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[Defeat This Enemy(EoC/ADK)]

Br000tal

Fucking sweet grinding, dude!
The chorus is freakin' catchy... The lyrics in the end are awesome haha
CRUSHED.
Saaaaaweet.
first vote, yo.
5.00 / 5.00 (+ 5.00)

ElfofChaos responds:

Thanks bro, glad you enjoyed this old tune hahaha, go give my other stuff a listen if you'd like :D

[Deliver]

i hate writing titles... i'm not submitting a poem

Epic intro. Period. The riffs: grooving like a fucking freight train. LOL...
The slow and fast parts fit together really nice. This is a real Bad-Man song. I dunno, you have this certain style, every time i hear one of your songs, i know that it's from you. Ballzy. :D
The only thing that disturbed me was the break at 3:50 .. The transition to the quiet part was sort of harsh, you faded down the symbols there. Maybe just let them ring into the quiet part...
I'd love to put some vokills on this, considering we have never actually collabed together, and it's about fucking time. Don't have any recording gear with me here, though... Next chance to record something will probably be in like 1-2 weeks.
ElfofChaos already has dibs anywho.. :(
So maybe on the next song :D
5ed.
lol the guy that gave you a 3 is a freakin' moron.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Hey man.

I know, the break disturbs some people. Its all about preferences I guess. I didn't like the letting it ring out into the break. It sounded kinda awkward, and I wanted a brief moment of silence before the music started.
As for a coolab, yeah man. You and I are WAY overdue.

Thanks for the comment, man. Sweet poetry to my ears!

[FistsOfStone(deathkllr84&bard)]

Oh man...

To the guy below me: F-U-C-K Y-O-U
k.
Sweet vocals dude, could have used some more variety in the scream, it was all more or less in the same pitch so to say :D
Nevertheless, you mastered that way of screaming...
5ed.

TheBardOfBlasphemy responds:

lol. don't stress it CWN... each to their own opinion :D

cheers for the listen man! Yah, variety thing, it's true. It might even be a confidence thing, you know? I'm comfortable in the range I'm singing (screaming) in... it's gutsy, fulfilling and powerful. I should download a few tracks and just mess around... see what happens, eh?

cheers again!

[Progress Can Be Dangerous Th..]

Loved the...

... melodic development of the song. The riffs were awesome, the mix was cool, the vocoder effects really fit... All in all ALMOST perfect. But only almost.
I can't say this enough:
RHYTHM DISTORTED GUITARS:
-Record them twice
-Take one recording, pan it HARD right
-Take the other recording, pan it HARD left.

Presto: Awesome guitar sound. Why oh why did you pan it to the left?
:D

Awesome song, dude!
5ed.

350teric responds:

Oh, thanks man, thanks for the honesty and for the grades, I really enjoy when a fellow musician gives me a kind of review like this. I can not agree more about the comment on the guitar panning, but, I was lazy so I did the second best thing - "Channel delay for stereo simulation"... XD

Thanks again!!

[vocal test]

Um....

... Because NG is filled with zerobombing 9 year olds who only listen to Super Mario techno remixes?
Nice vocals. the mix sounds pretty awesome :D

nihilisticeq responds:

yeah that's probably it, i'm just not used to getting 0 bombed 5 times in a row

and thank you

[:The Fleshwerk:]

Cool.

Nice riffing. one tip: Record your rhythm guitars twice, pan one track hard to the left, and one hard to the right. Keeping the guitars centered lets the whole mix sound to muddy, especially during the solo.

Warhector responds:

Hey, thanks for the comment :)
And thanks for the tip, might be usefull :D
As you hear now i have used your tip. sounds much better. thanks :D
:War:Hector:

[Woods - The Main]

Sweet.

The synth really fit well to the riff. and the riff was awesome. A bit repetitive at times, but fuck it!
The drums sounded a little muffled, and the guitar had that typical scratchy 'line in' sound, if you know what I mean. Run them through some cab impulses or preamp emulators, and they should sound better than fine though. Great playing, nice.
5ed.
4.35 / 5.00 (+ 0.092)

350teric responds:

Thanks for the nice words! About the guitar tone, usually I don't use this effect (I don't know why I used it on this couple of songs) and it's the effect - it is over gained nu-metal distortion that I have on my preamp... so I get what are you trying to say.... Anyway check my new stuff that I will be posting they will sound better!

[Crunchtime]

Garageband! Woooo!

Kudos for recording with Garageband. I started out with it, too. I'd recommend using the software drums and programming your own stuff, instead of using the loops though.
Catchy riffs, but I can't say this enough: For metal guitars, record the rhythms twice, pan one track hard left, the other hard right. Lead guitars in the middle. Try it out man, it will really UP your mix.
5ed!

HorusTheHeretic responds:

Thanks, man. Glad to see a fellow GarageBand user. I'll try the panning next time I have access to my Dad's Mac.

The guitars are already double-tracked, so it should be relatively simple.

Thanks for the review and the five!

[The Hollow Men I&II]

Mmmm....

Sounds pretty decent, as Twilight already said, the guitars were sometimes a little off, but that's nothing that can't be fixed. Just ONE thing about the rhythm guitars: PANNING. Record the rhythm twice and pan one track hard left, the other hard right. This will do wonders to your sound. The drums sounded nice, the kick could use a little more beef...
The intro was pretty cool, the leads were cool. Good going.
5ed.

Pure-Metal-UTA responds:

Thanks alot!
You're right, the off-time can be fixed, but I'll hold off until I get even better equipment than I have.
About the panning, I never knew that it would go well like that.
The kick needs more beef... I'll find a way to get that.
Thanks for the review!
\m/

[[Forever Mine] vocals]

Cool.

Your grinds/screams are pure metalness. They are uber awesome. Reminds me of Lamb of God a lot. I want to be able to scream like that too.. :(
The talking in the beginning really fit the song, i sort of expected some sort of talking when i heard the original, weird.
The cleans at 1:19 were a bit off pitch, especially 'forever more'. But meh. The dual cleans were really cool, has a really unique sound to it. The melodies were soothing, kept the song together.
The lyrics were nice... Fresh in love? :D

TwilightNecrosis responds:

How'd you guess? =p
Yeah, those choruses are hard. Three-part harmonies are a BITCH; I could never get the middle one to sound right. I even tried to use an auto-tuner, and I still couldn't get it to sound right.
It's funny that you should mention LoG... Randy Blythe is one of my main influences.
But you shouldn't want to scream like me; your screams sound awesome, man. Way more emotional (not emo =p) than mine... I can almost *feel* the hate when you scream. That's really cool, and one of the things that makes you really unique as a vocalist.
Thanks so much for the awesome review, man. I really appreciate it.
Metal! \m/