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[Duh Schwa Schwamp Blues]

Uh huh...

You need to work on your mixing and the distorted guitar needs a little bit of tweaking on the tone, if you ask me. I mean, really, having the clean guitar completely on the left pan and the distorted guitar completely on the right was just an earache and it made the whole track feel empty. Get that shit more centered and then ad a little bit more. Perhaps some atmospheric effects or something.

Otherwise, I rather enjoyed the song. Good luck to ye.

Shammybaby responds:

Yeah I've just started getting into mixing and it's not as simple as it seems. I appreciate you taking the time to leave me feedback.

['11 Zombie Red Zone]

We have a winner!

I have to say, when the first recognizable rhythmic beat came in, I was stoked. I always wanted that kind of thing going on in some of my songs, but I don't have electronic powers required to do so. Whether or not you did it on purpose, you really captured a Rob Zombie sound here. Funny thing, he just played a show here a couple days ago.

Now the whole song is great and dandy, grimey, industrial coolness until you hear the ending. What the hell were you thinking with such an abrupt and unexpected ending? I do some weird shit myself, so I can understand if it's symbolic or something, but it was so unsatisfying. It's like being totally drunk, having a ton of fun and then your friend comes into the room, making out with your ex girlfriend with his wank out. It's a total buzz kill. If it weren't for that ending, I'd give it a 10/10. Yeah, that's how bad that ending is.

EvilRaccoon responds:

Hey Rahmemhotep. I made a decisision to stop it suddenly for a reason. When rewatching resident evils i realised that the music would just stop dead. No gradual ending or anything. I always slowly fade out, or bring the song to a close. The disrupting ending I felt made things seem unconclusive, somewhat how you'd feel after fighting a hoard of zombies. There's always more to come.

It was a conscious decision. You'll see what I mean here. How the music is broken up by Marco Beltrami.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvZDJK Jxlls

Thanks again! I may do another version for you. :)

[vacuum cleaner has a soul]

What the fuck?

House music that I actually like on NG? Are you European? Haha! No, really, this is mad sick sounding shit. In fact, the main reason I'm writing a review is so I can find it again if I forget the name. The feel of the song makes it sound as if it should be in a Mother game. It's gritty, metallic and soft, it would make a great Robot Day track, if you ask me. It does remind me of machines.

Overall, it's a really good piece and I feel it would take skill to make this. Good job, chap!

[Förlorarnas Elit (Symph.]

Now...

This sounds friggan beast. You did great work on the orchestra synths and like the guy below, it does make the original track sound weak, akin to Dimmu Borgir's new album where they fucked over the guitars and shit with the keyboards and shit (not a fan of that new album, nope). This is sung in Swedish, right? It sounds very well done and everything but, perhaps you should collaborate with them and use the raw tracks and beef 'em up to match your stuff if you ever get the chance.

[Deathless (Instrumental D]

Yeah

The mixing definitely needs work. I mean, I'm wearing a bass amplifying headset and the guitar doesn't pop out as much as it should. Perhaps put a little touch of distortion on the bass and the drums need something done to them too. The synth work, on the other hand, sounds great. I like the riffs and the general feel of the song, it's pretty damn good.

Hit me up when you finish it.

[-Her-]

Nice

8, just because it's not done.

I can see this being a gothic metal song. Hell, if you don't do that with this, I'd happily run off with part of the opening and make it into one. Muahahahaha.

Finish dis shit, mang.

Back-From-Purgatory responds:

Wasn't originally intended to be a gothic metal song... but you never know...

[Tacobell Hugghhhhh]

L;FDMXFB

Holy Jesus, I almost shit myself because I couldn't stop laughing! I seriously had to turn it off after the song started to repeat because it's just way too fucking funny. I only just now stopped laughing and it took me forever to write this review.

[Hans namn är Lennart Grahn]

Well!

Yo dawg dis shit be bangin'. No, for real, I didn't expect to find this when I was just surfing through the portal for metal. Reminds me of Japanese metal and it has a very Japanese feel to it. I'm not saying that the Japanese language sounds like Swedish, no, not in the least, only a total fucking idiot would say that.

Despite really liking it, I thought that there was some strange quality about the way you mixed your vocals. Perhaps they need more bass? I'm not sure.

It'd be chill to collab sometime. (you can ignore the sound of my current entries, I have a new mic)

Schleif responds:

thanks a lot man! haha japanese, eh? can't say i know anything about japanese metal, but that's pretty cool i guess haha. yeah, the mixing isn't exactly flawless.. i'll try to work a bit with the bass in the future. thanks again dude, much appreciated!

[Rg47 ihr fotzen (deutsch rap)]

Geil! Aber...

The quality is pretty bad. Keep tryin'.

[Tara riru]

Good

But not quite fantastic- You need to add a bowed bass section and maybe a quiet counter melody because this shit sounds hollow as a muthafucka. It also sounded a bit too much like a metal song to me, but it struck me that it would be fantastic if you added an electric guitar in that sounds similar to the music in Last Remnant or Super Smash Bros Brawl.

What I know for sure is that it NEEDS more fullness. If it weren't for the fullness issue I'd have given it a 9 out of 10.