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Intro really does sound like freshly waking up. Watch for boxy low mids when your piano comes in. I think I hear a hint of overdrive but I don't trust my monitors right now; had to reinstall audio drivers.

I do hear a lot of sub in your mix, cutting off somewhere around 250 hz.

Overall, tasteful use of sidechain and some SFX. I do feel like your leads and pads may just be a bit much for your perc/sfx/bass to sustain. I may back off the sidechain a bit. Your chorus is a bit cluttered.

2:00 section is a nice clean bridge. 2:11 comes in just a bit too hard here. Back off those strings/perc/pads. Maybe even strip it down a little. It already feels just as intense as your chorus, when I can see you were backing off a bit here. I also think I hear a bit of distortion in... Is that ABPL down there? Slap a cab over top if it is and that may help. Something down there is extremely fizzy.

For reference, any time you use an amp sim like, say, Emissary (free), you want to use a cab sim like NadIR (also free) to emulate the traditional setup of amp and microphone rig to capture the amp sound. Some other amps like Dominator/Grind Machine do this for you, but it's not hard to find nice Mesa impulses to load cabs with. Also, don't feel bad -- I've accidentally dropped cabs before an amp and still been frontpaged; quality music transcends its flaws more often than not.

2:45, that perc sample stands out very hard in that particular arrangement. I would recommend shifting away from it or chopping it differently, as it's now gotten a bit stale -- and continues to the more I hear it, especially with brick-wall hard compression.

Outro was gorgeous. I'd like to hear a little more high end on that piano though. Sounds like the frequencies past 5k have been gradually rolled off.

Overall, solid piece, nice melodies -- mix is a bit over-compressed to my ears, and there were some hiccups with your SFX, but you come out the other side pretty solid. Nice work!

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

Interesting, spacious piece. I'm having a bit of a time judging due to hardware issues on my end.

Mix is a bit reverb heavy for my tastes. That wet has a messy tail on it. Tone it down a bit.

2:21, that hi-hat splashing could probably do with being shut a bit tighter.

Compositionally, I enjoy your lead writing. 3:18 chugging section was a bit abrupt for my taste, and I would like to hear a bit more of your leads. Mix wise, they were occasionally a bit washed out.

Your drums, with the exception of the toms, sound pretty flat. Kick is a bit flabby -- tuip-tuip-y. Snare also leaves room for improvement. I want to hear more of that top head ringing. Never be afraid to apply tape saturation/EQ/etc. to fatten up a snare. A nice 80's-ish snare sample might have even done the job if you blended it with the current sample.

Panning was pretty natural to my ears.

Cymbals were hiding in the mix. I'd take them up just a bit.

I also didn't like how disjointed 4:41 sounded from the rest of the track as a whole. It would have made a better bridge than an outro.

Overall, pretty good power metal, a couple hiccups in structure, tension, and release. Melody is fairly catchy, but it's missing that little something to give it some wow to go with the weird. As is, still jammin' though. Nice work!

Thanks for coming out to NGUAC!

350teric responds:

Well, thanks for the review and the high grade of 4. While reading your suggestions and personal preferences in this review I got an impression that I would score something like a 2 or below. Regarding the mix, I'm always aiming for a natural sounding blend, avoiding compression and clipping, which too often is present in 90% of modern music and contributes to the "loudness war" of mixes. (Conventional) Song structure is present, but should be perceived through the prism of progressive metal style. Thanks again! :)

"You voted 5 on this on July 31st, 2017 at 3:10 AM Eastern."

Stumbled upon this again in my GD search engine trawling.

LexRodent responds:

Almost 13 months later, and the joke it's still alive and kicking :D

I'm not sure this is heavy metal just because a distorted drum beat, but I mostly came here because you said this was your most viewed song. :o

It's interesting, but I'm not sure what's happening. Reminds me of industrial.

Jealous of them chords tho. Also, that atmosphere.

Recall you showing it to us in writer's club a while back. And by a while I probably mean like, forever ago, and possibly not in writer's club. Smooth 808. Could possibly use some overarching melody on occasion so it doesn't feel repetitive. Ofc, that's the nature of the genre, but a girl can dream.

Going to casually download this.

Is this morse code? I don't speak morse code.

soap443 responds:

Yes. Decode it.

I have no idea what's happening. Hurts my ears. A lot, with the screeching. I also have a hard time hearing the percussion over said screeching.

CanCerY responds:

Blabla, make betta noob

Is this one of those how-to submissions? I have no idea what's happening and can't find where this is from with a bing search.

Super repetitive. I'm not really sure what's going on? Also, it's fairly quiet.

PuffballYoshi responds:

This was made in Beepbox. Sorry. Thanks for viewing!

I can't really hear your drums in this. The longer the song goes on, the more they get buried under the leads and other instruments. The solution ofc isn't so much to turn the drums up, although that will help -- but to turn the other stuff down. Also that part at the end is really loud.

Otherwise, I really hope this isn't a midi rip since NG can't host those, and you probably should work on your pieces longer than 30 minutes, but if you can write this in half an hour off the top of your head, I wonder what you could do with a day! :)

MinecraftSS responds:

Sorry about the drum muffling, and no, this isn't a MIDI rip, but thx for listening! :)

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