Nobody could convince me that a man saying this is not gay. There’s just no way.
Well, we still have Two Steps from Hell to counter-act that.
If TSFH is not masculine enough, how about this?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-TdaH0JWtQ[/youtube]
Or this?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoaUYcwEpSw[/youtube]
A bit monotonous but can be salvaged.
Then we have TSFH again . . .
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_FZ_sC_OIU[/youtube]
For Hairball and the like:
“['T]his is not the danger of the noble man, that he might become one of the good, but a churl, a mocker, a destroyer.
'Alas, I knew noble men who lost their highest hope. Then they slandered all high hopes. Then they lived impudently in brief pleasures and barely cast their goals beyond the day. Spirit too is lust, so they said. Then the wings of their spirit broke: and now their spirit crawls about and soils what it gnaws. Once they thought of becoming heroes: now they are voluptuaries. The hero is for them an offense and a fright.
‘But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!’
Thus spoke Zarathustra.” (Kaufmann translation, “On the Tree on the Mountainside”.)
For Magnus:
“[P]recisely for the hero is beauty the hardest thing of all. Unattainable is beauty by all ardent wills.
A little more, a little less: precisely this is much here, it is the most here.
To stand with relaxed muscles and with unharnessed will: that is the hardest for all of you, ye sublime ones!
[Continued in my signature.]”
Magnus, I like your taste in music. It definitely has a heroic quality to it. Really like the Epica and Two Steps from Hell stuff. I don’t know if I listen to a lot of music that’s up to par with this heroic aesthetic, but I’ll think on it.
Okay, what about Enya’s May It Be or Jeremy Soule’s theme to Skyrim?
Skyrim theme is great.
Sounds a bit Russian.
Very very proud.
Can you imagine the choreography for it?
Can you imagine the moves men would do to it?
It’s exactly what I consider “epic” or “heroic” or “victorious” type of music.
There are some details I’d like to fix, but in general, yes that would be it.
Reminds me of this:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXFSK0ogeg4[/youtube]
A bit repetitive but that can be fixed.
The direction is right.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mae2HYubmKI[/youtube]
Commandos had an epic soundtrack in general but this one indubitably stands out as the best.
Hans Zimmer’s mastery:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_U4in8WeS0[/youtube]
Very soft at the beginning but at 2:25 it suddenly transforms itself into an epic melody that unfortunately does not last long enough.
Violin and piano version:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yncwmwPxhpw[/youtube]
Master, apprentice, hardcore, Steven Seagal, warrior, disabled, in me, the Wishmaster
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82paQbF0Yo[/youtube]