Shinesparkers, the talented group behind Harmony of a Hunter, has announced that they’re preparing a tribute to Nintendo’s popular fighter, Super Smash Bros. This fan project aims to encapsulate all three Smash Bros games – the original Super Smash Bros on the Nintendo 64, GameCube sequel Melee and Brawl on Wii. The album will be titled Harmony of Heroes and will be available as a free digital download when it’s released in 2014. Here’s what Darren from Shinesparkers had to say about the exciting project.
“Our latest project builds on the success of our previous projects Harmony of a Hunter and Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run, which were created in celebration and support of Metroid’s twenty fifth anniversary. While we were proud of our achievements, we were overwhelmed by the love and support of our albums that we decided to consider another. After 101% Run released and seventy five tracks later, we were satisfied that we had effectively covered the vast majority of music from the Metroid franchise to a standard that many fans could appreciate. But we also knew that it would be difficult to fill a third album of music from the franchise.”
“It was important that our next album had a different focus, but still appealed to the dedicated and loyal fan base we had received. To ensure this was still achievable, we decided that Harmony of Heroes would also be highly diverse in terms of musical genre and feature musicians like our previous projects. We identified that a lot of Metroid fans were also fans of other Nintendo franchises and Super Smash Bros, so we felt it would be a desirable project. Super Smash Bros is a hot topic right now with fans eagerly anticipating the upcoming games on Nintendo Wii U and 3DS.”
“Harmony of Heroes will focus on music from all three Super Smash Bros games and feature some of the most cherished and loved franchises in Nintendo history, including Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Kirby and Pokemon. We also want to assure people that the Metroid franchise will be suitably represented in Harmony of Heroes. I can confirm that some musicians from our previous projects will be contributing music to this album, as well as brand new musicians hoping to make their debut for the first time. Harmony of Heroes will be assisted by Pyro Paper Planes and Buoy, two musicians from Harmony of a Hunter. Both of them have been a huge and essential support to the project so far, offering some great advice and suggestions to make this album something incredibly special. You will be hearing more from them during the development of this project. We are also thankful to Sam Dillard for creating and scoring our announcement trailer.”
“Finally, I would like to confirm that Harmony of Heroes will be released in 2014 as a free digital release via our website. We hope that Smash Bros fans will look forward to our project and that fans of Shinesparkers and Harmony of a Hunter will continue to support us.”
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i thought this super smash brothers 4 :(
Yeah same. XD Im pretty sure Nintendo wants to save that for E3 so we will eventually see news for it. :3
Can’t wait for this, music is one of my favourite parts of Nintendo games
Hey, sickr! Thanks for this post! I’m a member and content writer for Shinesparkers and although I’m not directly involved with the Harmony projects, I’m a huge fan of Darren’s work getting together so many talented musicians for the albums and love seeing these kinds of posts around the web!
The Harmony of a Hunter albums were amazing, but being Metroid-oriented their fanbase is limited to a certain niche. I’m sure Harmony of Heroes will be a success throughout all of Nintendo’s various fandoms!
I hope you guys eventually get together to do something similar for Zelda.
I never get tired of the creative alternatives people come up with for songs from that series.
Darren also loves Zelda very much. Of course Zelda themes will be featured in HoH, but a full album for the series is always amongst the requests. We’ll just have to wait and see. :)
I don’t know if this is going to be good
Check out the Harmony of a Hunter albums at http://www.harmonyofahunter.net/ and then come say that again. ;)
Can’t wait! :D
Ooooooooo, that video gave me SHIVERS!
I can’t wait to see how it turns out, there’s so much potential for this.
e3Nintendo you better fucking show super smash brother 4 and show it on the demo floor for everyone to play and bring a live demo for people to play @ home damit >,<
Nintendo announced that they will show SSB4 at E3, the only thing they haven’t announced is how they will show it like a game play trailer or even a demo mode so it’s exciting to see what they will do. :3
Better have the Onett stage music…
Shinesparkers, you make your Empire proud and I’ll spread the word…
Should really read the full title before getting instantly hyped up and then immediately disappointed xD
Haha, you too Dragon?
Can’t blame you, though; this is my #1 most wanted game aside from Zelda and Cryamore.
I’m just curious but which is your favorite ssb game? I think melee is the best just wanna know if I’m a minority, I was playing melee a few days ago and it just felt so much better than brawl, but that’s just my opinion. I wanna hear from you guys…
Super Smash Bros: Harmony Of Heroes would be a good title for the next smash game.
I agree!
I loved HoaH! It almost made me cry. Mainly because I’m a big Metroid fan.
I believe that those bodies are the bodies for the actual game, they look to amazing just for a advertisment. Also, Does anyone else think maybe the 4th game could be called ‘tribute’ or something similar?
OMG OMG IM SO EXCITED!
I have brawl! Shadow,metal sonic, mew, mewtwo,Pkmn trainer red,Gary oak,team rocket,geno,Steve from minecraft,The baby mario bros,sonic the werehog as a transformation for sonic,bowser jr/shadow mario, dr mario, Roy from Melee,raichu,pichu,MEGAMAN, The robotisized masters,goku, sliver,and mephilis the dark better be in it!
How do I change my picture box?