Very nice track. What impresses me most is that you moved away from your traditional baselines and chirpy melodies. The instrumentation is practically flawless. The buildup to that central drums section is well done. That brass sounds like Hans Zimmer (Inception).
If this is the soundtrack of an alien battle, I don't think the humans win. :)
Thanks alot :D That is so great to hear! yeah i know i have it in me to make other things. when i actually try hard. haha. thanks for the review! :D
You spelt 'my' wrong.
This is an NGADM Round 1 Review.
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Now this is one hell of a track. I don't know how you do it, but you manage to create your own genre of music, and manage to adapt it to any given style or mood. Your tracks are incredibly diverse and this dark, cinematic tune harbours just one of the many styles you seem to effortlessly be able to make.
What I like the most about this would be the production value and the sounds. You've nailed that part. Your brass sounds positively terrifying, your strings sound cinematic and mighty, your synths are all ridiculously good, and the drums are just out of this world ("out of this world" seems to be what you were going for considering your author's comments, I guess). Seriously though, every single sound in there is just fantastic, especially the alien and horror-like sound effects. Your sounds really portray an unsettling, scary mood well...
...and you mix them together perfectly. Words cannot explain how well you've mixed this. You've taken care on making the hits booming, the drums powerful and intense, and all the while giving each tiny detail the amount of clarity and prominence it deserves. I especially like how you've mixed those drums in the second half of the song. Not only do they sound amazing and give a sense of urgency, but they fit so well with the orchestral elements, as if these sounds were made for each other.
Now, I'll have to dock a whole point for the issues that this track has. They're all stylistic issues that in my opinion take away quite a bit from the song. First problem is that you've spent too long building up suspense in my opinion. By the time the track actually kicks in, the listener is already halfway through. And a lot of the suspense-building feels very unnecessary, even if it serves the purpose of creating unease so well. Secondly, there seems to be no leitmotif in the track. No main melody that you occasionally reference throughout the track. For a track as long as this, I feel that it's important to have a clear, definable foreground melody that you occasionally throw in during different sections of the song. That, combined with the over-exaggerated suspense-building, can make it quite easy to lose interest while listening to this. Lastly, the ending effect could've been held a little longer. Right now the ending sounds a bit abrupt.
Long story short, this is incredibly well-made and I'm thoroughly impressed. I have some stylistic gripes with the track, which you may or may not agree with, but otherwise I love this.
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SCORE:
9/10
this is a cool song, it reminds me of the movie captain america, and the part where he goes to rescure his friends and the troop that was captured
i have trauma from rupture - jekko