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[C23 - Avination II]

What SpaceWhale said about the melody going out of key at one point, I think it sounds weird too but I really like it. It might not be musically correct but it still sounds good, it sounds like you did it intentionally. And I think it adds a layer of flavour over the top of the songs main melody/chord progression. Nice job, sounded great man.

KrisKrosNL responds:

SpaceWhale is right about the melodies; I did screw that up, but intentionally.

[Hysteria]

Pretty good playing.
Now make something original and get it up here,
that's what people want to see ;)

[Shattered Memories]

I love the nice and crunch guitar at around 1:00, got a shit load of bottom end but it fills out the whole tracks floor really nicely. It contrasts with the treble-metal sort tone that comes in about 30 seconds later. I love that snare drum sound as well, sounds really crisp. Keep up the good work!

[Elephant]

This isn't a bad song at all, it's got some great melodies. But Mr Ashes was correct about that pedal. If you wanted to enter this as a metal song, he would need to add a lot more distortion, your bass playing was great though, and the drummer sounded like he had a hard role to fill in that song but he seemed to keep up well. Sounds like a fairly technical song, there's a lot of cool stuff going on, but I wouldn't really say it's a metal song, it's more like prog rock or something, nevertheless, still sounds great, so good work!

[-{Z}- ACommonDayInHeaven]

Nice little song, it has a very full sound to it and a nice chord progression! Also what you said in the description is spot on, when I do electronic stuff I never know what genre to put it in :P

TheZaaL responds:

Thanks man! I was hesitating between trance or ambiant, but yeah, thanks!

[-Haunted woods-]

Sexy song, I can just imagine playing a creepy, but extremely fast paced platformer along to this >:) Good work, sounds marvellous.

[Tornado Apoc- MAC Edition]

Been listening to this more and more lately, can't get over how good the start riff and lead tone is, and the velocity on the kick drum pattern at 2:35 till like 2:51 is awesome, it has such a good pulse to it, I hope you win dude!

Chthonic-Waves responds:

I'm very glad you are satisfied with my tone and riffs. Gives me motivation to keep doing stuff like this. I hope I win also that would be fantastic. There is good competition out there. But I would love the exposure

[Elegancia - Zeal]

Sounds really cool, the song is great, the only thing I would say is that, for the first 30 seconds I found that the way it was mastered was really harsh and hurt my ears, but I got used to it and it sounded clearer after that point, good stuff though :)

Elegancia responds:

Well yeah. This mix is pretty rough, you're right.
But i'm happy that it sounded good after the few seconds :)

Thank you for listening and sorry for the late answer! : /

[Fuck you SOPA/PIPA]

The riff at 1:59 is kick ass,
when the harmony comes in at 0:19 I couldn't believe how awesome that was!
Loving the sound of your kick as well, also epic lead playing, nice one :)

Chthonic-Waves responds:

Thanks for the review. Glad you liked the harmony parts and my lead playing. And yeah I love that riff also.

[Mothership_Embark]

This has a very progressive style to it, I like it a lot, good use of time signatures, having the start in 6/8 -or was it 6/4?- was very effective, has a nice dynamic range as well, good job :)

WizMystery responds:

Probably 6/4 since I organized it in patterns of 6 beats, but no matter. You should be marveling at the 17/16 :P

I actually wound up simply tampering with the pre-maximized volume to get a wider range of dynamics. Turned out to be more effective than I thought it would be.