We’ve made it- To the end of the ten year story; to the end of Light & Dark’s saga. This, to me, will always be an inexorable & beautiful facet of what defines Destiny’s soul, as a setting…
For me, this is and always will be the main theme of Destiny. It's what I heard bits of during the opening cinematic with man's arrival on Mars. That's that. It was the beginning. I hope it comes around again for the end.
Same here, this encapsulates destiny as a whole to me. And it fills me with nostalgia. What a shame no whole soundtrack since here has beat Music of the Spheres
Thank you Marty O’Donnel, Mike Sechrist, and Michael Salvatori for the best ost in gaming history. I dont think bungie can last without their contribution for long, they really were the best.
Good comment, but I did want to say that while Michael Sechrist did write some absolutely fanastic tracks, this piece predates Sechrist writing music for Bungie by over 5 years. When this piece was written, Sechrist was in QA. Crazy how every one of the original Bungie composers is gone now though. No one even noticed but C Paul Johnson (who worked on every track from non-MotS D1 and TTK) left Bungie in 2016 and then wrote a couple pieces as a contractor, and then he was completely gone with Warmind in 2018. C Paul wrote tracks such as Tranquility, Relic of Hope, Regicide, Cabal Stomp, Temple of Crota, Holliday, Rise, The Wretched Eye, A God on Mars, and so many more. O'Donnell/Salvatori/Johnson really were the magic of so much of Destiny's sound. Skye Lewin is still there so I think we'll still get some good tracks, but I'm not sure how they're going to write music for Destiny (which already took 6+ people), Marathon, and even more. I'm worried Bungie is just going to start getting contractors. :/
Assassin’s Creed 2 and Final Fantasy 7, also. Those two, along with this, are EASILY top three for me. One can tell that there was an extraordinary amount of emotion and passion behind the creation of those three games. A lot!
This is like farewell song to the Bungie we once knew and loved and at same time I feel like this song describes what Destiny could have been...truly epic scifi experience with great storytelling instead of looter shooter it became. Fuck Bungie's leadership for doing all the wrong decisions they did....
@@Balnazzardi Yes while I am young, I do have very very, VERY vague memories of D1 and it was awesome. I love the older sci-fi aspect instead of this ability driven cringe fest. I love the cosmodrome because I love seeing those massive colony ships. I like its sci-fi parts I was very, very young and did not know how special D1 was. I still play it and will until there's no D2 to play. It hurts me that the memories of D1 keep fading with only old playthroughs to bring them back. And eventually ill forget it'll exist. I took a break from it, and I am now playing again I just like playing weekly activities doing strikes etc. I'm good enough to do raids and other things like them but it's just not that fun. It just feels like any other looter shooter sometimes, but something is still different idk what. You are right they never got it to its potential.
The most impactful cutscene in the franchise. Too bad nothing ever lived to its full potential other than that 1 moment, maybe other than the Taken King stuff. The cutscene that says "I was born the traveller died" is a very close 2nd cause its emotional.
sageryan25 DOESN’T IT? I have a scene for my fanfiction that follows this. When the main character’s Ghost finds her. I love this piece to bits!! (Guardian of a Whispering Past on Wattpad if by some miracle you want to check it out. XD)
Lucky Lexicon Why didn't we get to go to Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Sol in the vanilla game? Man this music is great but it makes me really very sad because I am sure Chris Barrett and old employess at Bungie worked really hard to get this out to us at launch in Destiny 1. Man Destiny 3 is their last shot.
Part of this plays in the Tower with the release of the Final Shape and now if it comes on I have to stop and appreciate it every time. It's just that good of a piece of music.
@@equinoxruinouseffigy7856 I don’t remember hearing the horn motif, but they definitely used a lot of stuff from this album! I was so giddy when I heard it.
llAndrés_Mosqueirall Yeah, it really is. The feeling of so much to explore in Year I...We all always thought, “what mysteries lie in the divine beyond of our solar system?” This music really is extraordinarily beautiful.
The only sci-fi song that beats this for exploration beyond our solar system is the galaxy map theme of the first Mass Effect trilogy. That theme gives you a true sense of wonder, awe and sense of exploring the unknown. th-cam.com/video/OyaDuC7f8Rk/w-d-xo.html&t=
The quintessential sound of Destiny. Close your eyes and it takes you back to a time where hopes and dreams were still alive within Destiny. Poor management, poor writing, corporate greed and shortsightedness took away Destiny’s future.
@@dochedgehog Anyone can learn to play an instrument with practice, but it takes actual inspiration to write the notes. The quality of the music has become less noteworthy since his departure so that speaks for itself. I really don't care if the guy is an egotistical asshole or not, that means nothing to me but the passion in the music does.
@@breakdown2218 That’s not true. Salvatori & the other composers are doing a great job, they could pull off this kind of music too, but after Marty departed they decided the sountrack of the games should go on a different direction, probably to not deal with this Marty debacle for years.
It's crazy, this song brings tears to my eyes the second I listen to it everytime. This game was so magical to me as a kid that even today I feel the wonder it brought to me.
whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.
This vast universe is made up of light and dark. But we have never known of it at the time. That is until *it* arrived in our solar system. A marvel in which we humans both revered and amazed. We called it… the Traveler. With the light of the Traveler, we have been blessed with greatness. Our lifespan extends, it terraform our planets and moons. We have gained vast intelligence and achieve the means of interstellar travel. Humanity has evolved from our past ways and entered into the Golden Age of Men. However… like all Golden Ages, this was doomed to fall.
2:15 I SPECIFICALLY remember him documenting this section in a behind-the-scenes video. He showed the before-and-after between the demo and the live recording. That video almost singlehandedly inspired me to get into game scoring. Now it's removed, I can't find it anywhere.
Standing up for yourself and the work you and your team did isn't having an "ego", they just got pissed about Activision scrapping a big portion and re-writing the whole game, id have a BIG "ego" too if i worked on something for like 5 years and had most of it scrubbed
This music crystallize so much things. The voyage to the unknown, the first step on the moon, the childhood dream of going to space, the endeavor to get to new horizons. The very first step toward humanity's glorious future of prosperity. So one question : WHY ON EARTH THIS MUSIC NEVER MADE INTO VOYAGER-1'S GOLDEN RECORDS ?
There is some music from which you have goosebumps near ears. That is a real good music. But from this you have goosebumps everywhere on your body and near one things…
i love to revisit the first cutscene from D1 because it shows you how far we have come and far we are gonna go starting a D1 all the way to hopfully defeating the darkness in D3 and i tells me theres more to the story about the traveler that we dont know.
I seriously think The Path is the single best piece of composition in the entire Science Fiction genre as a whole and it doesn't even come close. This piece is a one in a billion masterpiece. I feel like the only Destiny OST since then that comes REMOTELY close to music of the spheres is Beyond Light's, Witch Queen does have drown in the deep (which has a vibe that reminds me a lot of MotS for some reason) and fantastic orchestral epics but still doesnt come close
I totally agree Music of the spheres is a masterpiece that Bungie tries to shove under the rug because of their issues with Marty. You could definitely argue it’s the best video game soundtrack of all time. This music shows us what Destiny could have been if Bungie wasn’t ran by incompetent morons. The melodies in music of the spheres are iconic and it’s baffling that Bungie barely uses ANY of it. It’s like if Star Wars only played the force theme once. It pisses me off.
@@Hardrive2677indeed, Destiny could have been Bungie's new Halo...instead it became a turd and they only partly managed to redeem themselves shortly with Destiny 2 before they fucked things up with it too. But even more sonits a shame how original Destiny was but a shell of what it could have been and original Destiny unlike original Halo for example was completely forgotten as soon as the sequel came out. No one will ever look back fondly at original Destiny unlike ppl will look on original Halo and its all thanks to their incompetent leadership who went and sold themselves to devil aka Activision-Blizzard. Bungie should have just stayed with Microsoft and negotiated a deal that would have allowed them to develope Destiny instead of making more Halo. Microsoft atleast would not have stepped in to take control of the creative process like Activision-Blizzard did
Words cannot describe how much I love this universe. It didn't go in the direction that I thought it would. It's like watching a parent of your go from this amazing person to someone that doesn't care for you anymore. I don't intend to sound to over exaggerate, but that's just how I feel.
My biggest regret is not buying the “Music of Destiny Volume 1” vinyl collectors set. I can’t find it anywhere now. I was so close to getting it but didn’t have a record player at the time.
@@GoogleAccount-jn5qb he was fired without cause and he won the lawsuit against them, so it absolutely was not his fault. And D2’s music can’t touch this.
Yeah but D2 took a different direction than D1. It became too mainstream with seasonal content. Instead of post apocalyptic sci fi game, we got a looter shooter. D2 is still fun and full of cool lore, but it doesn’t have the same feel as D1
I still find it crazy that Paul McCartney had such a big role in the music for Destiny. For years I thought he only did that “Hope for the Future” song, but he actually contributed quite a bit to the soundtrack otherwise. Apparently the three-note horn (heard around 0:18 in this track) was his contribution, and it’s used repeatedly almost as the main theme of Destiny. It’s a shame that the trouble with Activision and Marty O’Donnell messed things up.
The first few notes that play send chills down my body. Literally the definition of a mystical sense of mystery in wonder in just the games MUSIC ALONE. Phenomenal score
this is it. the end. can't believe Bungie themselves killed this wonder of a project after so many great moments and memories. but thanks to these, Destiny will never be gone from our hearts. thank you Martin and Michael for giving life to this universe throughout the last 10 years. Aetas Trivmphi will live on.
I love destiny 1. I couldn’t wait to get home from work on a Tuesday and do the raids. Day one player destiny 2 is on the decline. I still play it. But it will never compare to the good days of destiny 1
@@abdoul5176 How so? This music was composed for Destiny, used partly in Destiny, and then never used again. I understand that Marty was fired, but they've already used other pieces that he has composed in Destiny 2, and it is necessary to keep the games feeling intertwined. Let's use the track 'Guardian' as an example. It is used multiple times in Destiny 2 to keep continuity and to add an emotional, resonating value to the pieces. If they invented an entirely new theme to replace it in D2, it would feel a lot less impactful. If they use this in Shadowkeep, it will make Destiny 1 and 2 feel a lot more connected. I feel like the inclusion of a single track isn't unfair. Adding it in another game is better than letting it collect dust.
Well he did win a lawsuit against Bungie. Also I'm pretty sure Marty only write music of the spheres and not any other part of the destiny soundtrack, so Guardian isn't Marty's. But I could be wrong
Leaning back and truly listening to this song, to me it tells a whole story in this short 6:20, but in that time it weaves such a beautiful narrative of history of a planet, and all the life that flows through it in such beautiful detail. Leading to a journey into the beyond, realizing the vast beauty that the universe holds in so many spaces, realizing you are only able to explore so much at a time, then starting the descent onto a newfound planet, with unknown beauty awaiting. Or maybe I'm just really high
You would think Activision would treat something touched on by Paul McCartney with much more respect, let alone Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori who are legends in their own right 🙄😒
I don’t think Activision allows anyone with any real sense of things like “Respect” or “Basic Human Decency” to rise up the corporate totem poll without either stamping those out if they can or firing them if they can’t.
Some of the best music in video games!! It’s also not all in the game... What a shame! Who is to blame! Few refrain to say Activision! Okay, I’ll just say it: FIRST!!!
It's a shame that newer info says otherwise. Bungie has creative control over Destiny, Activision does want enough money to make a handsome profit and the Destiny that was initially planned would have done this. The Bungie executives wanted more though so they scrapped everything and set the game up to be a money cow just to squeeze a little more out at the expense of what Destiny was going to be. The only reason Activision is bad is just because they don't care as long as they make money. Bungie has lost its culture, they no longer make games that they want to play, they make games to stuff their accounts.
Yeah, that’s true that Bungie’s still very in control. Unfortunately it’s also because video games are so expensive to make now in days so this is the price we pay, but companies like Nintendo show that there’s a better way to monetize games anyway.
Curtis Jensen Games are more expensive but more people are also buying them. It's sort of like saying " Movies are so much more expensive to make these days with all of the cgi and such. That's the price we pay for having to buy the last ten to twenty minutes of the movie separately to be able to see the end."
Plus. If they're going to implement free to play business models, the games themselves should be free. There's no excuse for still making us spend anything on the games themselves other than just lining their pockets if they're going to do that.
I’m sorry, but D2’s music just doesn’t cut it for me. Part of what made Destiny 1 so amazing was the soundtrack, and Marty O’Donnell was the mastermind behind it. To this day I still think it was one of the dumbest ideas for them to let Marty go
after the recent delay to tfs and all the layoffs and unfortunate events. It's here i come to to remind myself that despite the game currently being in shambles, at least we have all the amazing ost's to get through these times :EDIT forget about what i had said. after finding out Salvatori was also layedoff this truly is the end for destiny 2. i don't see tfs having anywhere near as a good ost playlist like previous years
Its sad to say this close to the end of destiny's main saga... but better late than never. I love and always will love the IDEA of Destiny. The way that this game has been treated is beyond cruel and what its image today is, is a bastardization of what it could have been.
Mary O'Donnell must know that the music of the spheres is the Unification Theory of Everything. I would have the Soundtrack of world salvation no other way.
We only get to hear small part of this music.. Did you know that a boy choir called Libera had a part in this...I wish the game had the whole sound track, I don't know why they change it.....
@@sneaklone_lot of us expected Destiny to be story driven/focused scifi shooter like Halo, not some damn looter shooter it eventually became. I know for many looter shooter fans Destiny was great experience but for us who wanted and expected something more like Halo...well we got screwed over by Activision-Blizzard and Bungie's leadership
They never changed. Sure, they left behind Halo to create Destiny. I understand how it feels to lose your favourite game franchise. It's painful, to say the least. You have to understand though, Bungie now? They've never been better. They were released from Activision's grasp, and now they can build up Destiny 2 to new heights, making it better than ever. What more do you ask of them? They keep getting taken advantage of by crueler companies.
MajCorpsie I know this was 4 months ago but Bungie wanted Microsoft to find their new project Destiny but saw Halo as more valuable so Microsoft acquired the rights to halo and Bungie went its own way.
@@revenants.6992 Actually Microsoft always had the rights to Halo since around 2000 when Bungie was bought by Microsoft, that was the deal. Under Microsoft they were just a studio name, not their own company, anything they created was Microsoft IP. The deal to leave was to make 2 more Halo games after leaving, with a profit sharing agreement. Destiny was a different story. After leaving Microsoft they became an LLC and a real company again, then finished the agreement. Meanwhile Bungie sought a publisher who was willing to fund their new project without buying them and allowing them to keep all their IP to themselves, essentially just an investment/profit share. Only one was interested. Activision wasn't supposed to be allowed to make any decisions on Bungies projects. Though it kinda seems like they interfered anyway. At least Activision let Bungie go early from their 10 year contract. Bungie has the capital now to go without a publisher.
Destiny could've been something great, greater than Halo probably. But the higher-ups' biggest misstep was shafting the people with true talent and creativity. I'll always wonder what could've been. :(
Well impossible to say as Bungie's original vision for Destiny seemed to have been killed off quite early in development. Ive recently played the opening part of Destiny 2 (which is exactly the same as in original Destiny in my understanding, that starting area) and I can definitely see the epicness/potential of it from there in the setting/world design, but right from the start I couldnt care less for characters or the story, it seemed like completely second thought. So idk, for me its hard to imagine them being able to create something better than Halo, but I can definitely say that had Bungie just stuck with Microsoft and not demand them having Destiny IP for themselves, I think Destiny would have turned out so much better than what it eventually did. I mean I was extremely disappointed to learn through its development that it turned into "cheap man's MMO" instead of story driven singleplayer epicness...I mean I wouldnt have minded co-op obviously, but its clear that Activision wanted that kind of looter-shooter/cheap MMO design instead.
@@Balnazzardi the original campaign of D2 was a lot better but they had to reduce the game's size and replaced it with a crappier d1 campaign. I'm not gonna say D2 launch was perfect but red war was a great campaign.
Ultimately though the raids and dungeons have been what defined Destiny at this point, the fact that there is an MMOlite FPS game with raiding content is fantastic and unfortunately no other games do it. I'm not going to argue that the singleplayer could've been fantastic but its been the social content that's kept me playing all these years@@Balnazzardi
@@sneaklone_ ye I know many did enjoy both Destiny games just for that and propably enjoyed them lot more than they would have if they had beem just story driven games like Halo with some multiplayer aspects/raiding aspects (but not as their main focus). In the end I dont even know how much Bungie's original vision changed for Destiny because of Activision-Blizzard but I do know they completely screwed over what Marty O'Donnel and Joseph Staten had in mind and both left or were kicked out of Bungie before the game was released. Lot of us were wanting and expecting more of Halo like game with storytelling as its focus but all of that was in the end put at the background while raiding/looter shooter aspects took the main focus
We’ve made it- To the end of the ten year story; to the end of Light & Dark’s saga. This, to me, will always be an inexorable & beautiful facet of what defines Destiny’s soul, as a setting…
For me, this is and always will be the main theme of Destiny. It's what I heard bits of during the opening cinematic with man's arrival on Mars. That's that. It was the beginning. I hope it comes around again for the end.
amen!!!!!!!!!!
guardian is the main theme. it plays during the recent trailers for d2 shadowkeep as well
Same here, this encapsulates destiny as a whole to me. And it fills me with nostalgia. What a shame no whole soundtrack since here has beat Music of the Spheres
Congratulations. Your wish has been granted! Play the revamped new light campaign.
The final shape draws near; darkness and light collide. A new forefront of discovery for the story of the Destiny franchise is around the corner...
Thank you Marty O’Donnel, Mike Sechrist, and Michael Salvatori for the best ost in gaming history. I dont think bungie can last without their contribution for long, they really were the best.
Good comment, but I did want to say that while Michael Sechrist did write some absolutely fanastic tracks, this piece predates Sechrist writing music for Bungie by over 5 years. When this piece was written, Sechrist was in QA.
Crazy how every one of the original Bungie composers is gone now though. No one even noticed but C Paul Johnson (who worked on every track from non-MotS D1 and TTK) left Bungie in 2016 and then wrote a couple pieces as a contractor, and then he was completely gone with Warmind in 2018. C Paul wrote tracks such as Tranquility, Relic of Hope, Regicide, Cabal Stomp, Temple of Crota, Holliday, Rise, The Wretched Eye, A God on Mars, and so many more. O'Donnell/Salvatori/Johnson really were the magic of so much of Destiny's sound. Skye Lewin is still there so I think we'll still get some good tracks, but I'm not sure how they're going to write music for Destiny (which already took 6+ people), Marathon, and even more. I'm worried Bungie is just going to start getting contractors. :/
It's a shame that they fired Michael and like 50 others.
Satan infiltrated the Company, too many Christian-like symbolic messages in the music for the Evil one.@@Archotech_3301
Assassin’s Creed 2 and Final Fantasy 7, also. Those two, along with this, are EASILY top three for me. One can tell that there was an extraordinary amount of emotion and passion behind the creation of those three games. A lot!
It’s been nearly a decade, and this music still has deep hints of nostalgia.
This is like farewell song to the Bungie we once knew and loved and at same time I feel like this song describes what Destiny could have been...truly epic scifi experience with great storytelling instead of looter shooter it became.
Fuck Bungie's leadership for doing all the wrong decisions they did....
@@Balnazzardi Yes while I am young, I do have very very, VERY vague memories of D1 and it was awesome. I love the older sci-fi aspect instead of this ability driven cringe fest. I love the cosmodrome because I love seeing those massive colony ships. I like its sci-fi parts I was very, very young and did not know how special D1 was. I still play it and will until there's no D2 to play. It hurts me that the memories of D1 keep fading with only old playthroughs to bring them back. And eventually ill forget it'll exist. I took a break from it, and I am now playing again I just like playing weekly activities doing strikes etc. I'm good enough to do raids and other things like them but it's just not that fun. It just feels like any other looter shooter sometimes, but something is still different idk what. You are right they never got it to its potential.
4:43 the nostalgia makes me tear up every time
Same bro same
Same
The most impactful cutscene in the franchise. Too bad nothing ever lived to its full potential other than that 1 moment, maybe other than the Taken King stuff. The cutscene that says "I was born the traveller died" is a very close 2nd cause its emotional.
Almost crying rn ngl
It's kind of crazy realizing I've been playing a game (and sequel) for 6+ years at this point.
4:16 is perfect harmony
This is why a game like destiny 1 will never die, thank you Marty for such an amazing soundtrack
If you boot it up it's quite dead actually 💀
@@DioStandProud u aint wrong brother 💀💀
That intro..teleports you back to 2014 where there was so much mystery to this game
4:53 Three astronauts look over the martian hill to see the Traveler
5:05 Destiny
we called it the Traveler, and its arrival changed us forever
Destiny music will always have so many great and beautiful memories tied with it
An potato that’s what I’m saying! These compositions are absolutely BEAUTIFUL
Love ur profile pic!
@@Archotech_3301 thank you
@@Hanz_Goober your welcome.
@@Archotech_3301 What is that name 😭
not like i dont think the same way
I like D2's music, but this ANNIHILATES IT.
sageryan25 DOESN’T IT? I have a scene for my fanfiction that follows this. When the main character’s Ghost finds her. I love this piece to bits!! (Guardian of a Whispering Past on Wattpad if by some miracle you want to check it out. XD)
Lucky Lexicon Stop.
Big Versace ...why? What’d I do??
Lucky Lexicon I'd check it out!
Lucky Lexicon Why didn't we get to go to Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Sol in the vanilla game? Man this music is great but it makes me really very sad because I am sure Chris Barrett and old employess at Bungie worked really hard to get this out to us at launch in Destiny 1. Man Destiny 3 is their last shot.
Part of this plays in the Tower with the release of the Final Shape and now if it comes on I have to stop and appreciate it every time. It's just that good of a piece of music.
Man why am i crying ? It makes a mixture of old memories and nostalgia 😢
I would cry real tears if they use the horn motif in the Final Shape ost
They are 100% lol, no way they don’t use it for nostalgia bait
@@sneaklone_ At this point I’m certain of it, too. Hype
They have already! We’ve heard it in the live streams
@@equinoxruinouseffigy7856 I don’t remember hearing the horn motif, but they definitely used a lot of stuff from this album! I was so giddy when I heard it.
@@mose3775 th-cam.com/video/325WaAILsAE/w-d-xo.html 10:30 :)
This is beautiful and nostalgic
llAndrés_Mosqueirall Yeah, it really is. The feeling of so much to explore in Year I...We all always thought, “what mysteries lie in the divine beyond of our solar system?” This music really is extraordinarily beautiful.
The only sci-fi song that beats this for exploration beyond our solar system is the galaxy map theme of the first Mass Effect trilogy. That theme gives you a true sense of wonder, awe and sense of exploring the unknown. th-cam.com/video/OyaDuC7f8Rk/w-d-xo.html&t=
The quintessential sound of Destiny. Close your eyes and it takes you back to a time where hopes and dreams were still alive within Destiny. Poor management, poor writing, corporate greed and shortsightedness took away Destiny’s future.
I'll take this music and create more dreams
Marty O'Donnell is and always will be a genius.
he was one composer, stop overhyping the groups effort.
guys doing this are awful. the whole reason marty thinks hes untouchable
@@dochedgehog Anyone can learn to play an instrument with practice, but it takes actual inspiration to write the notes. The quality of the music has become less noteworthy since his departure so that speaks for itself. I really don't care if the guy is an egotistical asshole or not, that means nothing to me but the passion in the music does.
@@dochedgehog michael’s tracks are great but Marty elevates anything he touches to an astronomical level
@@breakdown2218 That’s not true. Salvatori & the other composers are doing a great job, they could pull off this kind of music too, but after Marty departed they decided the sountrack of the games should go on a different direction, probably to not deal with this Marty debacle for years.
@@breakdown2218personally I disagree, I think Beyond Light’s whole OST in particular holds up to the MotS very well
I might have stopped playing destiny 2 but this doesn't stop playing
If the Destiny franchise ever comes to an absolute close, this song better be in the closing scenes and recap.
Hey man, I’m here to tell you, it kinda is
KNOCK KNOCK FINALITY TAKES SHAPE
Man this is so beautiful destinys music is still amazing today but this is on another level!
It's crazy, this song brings tears to my eyes the second I listen to it everytime. This game was so magical to me as a kid that even today I feel the wonder it brought to me.
I hope any TV series or movie they do about Destiny starts with the reveal of the Traveler with this music. It’s magical, surreal, one of a kind.
Crazy to think we’ve come so far and that there’s a possibility where it ends because of poor management and greed. Eyes up Guardian
Destiny music has always been good, including the most recent ones, but this is still just better.
whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can punch through those defenses, take this beast out, and break their grip on Freehold.
"You can block it, even try to trap it, but the Light will find its way."
Damn you. :')
This vast universe is made up of light and dark. But we have never known of it at the time. That is until *it* arrived in our solar system. A marvel in which we humans both revered and amazed.
We called it… the Traveler.
With the light of the Traveler, we have been blessed with greatness. Our lifespan extends, it terraform our planets and moons. We have gained vast intelligence and achieve the means of interstellar travel. Humanity has evolved from our past ways and entered into the Golden Age of Men.
However… like all Golden Ages, this was doomed to fall.
Woahhhh holy crap this sounds completely different from the first version on marty’s channel
On his channel we got a sample of the entire composition. This is the end result.
2:15 I SPECIFICALLY remember him documenting this section in a behind-the-scenes video. He showed the before-and-after between the demo and the live recording. That video almost singlehandedly inspired me to get into game scoring. Now it's removed, I can't find it anywhere.
What did Marty do? Why’d he have such a big ego
Standing up for yourself and the work you and your team did isn't having an "ego", they just got pissed about Activision scrapping a big portion and re-writing the whole game, id have a BIG "ego" too if i worked on something for like 5 years and had most of it scrubbed
is the behind the scenes video one that's on his channel?
This piece is a religious experience, my God.
This music crystallize so much things. The voyage to the unknown, the first step on the moon, the childhood dream of going to space, the endeavor to get to new horizons.
The very first step toward humanity's glorious future of prosperity.
So one question :
WHY ON EARTH THIS MUSIC NEVER MADE INTO VOYAGER-1'S GOLDEN RECORDS ?
the music was only 37 years late
There is some music from which you have goosebumps near ears. That is a real good music. But from this you have goosebumps everywhere on your body and near one things…
This is the magic I remember. Thank you for a full version of this song. 💫
i love to revisit the first cutscene from D1 because it shows you how far we have come and far we are gonna go starting a D1 all the way to hopfully defeating the darkness in D3 and i tells me theres more to the story about the traveler that we dont know.
It's a pity we almost definitely won't get a d3
@@sporg9806 yeah
@@Man_Oh_War D3 more like Lightfall
Wonderful Inspired
I’ve honestly never even played Destiny. Yet this is one of my favourites tracks.. Unreal Marty!
I seriously think The Path is the single best piece of composition in the entire Science Fiction genre as a whole and it doesn't even come close. This piece is a one in a billion masterpiece. I feel like the only Destiny OST since then that comes REMOTELY close to music of the spheres is Beyond Light's, Witch Queen does have drown in the deep (which has a vibe that reminds me a lot of MotS for some reason) and fantastic orchestral epics but still doesnt come close
I totally agree Music of the spheres is a masterpiece that Bungie tries to shove under the rug because of their issues with Marty. You could definitely argue it’s the best video game soundtrack of all time. This music shows us what Destiny could have been if Bungie wasn’t ran by incompetent morons.
The melodies in music of the spheres are iconic and it’s baffling that Bungie barely uses ANY of it. It’s like if Star Wars only played the force theme once. It pisses me off.
@@Hardrive2677indeed, Destiny could have been Bungie's new Halo...instead it became a turd and they only partly managed to redeem themselves shortly with Destiny 2 before they fucked things up with it too.
But even more sonits a shame how original Destiny was but a shell of what it could have been and original Destiny unlike original Halo for example was completely forgotten as soon as the sequel came out. No one will ever look back fondly at original Destiny unlike ppl will look on original Halo and its all thanks to their incompetent leadership who went and sold themselves to devil aka Activision-Blizzard.
Bungie should have just stayed with Microsoft and negotiated a deal that would have allowed them to develope Destiny instead of making more Halo.
Microsoft atleast would not have stepped in to take control of the creative process like Activision-Blizzard did
@@Balnazzardimuh activision
Words cannot describe how much I love this universe. It didn't go in the direction that I thought it would. It's like watching a parent of your go from this amazing person to someone that doesn't care for you anymore. I don't intend to sound to over exaggerate, but that's just how I feel.
Marty! Good luck
Brings tears to me eyes every time ❤️
Who’s here after the final shape?
I am
To this day the chills
Forever the main titled theme of the entirety of all games Destiny has to offer.
My biggest regret is not buying the “Music of Destiny Volume 1” vinyl collectors set. I can’t find it anywhere now. I was so close to getting it but didn’t have a record player at the time.
Omg just that first note hit me with a wave of nostalgia.
Rip old bungie, you guys fired your best element : Marty O'Donnel
dude their music is still perfectly good without that guy, his fault he got himself fired.
@@GoogleAccount-jn5qb he was fired without cause and he won the lawsuit against them, so it absolutely was not his fault. And D2’s music can’t touch this.
They still have Michael Salvatori and the new music is still great
Yeah but D2 took a different direction than D1. It became too mainstream with seasonal content. Instead of post apocalyptic sci fi game, we got a looter shooter. D2 is still fun and full of cool lore, but it doesn’t have the same feel as D1
love
I still find it crazy that Paul McCartney had such a big role in the music for Destiny. For years I thought he only did that “Hope for the Future” song, but he actually contributed quite a bit to the soundtrack otherwise. Apparently the three-note horn (heard around 0:18 in this track) was his contribution, and it’s used repeatedly almost as the main theme of Destiny.
It’s a shame that the trouble with Activision and Marty O’Donnell messed things up.
Beutiful music
The first few notes that play send chills down my body. Literally the definition of a mystical sense of mystery in wonder in just the games MUSIC ALONE. Phenomenal score
this is it. the end. can't believe Bungie themselves killed this wonder of a project after so many great moments and memories. but thanks to these, Destiny will never be gone from our hearts. thank you Martin and Michael for giving life to this universe throughout the last 10 years. Aetas Trivmphi will live on.
I love destiny 1. I couldn’t wait to get home from work on a Tuesday and do the raids. Day one player destiny 2 is on the decline. I still play it. But it will never compare to the good days of destiny 1
This better play in Shadowkeep.
I don't think that would be fair to Marty.
@@abdoul5176 How so? This music was composed for Destiny, used partly in Destiny, and then never used again. I understand that Marty was fired, but they've already used other pieces that he has composed in Destiny 2, and it is necessary to keep the games feeling intertwined.
Let's use the track 'Guardian' as an example. It is used multiple times in Destiny 2 to keep continuity and to add an emotional, resonating value to the pieces. If they invented an entirely new theme to replace it in D2, it would feel a lot less impactful. If they use this in Shadowkeep, it will make Destiny 1 and 2 feel a lot more connected.
I feel like the inclusion of a single track isn't unfair. Adding it in another game is better than letting it collect dust.
@@majcorpsie5345 Whatever Bungie does with Marty's music I hope he gets kick back from it.
@@majcorpsie5345 looks like the other guy got the w
Well he did win a lawsuit against Bungie. Also I'm pretty sure Marty only write music of the spheres and not any other part of the destiny soundtrack, so Guardian isn't Marty's. But I could be wrong
Chills! Chills! Chills!
Leaning back and truly listening to this song, to me it tells a whole story in this short 6:20, but in that time it weaves such a beautiful narrative of history of a planet, and all the life that flows through it in such beautiful detail. Leading to a journey into the beyond, realizing the vast beauty that the universe holds in so many spaces, realizing you are only able to explore so much at a time, then starting the descent onto a newfound planet, with unknown beauty awaiting.
Or maybe I'm just really high
You would think Activision would treat something touched on by Paul McCartney with much more respect, let alone Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori who are legends in their own right 🙄😒
I don’t think Activision allows anyone with any real sense of things like “Respect” or “Basic Human Decency” to rise up the corporate totem poll without either stamping those out if they can or firing them if they can’t.
muh activision
Literal magic
thank you for this i literally started crying man i miss d1
Some of the best music in video games!! It’s also not all in the game... What a shame! Who is to blame! Few refrain to say Activision!
Okay, I’ll just say it: FIRST!!!
It's a shame that newer info says otherwise. Bungie has creative control over Destiny, Activision does want enough money to make a handsome profit and the Destiny that was initially planned would have done this. The Bungie executives wanted more though so they scrapped everything and set the game up to be a money cow just to squeeze a little more out at the expense of what Destiny was going to be.
The only reason Activision is bad is just because they don't care as long as they make money.
Bungie has lost its culture, they no longer make games that they want to play, they make games to stuff their accounts.
Yeah, that’s true that Bungie’s still very in control. Unfortunately it’s also because video games are so expensive to make now in days so this is the price we pay, but companies like Nintendo show that there’s a better way to monetize games anyway.
Curtis Jensen Games are more expensive but more people are also buying them. It's sort of like saying " Movies are so much more expensive to make these days with all of the cgi and such. That's the price we pay for having to buy the last ten to twenty minutes of the movie separately to be able to see the end."
Plus. If they're going to implement free to play business models, the games themselves should be free. There's no excuse for still making us spend anything on the games themselves other than just lining their pockets if they're going to do that.
Here from the other side, Bungie is now independent... and we can’t blame activision. Destiny still sucks at not living to it’s potential
Really a shame Martin was fired by Bungie and that this music isn't used anymore in the game (or for development)
I’m sorry, but D2’s music just doesn’t cut it for me. Part of what made Destiny 1 so amazing was the soundtrack, and Marty O’Donnell was the mastermind behind it. To this day I still think it was one of the dumbest ideas for them to let Marty go
D2 music is mostly a bunch of stringed leimotifs. Destiny lost a lot of soul througout the years because of the DLC model and the need for mass appeal
I disagree, i think that a lot of D2 OST (particularly beyond light's soundtrack) stands toe to toe with mots very well
wait, i just read the description
Paul McCartney, like THE Paul from The Beatles ??
after the recent delay to tfs and all the layoffs and unfortunate events. It's here i come to to remind myself that despite the game currently being in shambles, at least we have all the amazing ost's to get through these times :EDIT forget about what i had said. after finding out Salvatori was also layedoff this truly is the end for destiny 2. i don't see tfs having anywhere near as a good ost playlist like previous years
All we ever got from destiny were glimpses at what could have been. This one's still the most painful.
1:06 chills man!
D2 in comparison is inexistent
i mean the beyond light ost is pretty good, but this has that nostalgic touch that you cant get yet with the destiny 2 ost so we just have to wait
Eye's up guardians
The flow of the music is very reminiscent of final fantasy 7
We're back, fellas.
Hell yeah!
Who is listening to this after 7 years?
I grew up listening to this and now its sad destiny over 😢
Getting some real Ghibli vibes out of a lot of this.
Its sad to say this close to the end of destiny's main saga... but better late than never. I love and always will love the IDEA of Destiny. The way that this game has been treated is beyond cruel and what its image today is, is a bastardization of what it could have been.
fucking called it!!!!
Si un jour un film Destiny est fait, je veux cette musique comme générique de début
We know that one will
Just makes me tear
Hearing this on mars again was awesome.
Which part?
A distorted version of the part that plays in the destiny opening cutscene plays in the enclave.
@@vorpalweapon4814 you know what the track is called by any chance?
th-cam.com/video/USzlcxkGAeM/w-d-xo.html Pyramidified version of this. The actual enclave track is f
called unseen.
@@vorpalweapon4814 Thank you!
Mary O'Donnell must know that the music of the spheres is the Unification Theory of Everything.
I would have the Soundtrack of world salvation no other way.
Si dios bajara le diria que este es el pinaculo de la creación musical humana
We only get to hear small part of this music.. Did you know that a boy choir called Libera had a part in this...I wish the game had the whole sound track, I don't know why they change it.....
This is a gem, but Marty’s version will always top anything destiny has to offer
This is literally Marty's version
@@heretichero2160 this is literally multiple composers... fs you guys re lame
I could see 1:07 onwards being the intro to a new destiny game
This is Marty's music bungie can't use it.
@@mysticswordsman5688 yet destiny 2 has a piece of his music in the original campaign
@@mysticswordsman5688 uh.... yes, they can and they did.
I am incorrect.
Only good thing about this game. And it was damn fine music
(And the raiding content)
@@sneaklone_lot of us expected Destiny to be story driven/focused scifi shooter like Halo, not some damn looter shooter it eventually became.
I know for many looter shooter fans Destiny was great experience but for us who wanted and expected something more like Halo...well we got screwed over by Activision-Blizzard and Bungie's leadership
2:20 is the best part to me
Human lifespan tripled :)
I've spent more time listening to this song than I've spent playing Destiny.
Didn't even realize how bungie made a song referencing HP Lovecraft
Yeah, except that this cosmic horror is a benevolent being that blessed and saved humanity, and created immortal warriors that wield it's power.
@@JKgyaru6969 or maybe it's just using them for ulterior motives
Mercury became a garden world!
1 Thrall disliked
Nah, it was oryx and crota.
CKF Gaming Then I guess I stand corrected, Guardian...Damn, those Hive just never learn.
@@nolungs2146 It was a pesky Taken Psion that decided to multiply.
bungie is trying to take these down, please download them before it's too late.
The legacy of what Bungie was
and what they still are, they have just lost it deep within themselves
Iván Pastor Simarro y1 was really bad, its just nostalgia
They never changed. Sure, they left behind Halo to create Destiny. I understand how it feels to lose your favourite game franchise. It's painful, to say the least. You have to understand though, Bungie now? They've never been better. They were released from Activision's grasp, and now they can build up Destiny 2 to new heights, making it better than ever. What more do you ask of them? They keep getting taken advantage of by crueler companies.
MajCorpsie I know this was 4 months ago but Bungie wanted Microsoft to find their new project Destiny but saw Halo as more valuable so Microsoft acquired the rights to halo and Bungie went its own way.
@@revenants.6992 Actually Microsoft always had the rights to Halo since around 2000 when Bungie was bought by Microsoft, that was the deal. Under Microsoft they were just a studio name, not their own company, anything they created was Microsoft IP. The deal to leave was to make 2 more Halo games after leaving, with a profit sharing agreement.
Destiny was a different story. After leaving Microsoft they became an LLC and a real company again, then finished the agreement. Meanwhile Bungie sought a publisher who was willing to fund their new project without buying them and allowing them to keep all their IP to themselves, essentially just an investment/profit share. Only one was interested. Activision wasn't supposed to be allowed to make any decisions on Bungies projects. Though it kinda seems like they interfered anyway.
At least Activision let Bungie go early from their 10 year contract. Bungie has the capital now to go without a publisher.
Who's here in 2023?
I amm
It’s funny because I don’t think we ever hear this music on the moon
4:12
Holy fucking shit dude
leopard brought me here lepSTALL
this is peak destiny music composition
4:43
It's a waltz........ They made a waltz for a video game........ HOW DID THEY LEAVE IT OUT!
You guy's do realize this is under the same name of the song groth sings right?
We need a pre activison destiny simalar to sydercut that has Marty as a composer with the og plot as well .
Destiny could've been something great, greater than Halo probably. But the higher-ups' biggest misstep was shafting the people with true talent and creativity. I'll always wonder what could've been. :(
Well impossible to say as Bungie's original vision for Destiny seemed to have been killed off quite early in development. Ive recently played the opening part of Destiny 2 (which is exactly the same as in original Destiny in my understanding, that starting area) and I can definitely see the epicness/potential of it from there in the setting/world design, but right from the start I couldnt care less for characters or the story, it seemed like completely second thought.
So idk, for me its hard to imagine them being able to create something better than Halo, but I can definitely say that had Bungie just stuck with Microsoft and not demand them having Destiny IP for themselves, I think Destiny would have turned out so much better than what it eventually did. I mean I was extremely disappointed to learn through its development that it turned into "cheap man's MMO" instead of story driven singleplayer epicness...I mean I wouldnt have minded co-op obviously, but its clear that Activision wanted that kind of looter-shooter/cheap MMO design instead.
@@Balnazzardi the original campaign of D2 was a lot better but they had to reduce the game's size and replaced it with a crappier d1 campaign. I'm not gonna say D2 launch was perfect but red war was a great campaign.
@@PurePancakes113 I hate this decision and it’s one of the two reasons I hate D2.
Ultimately though the raids and dungeons have been what defined Destiny at this point, the fact that there is an MMOlite FPS game with raiding content is fantastic and unfortunately no other games do it. I'm not going to argue that the singleplayer could've been fantastic but its been the social content that's kept me playing all these years@@Balnazzardi
@@sneaklone_ ye I know many did enjoy both Destiny games just for that and propably enjoyed them lot more than they would have if they had beem just story driven games like Halo with some multiplayer aspects/raiding aspects (but not as their main focus).
In the end I dont even know how much Bungie's original vision changed for Destiny because of Activision-Blizzard but I do know they completely screwed over what Marty O'Donnel and Joseph Staten had in mind and both left or were kicked out of Bungie before the game was released. Lot of us were wanting and expecting more of Halo like game with storytelling as its focus but all of that was in the end put at the background while raiding/looter shooter aspects took the main focus
11 when I first played D1 and now 21 and just finished Final Shape, Time really does fly ;D