United We Serve, Divided We Crawl

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Those are some serious neo-Black Sabbath vibes at the beginning.

Not a huge fan of the guitars further on. They need more chug and less highs or maybe just more chug.
I feel like the timing of the guitars was a bit off occasionally.
 
I'm not a fan of death metal but I think this is very tight and well arranged. The guitars sound good to me. The bass drum is thin and poppy but that's how most death metal is mixed it seems.
I can tell that you've put a lot of hard work into this because it's a rather complicated arrangement.
Great job phil
 
Schwarzenyaeger said:
Those are some serious neo-Black Sabbath vibes at the beginning.

Not a huge fan of the guitars further on. They need more chug and less highs or maybe just more chug.
I feel like the timing of the guitars was a bit off occasionally.
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I did go for a Sabbath type bass line on the 2nd song because it was just perfect. The first few tracks are a little more "Death N Roll" style and the rest is your standard Death Metal. Thanks for listening.

jimistone said:
I'm not a fan of death metal but I think this is very tight and well arranged. The guitars sound good to me. The bass drum is thin and poppy but that's how most death metal is mixed it seems.
I can tell that you've put a lot of hard work into this because it's a rather complicated arrangement.
Great job phil
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Actually I did put in a lot of work, thanks for the comment. I'm sure it could be better, but it'll have to do. Compared to my old stuff it's actually pretty good sounding lol
 
I thought the guitars sounded pretty decent. Metal drums are what they are and I'll never "get" them. That's just me. Well performed all around.

My only complaint is the low end is a little out of control. Bass is way too rumbly, even for metal. There is a frequency or two in the low end that really jumps out.
 
This is a good metal song. I don't like much pure "metal", but I do like some and feel that I can appreciate a lot of it. Metal is complicated stuff... I noticed a long time ago that a guy who is a great guitar player or drummer himself is about 50x more likely to be into metal than the simple garbage I always listened to, presumably because such a guy can appreciate the complex rhythms that you find in metal. I mention this because, me not being burdened by musical talent... my first inclination would be to combine that badass riff and beat that kicks in at :43 with the breakdown at 2:30, throw in some lyrics about drinking and fighting, and voila! :)

While I like some of the pieces better than others, they're all at least decent, some are great (:43 is great, and 2:30 would be great if you changed the drums to more of a bang-bang stomping beat) and the song doesn't get boring over five minutes. Nice work.
 
Hey thanks for the comments dudes. I know it's not the greatest or anything, but for a bunch of cheap gear and no patience what so ever I think it came out OK.
 
It's good. Here's a comment for the long-term: the upper mids on the guitars are slightly harsh (harsh isn't the right word; it's more like 'over-prominent in a slightly unpleasant way'), and it's either gotta be cuz you're hyping the 3-4KHz range or because you're operating in digital. I'm guessing it's the former, but either way I'd be looking on the next mix to ameliorate it.

The vocal: bring it out more. I dunno how, cuz I don't operate in mixes with this much cross-challenging going on with frequency parts, but in spite of the fact that the lyrics are pretty much impossible to make out, I'd like the s-o-u-n-d of the the vocal to come out more and be more noticeable. It's not enough to have a croaky demon in the cast. You gotta have a spotlight on the fucker.

You got it in terms of arrangement and performance - nicely done.
 
dobro said:
It's good. Here's a comment for the long-term: the upper mids on the guitars are slightly harsh (harsh isn't the right word; it's more like 'over-prominent in a slightly unpleasant way'), and it's either gotta be cuz you're hyping the 3-4KHz range or because you're operating in digital. I'm guessing it's the former, but either way I'd be looking on the next mix to ameliorate it.

The vocal: bring it out more. I dunno how, cuz I don't operate in mixes with this much cross-challenging going on with frequency parts, but in spite of the fact that the lyrics are pretty much impossible to make out, I'd like the s-o-u-n-d of the the vocal to come out more and be more noticeable. It's not enough to have a croaky demon in the cast. You gotta have a spotlight on the fucker.

You got it in terms of arrangement and performance - nicely done.
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Hey thanks for the comments :thumbs up:
 
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