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It's only been 2 months, but really it felt like an eternity! I'm FINALLY BACK. And hopefully this time for good. I've quit the job, and now i'm returning home. Time to take things back on my terms and let no one else dictate otherwise!

Which brings me to my next point!

Symphony of Specters has launched today! It's a freelance business where a small team (all NG members) and I go off to conquer the 6 servers of the internet. We've gotten some pretty cool jobs and I have high hopes that this will in turn provide all of us a means of doing what we love on our own terms.

As promised, all my songs are back up, and new songs will be uploaded as time permits! I look forward to sharing with everybody once again!

As by request, the other NG members of the team are as follows.

DarKsidE555
pgegen
SinJim
Rig
RenoakRhythm

Our web master has an NG profile but I forget it now, I think he only made an account to insult my mother via pm. I'm certain he uploaded his own music. It's on the tip of my tongue it's killing me i'll update this when I remember or get the info from him.

Updated: 10/27/09 11:43 PM Log in to comment! | Share this!

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14 Comments

Oct. 26, 2009 | 9:02 PM Mich says:

Glad to have you back! May I ask though, how'd you manage to get all your songs of NG and now have them all back? Same thing as you did when you Johnshored the AF? ^^

Oct. 27, 2009 | 11:48 PM MaestroRage responds:

black magic and rape. Not always in that order. If you really want to know hit me up and i'll tell you.

Oct. 26, 2009 | 9:25 PM 0CRS0 says:

Awesome to see you back always loved your music and the Symphony of Specters site looks really cool

Oct. 27, 2009 | 11:48 PM MaestroRage responds:

thanks! Sites going to go through some minor changes in a bit but I think we've found our final resting point for it.

Oct. 26, 2009 | 10:11 PM SUBZEROCHOAS961 says:

ur fucking back!!!!!!!!! i missed u and ur music soo fucking much i was hoping so much u would quite i love u man its been way too long i love ur musice!!!!!!!!:)

Oct. 27, 2009 | 11:47 PM MaestroRage responds:

thanks for the warm welcome! I seriously appreciate it. I hope I never have to go through with that again. I know this will work out, if we work hard we can make it so we will, and share our stuff along the way.

Oct. 27, 2009 | 4:15 PM WarpZone says:

Welcome back, man! :D

Here I was starting to think you'd ditched us for Symphony of Specters! I'm glad to find out it's the other way around. What was it, some kinda funky clause in the job contract? "No music on Newgrounds, not even old stuff?"

Anyway, it's great to have you back. :) (And your archive, too!)

Those of you moving up from free Flash games to commercial Indie game development, do your part for this guy! He's sure getting my licensing fee! Symphony of Specters got to get paid!

Everyone else, rejoice! The Audio Portal has great classical music again! :D

(Any chance we can get links to the user pages of the other Symphony of Specters members?)

Oct. 27, 2009 | 11:46 PM MaestroRage responds:

yeah the terms was simple, if I wanted to make any kind of meaningful income I had to keep everything locked away. Frankly it irked me to no end. I didn't want to lock away my archive. I mean hell I wasn't even selling half of the stuff on my audio page.

Besides it was no fun being a cog in the machine. I very much prefer to talking with developers and animators and deciding things between us rather then put on the suit and mask and never forget my brief case.

Thanks for supporting us, it's going to be a tough ride but we'll hang in there. I have strong hopes for the future.

Oct. 28, 2009 | 1:19 AM btriangle says:

Yo Maestro, I was looking at some videos on Assassins Creed 2, and i found this song that sounded EXACTLY like your song Lords of Legend. Its even in the same key.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/as sassinscreed2/video/6233323/assassins -creed-ii-developer-diary-4

You can barely hear it so turn it up. Play it from 2:30.

Im not saying this guy stole your song, just saying its quite similar.

Oct. 29, 2009 | 2:32 AM SlashFirestorm says:

You have no idea how happy this makes me. Once again I can spend hours drifting through your submission list and imagine suitably epic stories to go with every track.

Oct. 29, 2009 | 3:37 AM ColdReaver says:

That's great man! so glad your back, your one of NG's best musicians in my opinion, I'm glad your here to stay so I can enjoy more of your music

Oct. 31, 2009 | 2:46 AM VictorDavion says:

YAY! YOU'RE BACK! was sad when i stopped by to see what you had added in the last months (weeks?) since i last checked, just to find all your stuff was down =( but that's all in the past now! looking forward to more awesome stuff!

Nov. 1, 2009 | 1:50 PM sorohanro says:

It's good to have you back :)

Nov. 4, 2009 | 8:55 AM The-Great-One says:

Great to have ya back Maestro!

Nov. 8, 2009 | 8:39 PM Deflektor says:

Welcome back, dude !

I know it will sounds kinda impolite to ask such a question, but i couldn't help but notice that everytime i pm'd you (like when i asked about symphony of specters and how to join), you would never answer.

Did i do anything wrong to you ?

Nov. 8, 2009 | 9:50 PM MaestroRage responds:

no mate... you're aces in my book. Did I really not answer any of them? That's incredibly rude of me, I do apologize. If I can find those pm's now i'll give them an answer if you still care.

Nov. 9, 2009 | 5:15 PM Deflektor says:

Well, that was nothing urgent or important, except when i asked about the possibility of entering Symphony of Specters. Also, i can understand you missed my messages. I guess you are usually busy, and i know too well how it is.

Nov. 12, 2009 | 3:17 PM Bahamut0ne says:

I never thought you'd be back this soon! Welcome back to NG, Maestro! Can't wait to see new songs!

Nov. 28, 2009 | 3:33 PM MysterysGames says:

Wow, great news, who would have thought it would be so soon? :D

Hehe, have you been missing all your fans here? ;)

Good luck for everything you're planning to do :) And never leave us again!