SkyWorld

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SkyWorld
Preceded by...	Halloween (Public album) Burn (Industry Album)
Succeeded by...	Two Steps From Heaven (Industry album) Classics Volume One (Public Album)
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Code	XTS042

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SkyWorld, released on 27 October 2012, was the fourth public album released by Two Steps From Hell and the twentieth overall. The version released to the general public featured 21 completely new tracks, along with "Dark Ages" from the album Nemesis.

However, an extended version was released on Extreme Music with eight additional tracks, one of which was a remixed version of "Freedom Fighters" from the album Legend (the "Freedom Fighters" remix is no longer available on Extreme Music but the rest of the bonus tracks are). Three of these tracks would go on to be released on both Classics albums. An additional four tracks would later be remixed and re-released on the industry album Burn.

Track List

#	Title	Composer	From	Later Released On	Vocalist Featured
1	All is Hell That Ends Well	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Burn (remixed version)	Unknown (possibly Molly Conole)
2	Titan Dream	Nick Phoenix	N/A	Legacy	Nick Phoenix, C.C. White & Aya Peard
3	SkyWorld	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Legacy	N/A
4	El Dorado	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Burn (remixed version)	Merethe Soltvedt
5	The End is the Beginning	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	Nick Phoenix
6	All The King's Horses	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	Merethe Soltvedt
7	Realm of Power	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
8	Winterspell	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Legacy/ Burn (remixed version)	Unknown
9	Blackheart	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Legacy	N/A
10	Juggernaut	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
11	Dark Ages	Thomas Bergersen	Nemesis	N/A	Unknown (possibly Thomas Bergersen)
12	Our Last Hope	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	Aya Peard
13	Icarus	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
14	For the Win	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Legacy/ Burn (remixed version)	Merethe Soltvedt
15	Sun & Moon	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	Thomas Bergersen & Carina Istre
16	Big Sky	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
17	Starfleet	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
18	Queen of Crows	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
19	Blizzard	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	Molly Conole
20	Breathe	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	Merethe Soltvedt
21	Back to the Earth	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	Nick Phoenix
22	Ocean Kingdom	Nick Phoenix	N/A	Legacy	Aya Peard

Tracks Only Available on Extreme Music Edition

#	Title	Composer	From	Later Released On	Vocalist Featured
23	Freedom Fighters (Remix)	Thomas Bergersen	Legend	N/A	N/A
24	Identity Crime	Nick Phoenix	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	Beneath the Ice	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	The World is Mind	Nick Phoenix	N/A	Classics Volume One (w/out solo voice)	C.C. White (uncredited)
27	Children From the War	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	Unknown (likely Molly Conole)
28	Requiem for Destruction	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	The Colonel	Thomas Bergersen	N/A	Classics Volume Two	N/A
30	Stormwatch	Nick Phoenix	N/A	Classics Volume One	N/A

Media Usage

• All is Hell that Ends Well and Titan Dream were used in some History Channel commercials.
• All is Hell that Ends Well was used in the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer featured in the Avengers: Age of Ultron DVD's previews.
• Blackheart was used in a PlayStation 4 commercial.
• For the Win was used in a trailer for the movie, Epic, a commercial for the Cartoon Network series, Ben 10: Omniverse, and a CNN commercial. It was also used by Kenichi Ebina in his performances en route to his victory in the reality show, America's Got Talent.
• The Colonel was used in a commercial for the Disney XD show, Lab Rats.
• The Colonel was used in the Forged in Fire episode "The Sword in the Stone" (S7:E16).

Trivia

• This is the first public album to feature mostly new tracks.
• This is the first public album to feature both composers as vocalists.
• This is the first public album to have some tracks be exclusively released on Extreme Music.
• This is the third and last time Merethe Soltvedt and Aya Peard will be featured together on an album.
• Molly Conole would later appear on Cry on Thomas Bergersen's solo album Sun, as well as his single Threnody for Europe.
• This is the second public album to features songs that have English lyrics.
• This is the first public album that features Thomas Bergersen as a vocalist.
• Four of the tracks from this album (All is Hell That Ends Well, Winterspell, El Dorado and For the Win) would later be remixed for the industry album Burn.
• This is the first public album where both composers are featured evenly, with 11 songs each on the original album and 15 each on the extended version.
• Not including the extra tracks, All The King's Horses (2:06) is the shortest track featured whereas The End is the Beginning (4:51) is the longest.
  • With the extra tracks, Requiem for Destruction (1:30) is the shortest.
• This album, along with Unleashed, possess the most amount of tracks with vocals, with 14 each.
  • Unleashed, however, credits all its vocalists whereas this album does not.
  • This is not counting the tracks on the extended version, which would make this album take the title alone.
• The version of El Dorado that is available via YouTube Music and Extreme Music is different to the version on other platforms.
• At some point, prior to the album's release, a demo of Thomas's tracks was leaked. This demo also had tracks from other albums on it.
• On Extreme Music, Dark Ages is listed as Dark Ages Remix.

Gallery

Booklet

Digital Booklet

Promotional Art

Behind the Scenes

Two Steps From Hell - Realm Of Power (Behind the Scenes)