goddamn, the shredding on this

Amazing, a little loud though, and you couldn't here the drum much

This is a NGADM Round 1 Review.

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Good:
- Awesome guitar playing.
- Excellent melodic content.
- Great mix!
- Made me move!

I feel like it has become a cop-out to say that your guitar playing is fantastic...but hey, it IS! You are right in saying that this is some of your best playing to date. The melodies here are all-in, relentless, and darn catchy, too! The mix is great, though I will point out (just like everyone else it seems) something about the drums below. I can't seem to find the words to describe how energetic this track is. Just an awesome job!

What to consider:
- No real break of relief at all.
- The drums and bass seem 'deadened' during the solos.

I felt as if after listening to the track for almost 5 minutes, there should have been some from of a break, some silence, something to give the ears a short rest, even just for a moment. Some time to pause and take it in would have been awesome and would have worked wonders! Otherwise, a pretty small nitpick on my part, but it seemed that during your solos, the drums became drowned out. The same could be said about the bass (prior to your edit). Not a huge issue, all the same.

Keep on rockin', dude! :)

Score: 8.9/10

This is an NGADM 2015 review.

Really enjoying the slightly bandpassed intro and composition in this song in general. As others have mentioned, your solos are godlike. There's just about nothing I can fault this song on composition-wise, I enjoyed just about all of it and this isn't even really my kind of music, so kudos on that! You kept a nice level of consistency with repeated parts, and I never found myself becoming too familiar or getting bored.

Because I'm a critical bastard, I'm going to mostly talk about the mix as it's where I think your track's weaknesses lie. The mixing is overall pretty alright, though your percussion is almost definitely a bit low, especially in comparison to your lead which is absolutely screaming. Using a spectrum analyzer I can see that while the lead is playing the mid-highs are quite loud - it's a very sensitive part of the spectrum to human ears. This becomes more of a problem when the lead is playing along with the rest of the guitars in the choruses, and you end up with this layer of saturation/distortion around where the lead sits (1k-6k.) I'm guessing that this is because of the harmonics in the other guitars + how loud/high the lead is. (To clarify, it's most noticeable from 00:55 to 01:23, 01:41 to 02:30, and 03:40 to 04:30.) It makes listening at regular volume a bit difficult for me, whereas the rest of the song (the parts not listed in my previous bracketed statement) are fine despite not being quieter (RMS-wise), which is why I've talked about this issue so much. It's mostly an EQ/level problem, really. You're also rolling your highs off to a pretty large extent, though the song doesn't sound any worse for it, actually.

Despite some critical words, I think this song is pretty awesome, especially composition wise. Keep at it, man.

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The Great:
Such a huge sound and excellent spacing, everything has its own place in EQ and in depth (reverb etc). Lead guitar melody was exquisite composed with multiple layers and harmonies, phenominal phrasing (as always) and melodic even when technical.
Areas for Improvement:
Snare was a bit weak, would have liked more punch or maybe for it to cut more (high frequency excitation/distortion) from it.
I wanted the lead guitar to be wider! This would have helped sell the melodies of the lead guitar even more.

Welp. Nailed it again, you monster. Seriously, stahhhhp, no fair for the others. :P
9.5/10