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A Dark Moon

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This was written and recorded in about 48 hours for the Newgrounds Audio Deathmatch.


Featuring guitar solo at the end from my dad!


Lyrics


The moon is rising

The night is young


I know what haunts you

I know how it feels

It's always darkest just before the dawn

So push on


It's the night of the dark moon

The dark night of the soul

Will you run through the gauntlet?

Will you answer the call?


Every shadow is a warning

And every whisper is a scream

You'll never make it to the morning

If you can't wake from this dream


The path well-trodden is gone

It rotted away

It's time to build a new one

But you gotta have faith


I know what haunts you

I know how it feels

It's always darkest just before the dawn

So push on

The game was rigged from the beginning

So let's break some rules

You can let the wolf inside out tonight


It's the night of the dark moon

The dark night of the soul

Will you run through the gauntlet?

Will you answer the call?


Every shadow is a warning

And every whisper is a scream

You'll never make it to the morning

If you can't wake from this dream

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It's like nothing I've ever heard from you, and yet it very much is your gig! Solid instrumentation, great structure, and driving rhythm section.

Vocal FX are great and I don't have a problem with the volume for the most part. Occasionally they're running rough shod over everything, but that's primarily on the prechorus. I would recommend more compression on the master or simply to mix in 32 bit floating point (with dithering) and turn things up until you feel that A, the levels are all still balanced, and B, there's just a little peaking on the limiter. Just a little. Export and see how you like it. The 32 floating will keep it from truly clipping, and you'll get a pretty dynamic mix (seems to be your goal here!) that is competitively loud.

The result is otherwise very balanced. I find it hard to pay attention to the lyrics because my attention span is that of a goldfish, but thanks to you providing them, I can tell you that they're great in terms of theme and flow. And as I listened, your performance is great. Every line rolls off the tongue.

Ps, props to your dad! I wish I could do music with my parents!

8.6/10

Mischa-head responds:

Thank you for the feedback!

Yoo it's good! Are those your vocals?

Mischa-head responds:

Thank you! Yep that's me singing :)

Impressive.

Awesome track! Bass guitar part is very cool!
For my taste seems that chorus part should be louder. And propably overall vocals are to loud.

Mischa-head responds:

Thanks for listening and commenting!

absolutely smashin! love dat guitar solo had me smiling like a crackhead da hole time. ill be rootin 4 ya in da audio deathmatch

Mischa-head responds:

Awesome. Thanks for listening!

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Score
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Uploaded
Aug 20, 2024
8:50 AM EDT
Genre
General Rock
File Info
Song
8.3 MB
3 min 38 sec

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