So this blog has now been around for nearly two years, so it expected that things have changed for many of the artists II've featured since I wrote about them. With these post Iâll give updates on all the musicians I've previously featured.Â
1. AcousticBrony - in the couple years since I reviewed them, theyâve released a couple of songs, so take that as you will. Theyâve also announced a couple projects. such as a still upcoming 8-bit rock album with MysteriousBronie, and now have a bandcamp. AcoustiMandobrony has also released a couple of songs, namely their Rarity and Pinkie Pie songs.
2. Silent Night - between the review and starting writing this post heâs released one complete new song, as well as remastering a couple older songs, but hasnât been seen in over year, which is really a shame especially considering he left off with a pretty sick demo. Actually just now he released a new song a few weeks ago after I wrote his section of the update, so Iâm have to update this and Iâm going to split this into two parts before it goes more out of date :P. Since I only did four songs by him, but five for everyone else, I'll do another song now:
This song opens with a groovy riff reminiscent of early Black Sabbath, and thus a riff worthy of the greatest riff maker of all time. It serves as a perfect hook. The vocals have a bit of hallowed sound to them, reminding me a bit of a harsher version of Blue Oyster Cult, and the describe an event in the castle were the narrator (Celestia?) witnesses a Phoenix revive. The chorus is absolutely anthemic; itâs simple, but it draws you in. Half through there is a pretty neat guitar solo, following which is a more metaphorical verse. The final chorus is even more anthemic with backing shouts and pounding drums, really motivating you to rise. The original version of this song had extreme clipping, which turned me off from the otherwise excellent song, so thatâs why the remaster is so great.Â
3. Screams From Equestria
The EP I mentioned has been released. Other than that, heâs continued to release single songs, a couple for Pounce Aid, but no new projects. My favorites of these new songs are his collab with Crowcraller and this new melodeath song, and his doom metal song also stands out. He has pulled some of his old songs down, but Sacrifice the Young to Luna is back up.Â
After numerous delays, Everfree, his sophomore album, has been released. I have written a review on it. My favorite tracks from it are âOne Wishâ and âEverchangingâ. He has recently released another EP, The Origin Story, which takes more of an alternative metal/hard rock sound compared to the more progressive nature of his other songs. âDiscipleâ and  âBittersweetâ. He has announced many other albums, including that the current plan for Forever Broken is to release it in 5 EPs before compiling them into a two disc album.Â
{{Insomnia}} has changed his channel name to Chris WĂśhrer, but is still releasing pony music. Equestrian Lord released an album, Revenge of the Herd, but then pulled it back to make some changed, but then broke up, and the album remains unreleased. They do have some new songs since I featured them though. There is absolutely no updates for Vafrous Coyote, I think the channel name was already Versilaryan. Crimson AE did the same thing as Chris, the channel is now Alexander EngstrĂśm, and it so happens the two metal songs heâs released since the feature were shortly after said feature, and shortly before this post. Cannapplejackâs channel says he is inactive and all but two songs have been made private, Iâm not sure whatâs up with that, apparently for work on his non-pony band. His soundcloud is still active though, and has various tracks on it.Â
Sadly Pinkie Guy unexpectedly pulled his channel for professional reasons. Fortunately his compilation album Ggygxg is still up on his bandcamp.Â
The main Heylasfas has done is release the fantastic follow up to Nightfall, Destiny: A Tale of Unicorn Wings, which centers around Princess Twilight. If you thought Nightfall was great, Destiny is a whole ânother level. I actually got a message from Heylasfas before itâs release, but tumblr changed their layout and I forgot to check my mail so itâs too late for that, instead Iâm going to write a full review for it like I did for Everfree. Sheâs (sheâs not going by Kennedy anymore) also released another concept album thing about some cat or something and some other random songs. Theyâre also pretty neat. Â
He has released not one, but two albums since I featured him. Recently heâs been taking more from progressive rock and Steven Universe.Â
He announced an EP, but it hasnât come out. Heâs recently put out some other songs though, not sure if they were from the EP or not.Â
Kaossâs channel is down, I have no idea why or when it happened. Since the dearth ended ShinZm has been continuously releasing new songs, not much else to say. Secret Metal made a couple new songs a few months ago, but I still donât think he has enough songs to do a full spotlight. Beyond his own work, he sung as the storyteller in Moonrise and has been featured on other songs. Among The Herd has many so many new songs and they just keep getting better and better, so I'm going to give them a full spotlight sometime.  Skelius Mortalis has made some more soundtrack music, but not anymore pony or rock. Â
First off, most the songs are down on the page, but thatâs because he reuploaded the songs without the original cover art when he was redoing something with the channel. All the songs I featured have been reuploaded. Heâs been continuing to make songs, but recently they've been all video game related rather than pony, and heâs been doing more rock and less new genres. I think he did start a Letâs Play Channel as well, but he has some Letâs Play Videos on his main channel, mainly Five Nights at Freddies. He did make this hilarious thrash metal song about cakes though, and this neat pop rock song about Diamond Tiara just missed the spotlight.Â
His debut album, Rediscover, came out shortly after the feature. It consists of a mixture of new songs and remastered old songs, as well as an A Day to Remember cover. (Psst, I accidently bought normal version rather than the deluxe version and thus have never heard Serenity, so can someone who has it please hit me up?). Heâs also released an EP called Miniboss Battles with some accoustic and electronic stuff. Aside from that heâs released a lot of single, many featuring Dreamchanâs singing. Of his new stuff my favorite is this alternative rock song.Â
