Destiny: Rise of Iron - Eyes Up | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

AYYYYY IT'S MY REQUEST Eyes Up is one of my favorite tracks in the series. I guess I should provide some context because you were wondering what was going on. This is the final boss theme of Destiny 1's Wrath of the Machine raid: Aksis, Archon Prime-a disgraced Fallen Archon Priest harnessing the power of SIVA. SIVA was a self-replicating nanotechnology created during humanity's Golden Age with the intention to be used to create colonies, ships, basically anything humanity would ever need. But its designers forgoed safety measures like a killswitch due to their eagerness and confidence in its capabilities. After the Collapse, SIVA remained sealed within its Replication Chamber until it was discovered by the Iron Lords, some of the first Lightbearers risen by the Traveler, and reactivated by the AI Warmind Rasputin in order to purge the intruders. Only Lord Saladin survived. Decades later, the Fallen Devil Splicers, led by Aksis, would discover SIVA, and Aksis used it to become more machine than Fallen, effectively ascending to godhood in the eyes of the Fallen. Six Guardians were tasked with infiltrating the Perfection Complex deep within the Cosmodrome, putting an end to the Archon Prime and the threat of SIVA. Eyes Up is a callback to the beginning of the game, as the first words ever spoken to your Guardian are just that: "Eyes up, Guardian." It's very much a book-ending moment, as Rise of Iron was the last DLC and Aksis being the raid boss could be seen as the "final boss" of Destiny 1. I agree that it is very much an "in the moment track", with the absolutely BOMBASTIC brass spelling your victory over Aksis and the Splicers, and of course the infamous motif at 2:19, signalling the wipe mechanic.

What Jesse hears: Cool game soundtrack What Destiny players hear: "COME ON, WE STILL CAN WIN THIS"

Micheal Salvatori has been involved in like all of Destiny and Destiny 2s OST, hes the GOAT

Siva Density Critical!!!!

WAIT WHO’S EMPOWERED MID?!?!?

To give you some context around all this, Destiny is a first person shooter MMO set in the far future. You play as a Guardian - one of many immortal player characters that was raised from the dead by the enigmatic spherical machine that made its way to Earth. You're tasked with protecting the last city of humanity from multiple alien threats by travelling around the solar system and blowing up as much stuff as possible. This particular expansion to the first Destiny dealt with the Iron Lords - an allied faction who were among the earliest to start defending the survivors of the Collapse (the event where humanity was nearly wiped out). This expansion also introduces SIVA, a self-replicating nanotech that was co-opted by your enemies. If I remember right, this track plays during the final boss fight in this expansion's raid, and the image you're seeing there is of that boss

As others have mentioned, this is a fondly remembered raid boss theme of often considered the best or second best expansion of the first Destiny because it's one of maybe two or three that really engaged with the lore and characters and had compelling stakes to the plot. 11:21 The title, "Eyes Up" is a callback to the beginning of Destiny as it is part of the first words heard by every player as soon as they begin the game when they are resurrected for the first time by Ghost but you have to leave immediately. So it's really all of those things you mentioned, you need to raise your eyes in alertness because danger is all around you, and you were just recently dead but your partner has brought you back to life, and also watch out for that abominable technological chimera looming over you.

Destiny and destiny 2 have some of the best video game music contextually but also some of the tracks are bangers like the action versions of most of the d2 raid bosses. Ie the first disciple and oneirophobia. Deep stone lullaby and look within are also good. These are some of the common tracks you see people listening too.

I love destiny’s music! Truly understand. Nothing beats Cabal Stomp or Siege Dancers.

Only like 3 tracks out of every expansion is this intense, a boss track

pleaaase make like a destiny week, there are so many destiny requests open (just like mine from like 2022xd). the game may be in a rough state rn but the music deserves it ❤

Ooh, a classic!

I feel that way with a lot of Destiny 1's soundtrack, good on it's own but better while you're actually playing. I think Destiny 2 does a lot more interesting things musically, though it has had a lot more time and expansions to really branch out.

Ah man never thought I'd hear this theme again. This was actually a really good Raid. I actually do miss doing them quite a bit, but Destiny 2 just put me off the franchise. This and.Crota's themes were my favorite, that heroic refrain when you picked up the Sword... But this track specifically, man I remember the tension because I was always one of the 2 runners calling out a side for the team as we got ready for the DPS phase in center. The music just made it so much more intense.

Oh, hey! More Destiny stuff being covered here is always nice. Anyways, I don't really have any personal experiences with Wrath of the Machine - when Rise of Iron came out I was much younger, and didn't have spare time, a spare copy of the game disk for Destiny 1, or general social confidence with which to actually find a group to do the raid with. So instead of reminiscing on that, I'd like to touch on a weird legacy of Wrath of the Machine, and something that has made it unlikely to be remastered for Destiny 2 - its raid exotic, Outbreak Prime. Long story short, Outbreak Prime was originally the exotic for Wrath of the Machine, but during one of the three seasonal periods after the Forsaken expansion for Destiny 2 it was reintroduced as the Outbreak Perfected via a secret quest, making it the first (and, unfortunately thanks to the stupid decision that was content sunsetting, not the last) raid exotic to be decoupled from its original source. As far as I'm aware, every other raid from Destiny 1 has since been ported into Destiny 2, along with their corresponding exotic weapons - but Wrath remains stuck in D1, likely because remaking it would give Bungie the dilemma of either locking the existing Outbreak Perfected behind a raid when it's been available much less stringently for (I think) longer than Destiny 1's entire run of content, or making an entirely new raid exotic and then having it be the one weird outlier among the reprised content. Also, definitely go check out more of the raid boss themes. Michael Salvatori (who is sadly no longer employed at Bungie as of late last year) and his coworkers in the music department all did wonderful jobs with those.

This is easily one of the top 10 D1 songs, if not top 5.

Love this song! When I was in college music class us students would pick songs every week for the class to analyse and I chose this one! It was embarrassing because my computer turned off like 30 seconds in so I had to restart. 😅

Giving context with Destiny can be a little tough with Destiny given how much lore there is, so to put it as succinctly as possible: Destiny is an MMO FPS in a futuristic setting, taking place after an apocalyptic event. You're pretty much an immortal demigod, and you fight the enemies of humanity. This song plays over the final boss of a raid event, like WoW raids. This final boss in particular is basically an alien who has fused with nanotech and become a machine god, who you see in the picture. The music in Destiny raids generally have phases, much like the raid encounters they're playing against. So when you have big shifts in the song, it's generally transitioning to a different phase (2:18 in your video, for instance). It becomes especially obvious with the boss music, as they'll almost always have a very distinct section that plays during the "Damage" phase where you're actively killing the boss (5:11 in your video for example). It's perhaps less pronounced in this piece, since Eyes Up came out back in 2016, but it's extremely apparent in Destiny 2, particularly from 2019 onwards.

that image you are seeing that's Aksis Archon Prime and he's the final boss in Wrath of The Machine my favorite raid in the first destiny and this theme is by far the best one out of every other theme in the first game

Rise of iron had to be one of my fav expansions. I played destiny years after it came out and after playing d2. What I would give to see a dlc like it again. Iron tomb has to be my fav out of all the ost

Nice hearing some D1 stuff. I really enjoy D2 but never heard most of D1's stuff?

Are you going to react to another Granblue banger released for their new game final boss? The song in question is End of Ragnarok and BlueTunes uploaded the HQ ver from the game.

YOU GOT THIS, DON’T MISS THE- HE BRICKED IT!! HE MISSED THE DUNK! Ohh, and we’re out of platforms, GAHHH RESET!!

Eyes up guardian!

My favorite of D1