The dev's knew this track was pure gold and went like "Yeah, it should keep playing in fights." and they had the best idea ever.

Congratulations to Souken for XVI winning Soundtrack of the Year and for sneaking this banger of a leitmotif into the new dungeon.

They sure don't make things like they used to do they? You buy an iphone it's dead in 6 months- the Allag built a fleet that stayed airborne for eons.

5 years later in patch 5.21, we finally got an orchestrion roll for this track

One of my favorite areas in the game. Contrasting with the way the game starts out with such normal, organic maps, it gives this sense of just how far the WOL has travelled. From riding around the forests of Gridania on an overgrown chicken to flying around some ancient, advanced civilization on the back of a dragon.

Azys Lla was such a drastic change in aesthetic from the rest of Heavensward, it felt like such a surprise but it was done so well. Definitely my favourite final area so far

I love how the organ makes it sound like a grand cathedral. You know, a very perverse cathedral to the achievements of Allag.

This song is an absolute freakin' *BANGER* dude...

The organs lend themselves so perfectly for this track, creating a sense of verticality and loftiness. Which connects it to the rest of Heavensward thematically quite nicely. The rest of the instruments work well with the high-tech theme of the area. Damn did I grew to appreciate this zone music!

This is still one of my favorite environments in a video game. Everything is so toxic and alien, yet this was what a human society pulled off thousands of years ago. Hubris is a killer.

just realized there's a leitmotif that appears in this theme, in the Omega fight, in the Shinryu fight, and in The Twinning. Now I'm wondering where else it appears...

I wish you could rescue poor Tiamat from there...

When I saw the green ass sky and then this music -- I knew I was in a place of unspeakable evil. Amazing atmosphere set up

I just got to this place and the first thing that came to mind was "final boss dungeon".

What's scary is that the Allag turned that ship into a museum...so it was an outdated ship to the Allag...could you imagine what their then modern warships can do in combat? Could you imagine how powerless the Garlean Dreadnought would be compared to an Allag warship? The Allag were mighty scary advanced.....

I heard this years ago, and just came across it again. And 3:12 still brings chills down my spine. That piano is just beautiful.

Final Fantasy XIII is unironically my favorite FF game (yes, I'm serious), and when I saw the Pulsework soldiers in this area I LOST IT. "Oh my GOD! Square actually acknowledged FFXIII's existence!!!"

Best area in the game. 10 outta fucking 10.

Praise the Restoration for giving us this orchestration roll after so long!

I love the piano arrangement near the end of the track. Kind of like a 'silver lining' feeling

This song really meant a lot to Soken. It's even used in Stormblood!

Best music in Heavensward, IMO.

Azys lla is the most badass zone in ffxiv. The lore, the ruins, the warring triad statues standing proud after thousands of years. It’s extremely awe-striking. Makes you imagine how mighty the allagans were back in their times

A theme so good it keeps on playing during fights

I really love the piano parts at the end of the song.

One of the most underrated themes in FF14. Mass Effect vibes mixed with that funky Soken flavor sprinkled with that traditional FF levity at the end.

Allagan tech has always fascinated me. The juxtaposition of current Eorzean levels and them in terms of advancement. Feels like Garlemald's the leader in getting anywhere close; and still comparing, they aren't even close thousands of years later.

I'm incredibly excited to see what the devs do with the Allagans, this whole area screams of the "apocalyptic future" from Chrono Trigger. I can see Square actually creating a plot akin to the "Black Omen" from CT where an Allagan Starship returns to threaten Eorzea

the organ in this song is so SO good. its ominous and daunting and it sounds like a vox

3:12 - Gives me goosebumps every time, it's so good!!!

One of the best pieces of music in FFXIV, period.

3:12 Ugh. Almost 2 years after hearing it for the first time, and it still chokes me up. Heavensward might not be Shadowbringers, but it will still be a jewel forever.

Couldn't get this out of my head when I finished 3.0 yesterday

I´m in this zone at the moment!! it was breathtaking, love the music theme and the encounter with Tiamat was amazing!!!!

This song definitely has a bit of an air of finality to it. I was saddened by the events that occurred before arriving in Azys Lla (especially by what happened after the Vault ;.;), but hearing this music motivated me to press on despite everything that had happened. In honor of those we had lost in our journey, and also for those who could still be saved.

I love how the Omega theme added the bit at 0:52.

When you bust out the Allagan organ and rock out with your dragon buddies.

Best new area theme, by far. I can't help but get caught up in it!

FFXVI dlc be like

This music gives me the same chills that hearing Within the Giant from FFIV gave me. It's just so epic like damn you know shit's about to go down!

I want this on the orchestrion already, it's been 3 years!

Fell in love with this track the first time I heard it. It sounds so final. And then I heard the callback to this song in eScape, it's perfect.

Seeing all Azys Lla and the whole Allagan lore it makes me think that it was a good thing the Allagans destroyed themselves. Think about it...looking at the recent events of the Heavensward finale(SPOILERS) The archbishop with his inmense might, easily destroyed Lahabrea a top tier Ascian. The Allagans were like an almost omnipotent beings considering the technology and science they employed, these beings imprisioned and controled beings who are gods themselves, the warring triad in FF6 made Kefka a nigh omnipotent god of magic and this version of the Warring Triad apparently is super strong as well considering Urianger said that if they were to awoken the world would easily be destroyed YET the Allagans imprisioned these beings and used their energy like if they were nothing. Makes me think that the whole covenant with Cloud of Darkness was just a ruse set by the Allagans to control the Cloud and let the other voidsents into our world to experiment wih them. Also if I am not mistaken Xande said he acquired the power of darkness thanks to Cloud of Darkness, meaning the allagans might have employed that great power as well. So far the Eikons have been the only beings described as "Strongly opposing the Allagan empire" yet the succumbed to them.

This was the heaviest part of Heavensward for me... of course after all that happened right after we return to Ishgard, my heart was like a damn rock inside my chest. Then entering Azys Lla the way we enter and then seeing all the cruelty the Allagans did there and it all maximized by the fact that everything is locked in there for 5 thousand years, the theme song just made me want to puke the whole time I spent there doing the quests. This is not bad thing, though, I mean, they did a great job in extracting reactions from me and most of the people I know felt the same about it.

The wonder of this technological miracle is tempered by the still fresh memories of Haurchefant's death. The music captured it perfectly, and the fact that it keeps playing through the trash battles adds to the gravity of what is just over the horizon. Somewhat simplistic, and somewhat redundant before the piano piece, yet it beautifully serenades the final ballads of the story leading up to 3.0's climax.

I love this song! I'm enjoying FFXIV so much, I haven't had this much fun gaming in a very long time.

Honestly still my fave last zone to this day.

the last part of the song is so gorgeous

I would kill for this to be in Theatrhythm.

I just realized why that 2-note organ segment from the last part after 3:13 sounds so familiar. It's kinda like a piece of the sped up Title/"Omen" theme from FFVI. Love the little easter eggs everywhere!!

best heavensward area theme no cap

Really love the FF6 Throwback in the song and for the level

I got here last night, and the music fucking blew me away!

Probably my favorite track. Actually uplifting, soaring, and exciting, unlike most of the other music in the game. Love the piano near the end.

finally got here and i was like bro this is the end we are at the end right here

Easily one of my favorite tracks in XIV.

As much as I have loved Stormblood (and I have overall been enjoying it even more than Heavensward) I sincerely hope we are given a reason to return here one day. There is so much allagan stuff in this game and I genuinely think it would be awesome for it to come into the forefront of the MSQ in the future.

Got to Azys Lla a few days ago for the first time and this song is one of the best songs i have heard ingame up until now and there were some bangers. Techno-organ just hits different.

Something straight out of Mass Effect 1, this song really inspires that feeling of being somewhere exciting and dangerous.

Thank you! I remember hearing this music in one of the live videos before HW came out. I was trying to imagine what they would come up with that this music would even work for. When I first stepped out in the Azys Lla, I was just blown away.

Omg... the music in this zone is incredible!

I'm angry with myself for taking so long to appreciate this track... What a banger 😁

This is one of - if not - the best tracks in this game. I loved waking up to this in this zone. It's one of the times in the game it makes it feel okay to just sit and do nothing and enjoy the music/aesthetic of the scenery. There's just so much going on with this track and it's got so many parts to it. I'm not sure how to describe it.

0:52 That part has been screaming Lufia at me. Sounds very similar to their final dungeon BGM. Amusing, they're both final areas!

Seeing the warring triads looming in the distance while listening to this song was just...such a great feeling the first time i entered this map. "I'm waiting for the day you three returns"

Nice depart from the usual Sound the Themes ... that bit more electro feel fits very well

Holy shit man, I keep comin back to this song... it's sooooooo good.

In the Middle of the map you can see the Warring Triad from FF6 :D

Wonder if they'll ever release an Orchestrion roll for this...

I always forget how good this areas music is until I go back there and I'm always surprises

When I got to this area, it gave off a Star Ocean 4 atmosphere to me. The music and the structures seem Star Ocean like. It is Square Enix after all so I shouldn't be surprised if they meant it that way.

Wish i could place a bouqet of flowers too in memory of our dear friend

I love when you first unlock flying on Midgardsormr here and fly to the centre of the map to do the final piece of the story. Especially when the flying animation (kinda) is in sync with the song's beat.

Spent so little time in this zone, but the OST slaps hard.

The best part is at 3:13!

This has no business going this hard.

Got here today, and if it wasn't so full of mobs wanting to kill me, I'd walk everywhere just to here the epic music

i just arrived here and it gives the feel of it being the final area like the old FF games

Unlocking flight for this area being tied into the MSQ was absolutely brilliant, and I wish they'd done it again for Ultima Thule.

I would literally fight all the damn PvP se wants to throw down my throat for this orchestrion roll ....

This song this god damn song will forever be burned into my soul. So... many... HQ Mog poms for that fishing rod. Cant not picture Thordan jamming out on the organ either.

Am I the only one that gets reminded of Persona 5 from this track? Sounds like a palace theme.

never played ffxiv, but i know this motif as "Toniiiiight, witness then as the end shall begin what was finaallll Their lieeeessss, folding back, further back, ever back to the primaallll"

Absolute fucking banger. Fills me with determination

This theme will forever one of the most badass themes ever. Even Shinryu had bits of it.

Nice

This music has been giving me Lufia vibes. And I love it!

so am I crazy or is the little solo melody at 0:51 being played on a Stylophone?

when you're slowly going insane grinding barreleyes

Epic Aetherfishing BGM.

Any time I need a mood boost

STILL the best looking zone ingame. Incredible stuff, unique buildings and constructs everywhere. Yet desolately empty of content, which is kind of applicable. Glad they did add some main story quests in the zone later on.

I just want to replay the game to reach this place so I can beat some mobs on that epic song! Gives me goosbump everytime I hear it.

My first thought when I came here was... am I in the FF equivalent of Tron Legacy?

Absolute banger. I paid the 40k for the orcheston

It's gettin real!

That moment when you realize that holy shit it's Tiamat! ...And then you realized that Tiamat's model in FF XII is the same one for Chudo-Yudo in this game.

the unexpected synth organ is the best part

When Azys Lla first descended in that cutscene, I knew what it was immediately.

Being a fan of *all* FF themes in the games I've played (from VII and up),I think XIV has lots of goodies,and before this new favorite came,Wanderers' Temple Hard was my first. ^_^ Fully agree the piano part ends this catchy music well.