If you've ever been to a movie and watched the main character charge through battlefields, or save the world or even just their family, you've heard this music. It's everywhere and you just have yet to notice it. The genre is casually referred to as "epic music" or "movie music" but really, there is no true genre that can encompass the entire volume of these musical masterpieces. Each song or piece or whatever you choose to call it, is a combination of rock, classical, choral, electronic, and orchestral music. It is not all thrown together but is carefully crafted to create a piece of music that inspires and excites. Some songs are not for all but each person can find the music as a whole to be incredible. It's hard to explain. You listen to the music and you recognize it from somewhere but you don't know where. It's probably because you have heard it. It's the music behind every great movie scene or show and at the peak of every great song. It's the best of everything you've ever heard.
As people find it online and in whatever they listen to, they realize the greatness in it and share it. One of the most popular composers of this music is Two Steps From Hell. This band alone has had over 50 appearances in different shows, movies, events, and functions that I'm sure all of you have at least heard of let alone seen. It is truly everywhere and everything and as more people hear it, they recognize it and begin to appreciate it as music instead of accompaniment. It's amazing and... awesome. I encourage everyone to at least give it 10 min.
Try the albums: Sky World, Invincible, and Archangel
This is a really interesting blog, Jacob. I love it when there's the beginning burst of sound and then the harmony just moves on from there in those epic moments. You seem to know what you're talking about throughout the text, and present it very well, if I may say so myself.
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