Two Steps From Hell - Invincible [Soundtrack] (2010) ((HOT))
They established themselves as a major player in the market of the late 2000s, providing tracks to trailers for major film franchises such as Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek and Twilight.[b] As the public became exposed to their music, the pair gained a cult following online who pleaded for their compositions to be made available to purchase;[6][7][21] Two Steps from Hell soon released their first two public albums, Invincible (2010) and Archangel (2011), collections of their most popular demo music to date.[14][22] These were followed by the album SkyWorld (2012), this time consisting entirely of brand new music straight to commercial release.[23] With these albums all successful,[3][6] the duo organized their first concert, at Walt Disney Concert Hall, in 2013.[5][14]
Two Steps From Hell - Invincible [Soundtrack] (2010)
Additionally, in July 2014 Two Steps from Hell released an e-book known as Colin Frake on Fire Mountain, which features a 75,000-word novel written by Nick Phoenix with illustrations by Otto Bjornik, as well as an original score also made available via a soundtrack release.[34] A sequel entitled Colin Frake: Asclepius was released in April 2017.[35]
Two Steps from Hell have expanded their catalog of creations beyond music by also releasing a series of e-books, each written by Phoenix. All are part of a planned pentalogy of sci-fi fantasy novels called Colin Frake. The series follows the adventures of the adolescent protagonist of the same name, set in the fictional world of "Reanne". Each book is accompanied by an orchestral soundtrack created by the group, and a collection of hand-drawn illustrations by artist Otto Björnik.[170][171]
In 2006, Phoenix formed Two Steps from Hell with his business partner, Thomas Bergersen, and the two publicly released the album Invincible in 2010. Trailers for the Harry Potter Franchise, Batman, Jurassic Park, Star Trek and numerous Pixar films helped bring Two Steps into the spotlight. Several additional commercial album releases have since followed, including Archangel and SkyWorld, each of which has charted on the iTunes top 100 in the Soundtracks category. Battlecry rose to #4 when it was released in 2015. In 2019, Two Steps released Dragon which peaked at #5 in the iTunes soundtrack category and #1 on Googleplay. Two Steps From Hell has also been the #1 streaming film music artist worldwide since 2017. The Two Steps From Hell YouTube channel has over 5 billion views. In 2018, both Invincible and Battlecry reached gold record status. Phoenix will perform a sold out European tour in 2022.
Excepting their first two forays in commercial music, Invincible (2010) and Archangel (2011), which are both solely compiled of tracks pulled from their already-produced demonstration albums (with the exceptions of Invincible's "Am I Not Human" and "To Glory", both of which then to be released on their industry album Nero), each album they release to the public is a mix of pre-existing (demonstration) work and brand-new, album-specific (studio) tracks. Halloween (2012), Classics: Volume One (2013), Miracles (2014), and Classics: Vol 2 (2015) are (so far) their chiefly demonstration tracks, while their only three(once again so far) mainly-original public albums are Skyworld (2012), Battlecry (2015) and Vanquish. (The only tracks pulled from a demonstration album are "Dark Ages", from Nemesis (2007) and "Amaria" from Amaria (2014) (originally as "Welcome to Amaria")).
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