ReBoot :S

  • great video man!!! great recording too!!!! who is it though???

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  • This song was used in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Specifically the part at time index 4:17, during the battle between Kirk and General Kang.

  • five pound box of danger!

  • @jamcalx

    what are you talking about?

  • @jamcalx ????

  • They had this in the opening cutscene for Outpost. That game was epic.

  • i heard this on The Venture Brothers LOL

    21 and 24 are soo funny

  • I'd say Mar wants us away...stop throwing crap at us.

  • First heard this in EV Nova

  • this song is beyond awesome! it doesn't truly start until 4:16 XD

  • this was also featured on a documentary about the nazi's, very befitting

  • Muahahahahaaha! Muahahaahaha!

    Fit for this kind of dialogue.

  • great piece of music but what is with the cardboard cut out Mars and the asteroids moving not very smoothly across the screen

  • Just so you know, Those were Mars' two moons, Phobos & Deimos. =)

  • Am I evil?

  • great tune

  • hahaha, the ending totally reminds me of one of the star wars themes...if i only knew which one exactly. i m pretty sure its from the empire strikes back though.

  • @asako23 NOOOOOOOOO lmao It shoudln't!!!! Starwars should remind you of this!:P This song was totally snipped by the music conductor/song writer of star wars. He stole all of his music from previous master pieces like these.

  • young as i was, i saw star wars before i heard this song.

    little kids arent typically listening to classical music either, and its actually due to me liking star wars so much that i got into it anyway.

  • John Williams based a lot of his stuff on Holst's compositions. It's actually fun to listen and see as Williams starts to grow as a composer and come up with original ideas

  • I forget who said "Bad musicians are influenced; good musicians steal"

  • In Star Wars, where the Millenium Falcon is brought into the Death Star.

  • Only one word: GREAT

  • Reminds me of Venture Bros, when 24 is putting on his uniform.

  • thats cause this was the song they did.

  • lul i know, thats y i said it.....

  • hahahaha dude...that is the funnies episode ever just because of that

  • I watched it recently and it was #21, but yea that scene made that episode.

  • @TetheredLimbs its the same song

  • DUMDUMDUMDUDJMDUMDUMDUM

  • I just beat Ape Escape 3 and this song plays during the final stage. Pretty cool!

  • Did you hear about the restaurant on Mars?

    Great food, but NO atmosphere!

  • Mars has an atmosphere, space agencies have used aerobraking there many times. I even heard NASA were working on a UAV that would map Mars.

  • Even if there was an atmosphere, we would still suffocate.

  • All the hard radiation would be a problem too....

  • @jax1moi8 ...wow. I hate you.

    @euch27 Cello Concerto, by about 10 years. (1906, I think, vs. 1916)

  • @miche1df Why do you hate him? Harmless joke. No problem there, surely.

  • @hotelmario510 I was being facetious. It was just an awful pun. Like, double facepalm awful.

  • @miche1df Oh, right. Yeah, it was.

  • I actually thought it was good...

  • @BossHossGT500 It was good because it was bad.

  • John Williams and Hans Zimmer have both used this for inspiration for Star Wars and the Gladiator soundtrack(was also used later in King Arthur). It was also used in an old Earthworm Jim game but I dont remember which one. One of the classic epic songs though.

  • Wrong. Mars has a thinner atmosphere than earth. Almost all celestial bodies have some sort of 'atmosphere' they just vary tremendously in density and composition. Recent discoveries have detected Methane . . . many like Brian use this to speculate that it could have been produced organically (ie. via life, microbial); however, it's likely from geological sources like venting volcanos. Keep looking at the clouds, Brian . . . there's lots to see there!

  • Yeah you are, because you're an idiot.

  • wow Brian, what were you smoking?? Sounds fantastic, but it's utterly devoid of any connection to reality or plausibility. Sure it would blow a lot of people's minds, but it also be utterly false!

  • yea a good deal of people found this upload through Venture Brothers.. hehe-

    24!!

  • truth

  • R.I.P The Nissan Stanza

  • How dare you ask someone to think. War isn't about thinking, it's about wi...OMG I almost got hit by phobos!

  • This makes me think of Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of Russia. Think about it

  • holst, the inventor of space battle music lol :D

  • Every time I hear that part at about 4:15, I always think of the Venture Brothers "21 and 24" scene, when 21 is getting dressed. EPIC!!

  • haha me too RIP 24 :(

  • agreed!

  • MOM! CALL THE DOG!

  • 4:25-intense!!!!!!

  • 4:15

    So this is where Symphony X got the epic intro to the Divine Wings of Tragedy.

    The original is always better though :p

  • 4:15 OH. MY. GOD.

  • did u notice at 4:15 the ground looks like it has roads in it

  • Go listen to Jupiter from the same suite.

    That was used in there, too. XD

  • i gotta say, the best performance of the planets i have ever heard was done by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra... not many ppl have heard of them, but if you can find their recording, it would be very much worth your time to listen to it. no other recording of anything has ever given me the chills the way this recording gave me the chills, its amazing!!!

    i have to say too that this recording was pretty good too!!

  • Mars, one of my favorite out of the Planets for sure.

  • 21 and 24 Gear Up used this track.

  • The transition at 3:08 is uncanny.

  • ka-ching!!

  • Fut-wua!

  • amazing.

  • now i know where star wars got its soundtrack, from this badass musical piece

  • this is THE song to start a nuclear war with.

  • lol

  • it is even better for colonizing the Mars, dont u think)

  • yeah basically anything that entails some sort of violent slaughter

  • This is THE benchmark recording of 'The Planets' Suite.

    Charles Dutoit with Orchestre Symphonique d'Montreal absolutely nail this movement!

  • It's ok. I prefer Andrew Davis conducting The Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Now that is a wonderful interpretation of Holst.

  • i agree

    from what i've listened to the low brass parts in most groups just doesn't have enough...angst..anger and hatred for the piece. But they do in this and i LOVE It

  • epic music

  • Agreed.

  • jimmy page played this live in dazed and confused hahaha. am i evil?

  • what ?

  • jimmy page played this in dazed and confused. you can hear it in the movie the song remains the same. and the band diamond head stole the begging and used it as the main riff in there song am i evil.

  • I never noticed that in am i evil I need to see song remains the same. I can't believe I haven't I'm pretty heavy with Zeppelin I had there first performance and them as the new yardbirds but I lost it I still have it on cd but I still haven't seen it I don't know there later concerts seemed out of touch kinda IMO but jimmy page's lucifer rising soundtrack was bad ass if you can get a hold of it( I got it at a site called cinemageddon) you gotta keep a ratio though its a site for bmovies so....

  • My friggin balls. Hanz Zimmers Gladiator soundtrack stole the whole thing from Holst!

  • I watched the London Philharmonic Orchestra perform this, OMG... I LOVE IT!

  • the the 8 note rhythm that the brass and tymp play is so fucking epic. i love it so much it gives me chills!

  • I remember when Iron Maiden played this one just right before they go on the show, and it's fucking epic. It raises the dramatic level to 200%

  • The whole piece is awesome, but at about 4:16 is turns EPIC.

  • u can say that again. and again. and again. lol

  • For MARSPARTA! *Kicks martian into endless pit*

  • whos playing the song?

  • This song makes me wanna go out at night and burn all churches in the neighborhood hahaha ];-p

  • You have a beautiful soul my brother.

  • Why thank you, brother!

  • listen to this song on repeat while playing risk. I promise it will bring out world dominating ego in you.

  • gustav holst was before hans zimmer. williams and zimmer copied from holst...