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THOMAS BERGERSEN & NICK PHOENIX (Two Steps from Hell)
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- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeMar 1st 2011
Christodoulides wrote
I wasn't commenting on their origin, but rather the purpose of their music (unless i am missing something, this is what they do) and its style.
I honestly can't see what's wrong in listening to a cue that has a definitive beginning, middle, and end. Granted, having most of those pieces be crafted with a epic crescendo in mind, can make for a tiring listening experience, but you can't say that they weren't created to generate some specific emotional response, like all music. -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeMar 1st 2011
You're right about that, nothing wrong. I am talking personally though and i do find them quite the same and tiring. Having heard one album, it's indeed fun but after that all sound the same to me.Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeMar 1st 2011
Christodoulides wrote
You're right about that, nothing wrong. I am talking personally though and i do find them quite the same and tiring. Having heard one album, it's indeed fun but after that all sound the same to me.
Yeah, I know what you're talking about. This is why they have to mix things up by adding different style pieces and genres, and the new album may have all of these changes. -
- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2011 edited
There's a new single from Thomas Bergersen on iTunes and Amazon, "<3" (or Heart). Thomas created this track in honor of the victims of the disasters in Japan, and he is donating 100% of the proceeds from it to aiding Japan.
Thomas Bergersen
Japan needs our help, our love, our support. With sounds of Bulgarian folk choir, Irish uilleann pipes, Armenian duduk and orchestra, "Heart" is my way of showing compassion, across religions and cultures. All the proceeds of the sales of this music will go to Red Cross, who is helping the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan/Asia-Pacific.
Also, all proceeds from his 4 pre-release Illusions singles for the next 4 months (and the singles already purchased this month) will go to aiding Japan.
-Heart on iTunes
-Heart on Amazon
The track is beautiful, as is the gesture. -
- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2011
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2011
The track doesn't work. Loads forever....
I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2011
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2011
Buy it?!? Pfft, don't be ridiculous!
Same problem with that one, though. SOMEONE doesn't want me to hear this piece.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2011
Weird! Preview it through the iTunes link? iTunes previews are 1:30 now. -
- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2011
Your periodic TSFH news update:
-The Human Experience soundtrack has been released, with about 14 minutes of score by Thomas Bergersen.
-The tracklist for Bergersen's solo album Illusions is up. The album has been recorded and mixed and should be released soon. We're just waiting on album art and the CD-pressing process:
01. Starvation
02. Dreammaker
03. Hurt
04. Ocean Princess
05. Gift of Life
06. Rada
07. A Place In Heaven
08. Merchant Prince
09. Promise
10. Femme Fatale
11. Homecoming
12. Immortal
13. Remember Me
14. Sonera
15. Reborn
16. Age of Gods
17. Illusions
18. Bonus Track
Total running time (01:07:54)
-Thomas released one track he decided to scrap from the Illusions album for Easter, My Freedom.
-Two more public releases are in the works. "Sun" will be Thomas Bergersen's own project and will have some of his music from Illumina and Dreams and Imaginations, as well as some new tracks. There will also be a sequel to Invincible with music from both Nick and Thomas. -
- CommentAuthorArtworks
- CommentTimeMay 19th 2011
Thomas Bergersen has released a 21+ minutes long demo/preview of his upcoming solo album. It sounds very cool... can't wait!
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- CommentAuthorArtworks
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2011
Thomas Bergersen's solo album "Illusions" is out now on iTunes. A CD release should be out shortly as well... -
- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2011
Artworks wrote
Thomas Bergersen has released a 21+ minutes long demo/preview of his upcoming solo album. It sounds very cool... can't wait!
Sounds cool indeed. Will be getting this.
Peter
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- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2011
Have finally rated all my TSFH tracks in itunes. There were 740 tracks to get though. Since several of their albums are unofficial concept albums like "All drums go to hell" that contained countless tracks performed by percussion only there were a great number of tracks I didn't care for. I ended up with 161 tracks rated between 3 and 5 stars, and playing this playlist on shuffle is just pure headbanging bliss.
Peter
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- CommentAuthorLars
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2011
thomas' solo album illusions is now available at itunes. -
- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2011
Wow, an epic project, congratulations!!
I have only listened to and rated Invincible, Nemesis and Dreams & Imaginations. And that was a lot.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeJun 26th 2011
Scribe wrote
Wow, an epic project, congratulations!!
I have only listened to and rated Invincible, Nemesis and Dreams & Imaginations. And that was a lot.
Hehe, indeed. They release albums all over the place and the albums contain an immense number of tracks. Difficult to keep up.
Peter
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- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
Lars wrote
thomas' solo album illusions is now available at itunes.
Any where else? CDBaby.com, maybe? I don't want to go through Apple again. -
- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
Yep, it's at CDBaby too. But I beleive the quality is slightly lower than the iTunes release?
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thomasbergersen
There you go!
Peter, you'll have to update your list with Illusions now too.
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- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
Feliz wrote
Yep, it's at CDBaby too. But I beleive the quality is slightly lower than the iTunes release?
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thomasbergersen
There you go!
Peter, you'll have to update your list with Illusions now too.
NOOOO!!!! YOU'VE FAILED ME!!!!
"We are currently undergoing site maintenance.
We will be back shortly.
Thanks,
The CD Baby Team" -
- CommentAuthorLars
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
they will also release the album on cd as soon as possible. -
- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
Feliz wrote
Peter, you'll have to update your list with Illusions now too.
Indeed, and "Faction" and "Sun" and "Balls to the wall" and "Two steps from heaven" and "Nero". *sigh* The work is never done! These people release more music than anyone else and just when you've finally rated it all they have released another bunch of albums you have to get and listen to and rate.
It's a never-ending job being a TSFH fan.
Peter
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- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
plindboe wrote
Feliz wrote
Peter, you'll have to update your list with Illusions now too.
Indeed, and "Faction" and "Sun" and "Balls to the wall" and "Two steps from heaven" and "Nero". *sigh* The work is never done! These people release more music than anyone else and just when you've finally rated it all they have released another bunch of albums you have to get and listen to and rate.
It's a never-ending job being a TSFH fan.
Peter
Really? They've released more albums? -
- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
lp, I'm using the list I found on wikipedia-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Steps_From_Hell
I'm not sure if any of the new ones have been released yet. I can imagine that the Two Steps From Heaven album listed as year 2012 are still in the planning stages, while Sun is an official album where no year is written. Illusions, Balls to the wall, Nero and Faction are all 2011 so they might come out soon, if they're not already out. It's difficult to tell with the unofficial albums whether they're out or not, since no places are selling them.
Peter
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- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJun 27th 2011
plindboe wrote
lp, I'm using the list I found on wikipedia-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Steps_From_Hell
I'm not sure if any of the new ones have been released yet. I can imagine that the Two Steps From Heaven album listed as year 2012 are still in the planning stages, while Sun is an official album where no year is written. Illusions, Balls to the wall, Nero and Faction are all 2011 so they might come out soon, if they're not already out. It's difficult to tell with the unofficial albums whether they're out or not, since no places are selling them.
Peter
Whew, for a minute, I thought I was behind on my collection there. -
- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeJun 28th 2011
plindboe wrote
Illusions, Balls to the wall, Nero and Faction are all 2011 so they might come out soon, if they're not already out. It's difficult to tell with the unofficial albums whether they're out or not, since no places are selling them.
Here's what's coming down the pipeline and what's already popped out of it.
-Illusions - Just released (Purchase through iTunes and CDBaby. Amazon soon to come. Physical CD release in a few months.)
-Balls to the Wall - Released, streaming (Drums | Extreme Music)
-Faction - Released, streaming (Drones | Extreme Music)
-Sun, unreleased (Commercial release - Compilation of Thomas' best tracks from Dreams and Imaginations)
-Untitled Invincible sequel, unreleased (Commercial release - Another general best-of compilation of publicly-unreleased tracks)
-Nero, unreleased (Private album - Nearing completion. Currently in recording sessions, then a month+ of mixing.)
-Two Steps from Heaven, unreleased (Private album - Currently in recording sessions.) -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeJun 28th 2011 edited
A shameless rip of Zimmer and E.S.Posthumus.* Not for me this one here
* Synths, orchestra, drums and Middle Eastern wordless female vocals bukkakeLove Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorlp
- CommentTimeJun 28th 2011 edited
Christodoulides wrote
A shameless rip of Zimmer and E.S.Posthumus. Not for me this one here
E.S. Posthumus kinda went down hill after Baraka, so I'm pretty happy that Thomas Bergesen can provide such an excellent substitute/replacement.
FWIW, most of these albums will always "rip off" Hans one way or another.
An all female bukkake? Hmmm, not sure how I should respond to this.... -
- CommentAuthorplindboe
- CommentTimeJun 28th 2011
Christodoulides wrote
A shameless rip of Zimmer and E.S.Posthumus.* Not for me this one here
Zimmer doesn't make music like this anymore and E.S.Posthumus doesn't exist anymore, so I'm glad that there're some to carry the mantle. In any case, they often make superior music anyway. Couldn't care less about originally. Whether I enjoy it is all that matters.
Peter
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- CommentAuthorFeliz
- CommentTimeJun 29th 2011 edited
...D? There are drums, synths, an orchestra and female vocalists, sure, but... a shameless rip? Of E.S. Posthumus? Did you listen to Promise, Sonera, Femme Fatale at all? Whatever they may remind me of, it's quite a bit more polished and inspired than anything I've heard from Posthumus, and it's not Zimmer either. Unfortunately I'm beginning to seriously doubt that Zimmer can put together anything any more that reaches the emotional heights of Reborn at 2:30.
It's not your type of music, I know, that's fine, but I really think there's a little more to it than your succinct summary.
