Score: 8
"Suggestions?"
date: December 18, 2007
thats a pretty sick heavy riff, nice metal sound, like the pinch harmonics. If your tone had more gain and compression (if you got a pedal) they could squeal like a pig. Does remind me a little of Slayer.
I'm not sure of your equipment but you could probably squeeze a little bit better of a production sound-although its alright for an intro. I'd put some reverb on the guitar in the intro with the less heavy guitars to add some depth-then decrease the level of reverb once you get into the main sequence, and add a more heavier tone. If you got an actual bass or some synthesized bass on your computer(again not sure of your setup) you could play a heavy power chord riff with EQed mids on the guitar and leave room for a booming bass-making a super heavy sound.
well, I'm not super creative but it does sound like this riff is going to turn into something fast paced with a rocking blast beat, so in the intro you could gradually make the hi hats louder, spice up the rhythm a bit, and add a snare hit every 3 bars or so raising intensity to smoothly transition into a heavy riff. Again just jossling around some ideas, but by reading your description you want something badass sounding right :P? So I would keep a similar riff to the one you used in the intro on the lead guitars, with the rhythm gutiar playing a fast power chord riff backed by a fast blast beat.
good luck man, you're off too quite a good start.
