I've tried to hunt this down for years and it's eluded me.
So, in earlier YouTube (back when search actually responded to your keywords, 2000s-2010s), there were a lot of fantasy/sci-fi tracks uploaded by users with low-res images accompanying them. Rarely were the original musicians credited and I'd have to dig through comment sections to find sources.
I've been able to find a lot of these old instrumental songs that I have nostalgia for, such as Stephanie Valentin's
22:22 and Henrik Airaksinen's
Sound of an Angel. There's also the work of Bradfield and Gerald Jay Markoe.
But there is a piece of music completely disimilar to these that I cannot find anywhere. It was around 10 minutes long, and it transitioned beautifully from a desolate/doomed sound to something cosmic, grand, and shimmery.
The person who uploaded the video over a decade ago had pictures corresponding to the themes throughout, starting with dreary apocalypse pictures to galaxies and nebulas. It's precisely what the music sounded like.
Obviously, I can't find this video now no matter how hard I try, and it was a reupload of the man's work. I starkly recall it being a male composer whose name I forgot. Try searching up any music with these elements now on YouTube. It's so saturated that it's impossible to find anything.
I'm hoping there's someone out there who vaguely knows what I'm talking about and can help me in my years-long search.
