It’s because everything is 80s in Blinding Lights except the vocals. Now it’s got 80s Power Metal vibes. DragonForce isn’t an 80s band, true, but their early material was intentionally spot on with that genre.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged actually Dragonforce's current material is even more 80's sometimes. Listen to their song Strangers from the Extreme Powermetal album.
Well, The Weeknd sounds like he took inspiration from 1980s synth pop, I hear his songs and I immediately recognize some stuff other synth pop groups used.
@@cartooncottage2024 If Abel's the protagonist, I imagine the training montage involves taking substances at a record-breaking rate and driving exotic cars quickly around corners.
I can’t either and I also did not expect to find you here. But I’m glad to see we share not only the same gaming interest but also music taste. I have been watching you sense I was in middle school and now as adult I still watch your videos. I hope you have a wonderful day and keep being amazing and striving for originality.
@@ccLA08 BRO! I LOVE THAT SONG! That whole collab was dope and the animation was sick! My favorite version of that song is the version from Ceelo Green! The puffy amiyumi version is fantastic too!👍🏻
Strum after technology hit a certain point, we humans, have stopped the history of music. Now we are here to immortalize many genres and time periods’ sounds into the fifth dimension, known as the internet.
@@BananaFace301 thanks for reminding me that I realized that he deleted his second comment so everyone was thinking that I was replying to his comment twice in a row. Therefore, I deleted my second comment to avoid the confusion. (This is my third reply)
judging by this instrumental, idk if the weeknd isolated vocals will be available. i think a lot of isolated tracks for rock and metal songs are available through guitar hero, which is why you can get stuff like this
This actually just makes me realize how good the vocals of through the fire and the flames are lmao. Its a little hard to pay attention to them in the original song for obvious reasons
I saw them live and the singer got angry at how much louder everyone cheered for the guitarists. I can see why he might have felt overlooked by DragonForce's main selling point was always their fast as lightning guitar playing
Herman Li is too good for this earth he is just a dude who shreds on guitar and enjoys memes and seems like a genuinely great guy. But seriously I would love to see him react to this
The soundalike version of the “Blinding Lights” instrumental makes this sound like ZP Theart pulled up to a karaoke bar, found out they didn’t have his song, and decided to just sing it over something that sounded close
The year is 1999. It is the future. Detective Hale Matrix must hunt down the drug runners who kidnapped his wife. The neon city lights fall on the dark, rain swept roads as he drives furiously toward his goal. He will find his love. He will destroy anyone who tries to stop him.
Takes a true maverick to decide not to go with the obvious choice of the TTFaTF backing and Weeknds voice. Not entirely sure I agree with it but that's art
I thought if you played the Power Rangers theme backwards it summoned 5 miniature Satans that would then procede to combine to form Megazord Satan and drag you to hell with their transformable tentacle-dick sword to be molested by demons in Power Rangers costumes for all eternity?
It seems like this would be a part of a montage scene in either an 80's coming of age movie where the kid preps for the big fight against the bully and then gets the girl, or for a late-2000's movie where two bands of completely different styles have to combine forces and this is the song they come up with for the battle of the bands and the win seems to come from left field but really isn't
You probably won’t read this but this mashup helped me through a tough time while I’m here in the army, I run and exercise everyday to this creation and I have you to thank for it. Thank you for keeping me motivated. Hooah
He dies a little inside every time one of these bastardpieces comes together. He probably doesn’t have much time left here. A true sacrifice of the soul. But through the fire and flames we carry on.
Very cool mix. I still love the original from Dragonforce. It has always held a special place in my rock soul. Especially watching the video. Just amazing guitar work.
They all sound like "real songs", it's just up to us to personally interpret any of them as each sounding like that which we have placed somewhere beforw
Im surprised that Blinding Lights wasn't remixed with a song by Kavinsky, Perturbador or like Carpenter Brut. But I guess this is okay. Not not really okay but amazing. Makes me ride a DeLorean with my grand sword to defeat the cybernetic drug lord dragon.
I came here expecting everything but this its simply amazing, is like techno and epic medieval, is far more than just High fantasy in the middle ages and Future Cyberpunk pop THIS IS THE NEON DARK AGES (imagine knights with light sabers and Evil dead prosthetic)
I don't know how, but I would love Blinding Lights, and "Get Lucky" By Daft Punk to get combined. Also Blinding Lights, and Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann. Just to fuck with people.
Never heard this Journey song before.
This is what we would hear ifJourney went on a training montage Journey in preparation for an even grander Journey into a new age of Journey music.
Nah this is definitely Iron Maiden
I was thinking Foreigner or Survivor
Such a fucking spot-on observation.
Somebody always gets it!
this is just from dragonforce's new album
ACAI AAAAAAAAAAAAA hello :3
LMAOOO FUCKING ACAI 💀💀💀
@Brayden Nguyen me too 😂😂😂
Love you buddy, we should chart williams tracks
Brown man sense the talent of channel creating clone her bop potential, and observes said channels rise to greatness.
Btw love your stuff Acai!!!
This could be on the 80s Transformers cartoon soundtrack
Fucking YES
Perfect comment
YOU GOT THE TOUCH!
YES!!!
I doubted until the lyrics came in
This is somehow more 80s than Blinding Lights on its own
It’s because everything is 80s in Blinding Lights except the vocals. Now it’s got 80s Power Metal vibes. DragonForce isn’t an 80s band, true, but their early material was intentionally spot on with that genre.
@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged actually Dragonforce's current material is even more 80's sometimes. Listen to their song Strangers from the Extreme Powermetal album.
@@NoBop2000 Yesss they've literally been so good since they started.
I would hope so cause it sounds like it's from 2015 not the 80s
@@chuckdubzz5049 how?
Why does a 2019 song mixed with a 2005 song sounds like an average 1980s song?
Just something about all the synth
@@kristiandahl1310 and the power metal vocals are pretty much similar to 80’s rock and metal
because the 2019 song sounds like an average 1980s song
we sure live in confusing times
Well, The Weeknd sounds like he took inspiration from 1980s synth pop, I hear his songs and I immediately recognize some stuff other synth pop groups used.
This is where the protagonist goes into a training montage.
Yup, it does sound like that XD
May I direct you to season 8 episode 22 of regular show
aia'm guessing the protagonist is Abel himeself.
@@cartooncottage2024 If Abel's the protagonist, I imagine the training montage involves taking substances at a record-breaking rate and driving exotic cars quickly around corners.
And there will be some chopping of blocks with hands
I think you've made a good song here bud.
That's illegal
🥗🍿🍝🍦🍧🍨 Jesus loves you 🌺 🌻🌼 🌷
nick sanders 🦧🤹🏻🤖ok👳🏽♂️🌈🥝🌮🗿
cpt. obvious is on deck
Bre4akin' the law!
Expected it to be the other way around but I ain’t mad , sounds like a Pokémon movie intro
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Here you go
@@iansaiza8524 God bless you!
@@iansaiza8524 this is what I came here for. So much better.
What op said.
Yea I was kinda hoping it would be
Sounds like an english localization of an anime opening from the 90s.
Yesss 🤣
Big Gundam vibes
Yes!
Power rangers
That's why it slaps
I can't believe how well these 2 mix together
I guess it’s just that mashup magic, like Silvagunner
didn't expect to find you here
I always seem to find Nathaniel in the comments of the least expected videos lol
Love your content!
Nathaniel B
I can’t either and I also did not expect to find you here. But I’m glad to see we share not only the same gaming interest but also music taste. I have been watching you sense I was in middle school and now as adult I still watch your videos. I hope you have a wonderful day and keep being amazing and striving for originality.
This is the kind of song that belongs in a Rocky's montage
Jacob Eagle Bear I came here to say that xD it’s absolutely a Survivor song.
Right everybody has been saying journey but it sounds more like survivor
Sure
Or a Rick and Morty Montage
RICO GOLDSTAR or just any montage
Foreigner is gonna be pissed you released their bootleg track.
😔
This isn't how I remember Guitar Hero...
Nah bro, this was in Synthesizer Hero
Nah this is DJ Hero 3
2020 needs mashup hero. Aka DJ hero 3.
I could actually play this one haha
Beginner difficulty 😂
This is the most 80s sounding non-80s thing I’ve ever heard
give this a listen then: ruclips.net/video/lSLXS0bjSCs/видео.html
@@ccLA08 BRO! I LOVE THAT SONG! That whole collab was dope and the animation was sick! My favorite version of that song is the version from Ceelo Green! The puffy amiyumi version is fantastic too!👍🏻
@@optiTHOMAS absolutely. ive added both to the playlist
@@ccLA08 I can't see your original comment and now I need answers
@@SebastTapia
ccLA08
6 months ago
give this a listen then: ruclips.net/video/lSLXS0bjSCs/видео.html
The Weekforce - Through The Blinding And The Light
*Through the Blinding Light
@@presidentobunga8102 Through the Fire and the Blinding Lights*
Dragond - Blinding Flames
Underrated comment🔥
These are all good!
This was absolutely on the Karate Kid soundtrack
Gotta be.
Honestly
Cobra Kai
if this doesn't somehow end up on the Cobra Kai soundtrack we riot
@@hewh0wearspants I'm down!
*This sounds more like Journey than Journey.*
Shit. Someone made a comment like this a minute before me....
You know they always say it’s all about the Journey (than the destination)
DON'T STOP
BELIEVIN'
Clearly you don't know your 80s bands. This sounds nothing like journey.
@@1Skorpia Journey has range, why tf are you gatekeeping 80s music
*This may be the most 80s song I've ever heard.*
Who would’ve thought all you had to do was mix a song from 2005 and a song from 2019.
Strum after technology hit a certain point, we humans, have stopped the history of music. Now we are here to immortalize many genres and time periods’ sounds into the fifth dimension, known as the internet.
Blinding lights sounds like an 80s song anyway. It reminds me a bit of Eddie Murphy for some reason. Lol
You poor kids ..smh.. look up 80s synthesizer songs. This is a rock sound. Like foreigner.
skorpia g I could see that
The Weeknd and Dragon Force were on my Spotify top 5 artists of the year. I didn’t know I needed this 😢
My mom's reaction to this was "this is some 80s stuff!" And proceeded to dance in the parking lot we're standing in right now. Good job my man!
So embarrassing!
@@gaywizard2000 not as much as your pointless comment. Now that's embarrassing.
@@tvoovm7254 I can never win. For some reason someone will go out of their way to shove me, so Fuck off I guess. Your existence is problematic.
@@tvoovm7254 Not as much as replying to the same comment twice. Adios, mi amigo.
@@BananaFace301 thanks for reminding me that I realized that he deleted his second comment so everyone was thinking that I was replying to his comment twice in a row. Therefore, I deleted my second comment to avoid the confusion.
(This is my third reply)
I thought Take on Me was the only song that works perfectly with Blinding Lights. I was mistaken
There's a take on me version of blinding lights?
@@Foxy-ve1oh Because Blinding Light almost use the same progression, lots have done the parallel in music covers and vids
Manux x oh cool
Just some random guy With internet access search it and also seth everman
Also works pretty well with Down with the Sickness
Can you do the opposite of this now? Lol. I Need to hear Weekend Lyrics over the Dragonforce instrumental.
judging by this instrumental, idk if the weeknd isolated vocals will be available. i think a lot of isolated tracks for rock and metal songs are available through guitar hero, which is why you can get stuff like this
AGREED!!!
That's actually what I was hopping this would be. Lol
First name Last name You can isolate vocals using an equalizer and cutting out the instrumental’s frequency(s)
@@z-blaze or you could search for Instrumental and Acapella but that's the easy part.
Sounds like a song that plays during montage of an anime hero’s training and journey to defeat his long rivaled foe. 10/10 mashup as always
Regular Show if it was an Anime
Eye of the tiger looks like different
It sounds like those old dub openings that were made specifically for the dub.
Through the Blinding Lights
Through the Blinding Flames
Through the Fire and Blinding Lights
Through the Fire and the Light
Through the Blinding and the Lights
Blinding Fire and Flames
When you want to play power metal but your band mates are feeling groovy.
This has absolutely no right to be as good as this actually is.
Are you kidding? This has every right to be this good!
This actually just makes me realize how good the vocals of through the fire and the flames are lmao. Its a little hard to pay attention to them in the original song for obvious reasons
ZP is a crazy singer. Especially considering he's self taught and his normal speaking voice is pretty deep.
@@TerminatorZXY he's self-taught???? holy shit
I saw them live and the singer got angry at how much louder everyone cheered for the guitarists. I can see why he might have felt overlooked by DragonForce's main selling point was always their fast as lightning guitar playing
It's scientifically proven that this channel is incapable of not creating a bop.
A fact that even both political parties agree on
@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd ngl fully had to search that up 😂😂😂.
This is awful tho
@@thefatvegan5008 I'm sorry but now you are the awful one (I'm joking)
@@cameronwilson5323 it's bipartisan lmaooooo
Listening to this is pretty much just like watching Kung Fury.
Oh my god thats so true 😂
Wtf that's actually 100% accurate
Balls.
Knuc---kulzzzzzz
THIs
I clicked on this thinking it was the other way around and I was like, there's no fucking way that's going to work.
ruclips.net/video/3iJhwg81maM/видео.html
Maybe this will prove you wrong
@@iansaiza8524 okay.
lol
@@iansaiza8524 fk lol
@@iansaiza8524 was lowkey expecting a rickroll. Bravo
Herman Li is knowen to react to memes people make out of his music. Someone send this to him!!
yeah man, it makes me groove *his accent
Next time I'm available when he is live streaming ill super chat the link to him. I feel like he's already seen it though.
I thought the very same thing!!
Herman Li is too good for this earth he is just a dude who shreds on guitar and enjoys memes and seems like a genuinely great guy. But seriously I would love to see him react to this
@@SeaBiscuit2342 Dragonforce in general is just made up of a bunch of class acts. They've embraced the memes more than any other band on Earth.
Gonna tell my kids this was what the 80s sounded like.
I mean...it did lol
You're not wrong
You look like you’re 12 years old xD
Or that it was Journey.
It is lol
I envision an entire choreography in angry 80s disco dancing fashion to this.
or the final battle scene of the next Zoolander movie (because we all know there will eventually be one).
If this has a music video, it’s going to have smoke machines and multicoloured lighting and a bunch of people dancing in 60s-era TV alien costumes.
This would play on a Footloose ripoff, in the scene where the protagonist is dancing alone at night
If battle dancing was a thing, this would be a song to do it to.
I imagine driving a Chrysler conquest tsi with a bit too much boost with a big blowoff valve going through Miami
This is what the teenagers of Voltron listened to inside their mechazord.
This is the NFL Halftime show we all wanted
The 80's song that's not even remotely close to the 80's.
These synthesizers and drum machines take me back!
Oh boy wait till you hear about Synthwave
Search The Midnight-Gloria. Or Gunship-Fly for Your Life
I don't know why but some of the songs from the Album that TTFATF is from including TTFATF give me 80s vibes sometimes
The soundalike version of the “Blinding Lights” instrumental makes this sound like ZP Theart pulled up to a karaoke bar, found out they didn’t have his song, and decided to just sing it over something that sounded close
I think it's the original instrumental, just pitched down to fit with Through The Fire And The Flames
They’re in the same key.
@@maack633 nah its definitely a recreation
@@Champiness Blinding Lights is Db major, Through The Fire And The Flames is Eb major
Blinding Lights is definitely in Eb major as well
"Through the Blinding Lights and Flames"
Hope to hear more The Weeknd mixes, you damned madman.
The year is 1999.
It is the future.
Detective Hale Matrix must hunt down the drug runners who kidnapped his wife.
The neon city lights fall on the dark, rain swept roads as he drives furiously toward his goal.
He will find his love.
He will destroy anyone who tries to stop him.
EXACTLY!
His car? Well, he drives a red Porsche 911.
The year is 2024
I cant hold my pee much longer
@@celebalert5616 relatable
Thanks for the writing prompt
Takes a true maverick to decide not to go with the obvious choice of the TTFaTF backing and Weeknds voice. Not entirely sure I agree with it but that's art
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You're welcome
@@iansaiza8524 Holy LMAO thats amazing
I'm on a completely different side on the spectrum. This is the only way I can tolerate Dragonforce.
@@alesin1992 cringe opinion
Completely unexpected
This happens when you play the Power Rangers theme song backwards
I thought if you played the Power Rangers theme backwards it summoned 5 miniature Satans that would then procede to combine to form Megazord Satan and drag you to hell with their transformable tentacle-dick sword to be molested by demons in Power Rangers costumes for all eternity?
@@CheeseyBreezey Seems plausible
Legit though, there's a part of me that's now furious this jam didn't exist when Zeo was around. This would've been the perfect f*cking PR Zeo Intro.
@@CheeseyBreezey sir, this is a Wendy’s
@@TheFallofTheEleventh all the better! Let the children watch.
When are we gonna hear “blinding lights but it’s through the fire and flames”?
I want it
Isn’t that this video
OnlyOneAntidote opposite
Degenerick look at the title
OnlyOneAntidote yeah and i wrote this a few days after it came out. They mustve flipped it.
This actually sounds like something I'd party to
This feels likes a song for a new Pokémon movie
This comment is underrated
Aw man that would such a good Pokemon Movie. It'd prob be super edgy too lol
*"One Day, One Will Rise From Our Ranks And Use The Power Of The Matrix To Light Our Darkest Hour. Until That Day, Til' All Are One."*
_Optimus Prime_
Til all are one
Hoo rah!
Kung Fury
TRUE SURVIVOR
It does fit. Doesn't it?
This is a straight-up banger. Like, memes aside and all, this is genuinely a wonderful combination. I can def vibe to this~
Makes me wanna ride a light bike (is that what they're called? The motorcycles from Tron) through the Grand Canyon at dusk.
Ohmygod that would totally work with this. Also, greetings, program! :D
That’d make a sweet album cover
Lightcycles
It makes me want to ride a light cycle into battle against a dragon...
It seems like this would be a part of a montage scene in either an 80's coming of age movie where the kid preps for the big fight against the bully and then gets the girl, or for a late-2000's movie where two bands of completely different styles have to combine forces and this is the song they come up with for the battle of the bands and the win seems to come from left field but really isn't
That chorus just hits just right in this mashup, my god.
This is the quality content I've come to hate that I love
The first few seconds triggered my flight or fight response.
This is probably the slowest dragonforce has ever played 😂
Put it on 1.25 speed
@@Pokefan3332 True
They were tired
@@Pokefan33321.5x is the original pace
this is one of the best mashups i've ever heard, literally some neil cicierega level stuff
Ah yes, Through the Blinding Flames, my favorite song from The WeekForce
My friend ,I just shat myself laughing at your comment.. Thank you
theweekforce when the strong force walks in
or Through the Fire Lights and Blinding Flames by The Dragon End
*The Weekfrce (gotta have that missing letter ! 😅)
If GoT was shot in the 80's, this would be the opening.
I really, really wish they would make that
ruclips.net/video/2fPgIIB67bw/видео.html Something like this?
@@jadedj5385 exactly what I thought
@@jadedj5385 uP
Which GoT? Games of Throne or Ghost of Tsushima?
Can we get the reverse?
PLEASE
DEW IT
Ooooooooooooo I'm blinded by the *whammy squeal*
I prefer the desrever version
It sounds All Star by Smash Mout
This song gives me the same feeling of meeting Tony Hawk in public. Familiar but /obviously/ not the real thing.
That rockerboy synth got me living in night city.
This song needs to hit spotifiy, such a masterpiece
What you want your D&D party to be: Through the Fire and the Flames
What your D&D party is:
oh, I see you watch the exact same movies I do JAJAJA
My D&D party sounds pretty banger ngl
@@vexingregiment2770 true
Funk metal has really reached new heights!
I broke out my 80s exercise outfits and got my sweat on to this. Ive never step kicked so high lol
You probably won’t read this but this mashup helped me through a tough time while I’m here in the army, I run and exercise everyday to this creation and I have you to thank for it. Thank you for keeping me motivated. Hooah
Fucking boot
+
@@austinlazar4853 ❤️
@@Jmack7861 did my 3 and got out ;)
@@Jmack7861 he's a boot? What size?
As i sang this word for word a silent single tear dropped when it ended. Pure masterpiece.
Through the Blinding lights and flames by The Journey.
This sounds like a song in a 80s action movie
Korn - "Freak on a Leash" but it's Elton John - "Crocodile Rock"
Now you're talking
Freak on a rock
Crocodile on a Leash
Well I mean, there *is* a mashup of Crocodile Rock with SOAD’s Chop Suey called “Crocodile Chop”....
I’ve always been told to find something that scares you but excites you.... this comment is now it.
This was in an 80s cartoon and you cant change my mind.
Thank you for attending my TedTalk
Thank you for speaking to us
Wait, this is actually really good, wtf, well done my man
I would love to take a peek at what's going on inside your mind when you come up with these.
I imagine its part fever dream and part savant.
He dies a little inside every time one of these bastardpieces comes together. He probably doesn’t have much time left here. A true sacrifice of the soul. But through the fire and flames we carry on.
Locked out of heaven music + run to the hills vocals?
all we can do is try it...
Always wanted to see if 'Running Up The Hills' worked
when you got a rave to go to at 8:00 and slay a dragon at 9:00
Absolutely.
Wait theres no 8:00 or 9:00
adoboFosho joking?
He means 8 o clock and 9 o clock
You listen to the Weeknd at raves?
Very cool mix. I still love the original from Dragonforce. It has always held a special place in my rock soul. Especially watching the video. Just amazing guitar work.
This is insane, how well it works together. damn dude.
Ah yes, the Blinding Lights of Fires and Flames, my favorite Shakespearean sonnet.
I wasn't aware you could make Dragonforce vaporwave, and yet here we are
This feels like my left and right sides of my brain colliding.
This is amazing. ❤
Sounds like one of those old timey Phill Collins joints. Gives me Childhood nostalgia vibes. 👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾
Mate, you are a genius. This is so good
Huge fan of this goldmine of a channel, my favorite song is Hold my liquor by Kanye West if you can work your magic on that song I can die a happy man
Ice Cube and The Spice Girls: Sulfur Vaseline please!!
Sulfur is Slipknot
Spice Cube?
Spice Girls doing Sulfur? Lmao
@@mikeprice25 *Spice Cube*
mind BLOWN
Did you got here from Bill McClintock?
I don't recall giving this permission to slap as hard as it does.
This is one of the best ones you've made. sounds like a real song. not just a mashup.
They all sound like "real songs", it's just up to us to personally interpret any of them as each sounding like that which we have placed somewhere beforw
thats actually good asf??? like seriously you're amazing, u made they sound amazing together
Watch this end up in some synthwave compilation
This is the 80s training montage for where the 80s training montage wants to become the ultimate 80s training montage.
Made me do a double take when i saw the notification. You win again William
Two of my favorite artists, completely different genres, but together make something AMAZINGGGG!!! Such a bop, really good mix, thank you for this!
how can this only be over a million views?
these mashups always work so much better than i'm expecting them to
Im surprised that Blinding Lights wasn't remixed with a song by Kavinsky, Perturbador or like Carpenter Brut. But I guess this is okay. Not not really okay but amazing. Makes me ride a DeLorean with my grand sword to defeat the cybernetic drug lord dragon.
One of the few mash ups that actually gave me goose. bumps. Amazing fucking song bro!
This is one of the best mashups ever created. Amazing work, William!
This is so beautiful 😍😍😭😭😂😂
I came here expecting everything but this
its simply amazing, is like techno and epic medieval, is far more than just High fantasy in the middle ages and Future Cyberpunk pop
THIS
IS
THE NEON DARK AGES
(imagine knights with light sabers and Evil dead prosthetic)
Like Nimona?
I never thought this would be it, but here it is. I'm gonna go and be alone with this.
I don't know how, but I would love Blinding Lights, and "Get Lucky" By Daft Punk to get combined.
Also Blinding Lights, and Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann. Just to fuck with people.
You should check out get lucky mashed up with byob by system of a down...quite the experience
blinded by the blinding lights
Wouldn’t it make more sense to mash up Get Lucky with... I don’t know... one of the Abel songs Daft Punk actually worked on to begin with?
This is actually decent? I thought it was gonna be horrible.
This right here. This is beautiful. You need an award for this.