Orchestral elements here /do/ sound nice. It's the guitar that's lacking. Doesn't sound like they're double-tracked. Kind of hiding in the mix. I'd probably recommend RealEight in place of whatever you've got here. I can tell 2:05 is not a synth. If you didn't commission someone else to record that or play it yourself, I'm not sure why you would chose to synth your rhythm guitars there. Not a serious detractor but does take off a good half star just for guitar mixing/synth. You could probably have gotten away with slapping an amp on a dry cello with a pick sample midi vst the keep the attack clear.

That said, wonderful writing. I found the only thing this piece really lacked aside from what I've already mentioned is some compression to give it the power I know you want to convey.

With epic metal songs I usually notice the orchestral elements having poorer quality. In this instance, I think the guitar was actually the straggler, which was weird. But aside from that, this sounds really nice, especially the different layers. A few musical phrases here and there seemed bland to me, but just as many were interesting. The only other caveat I noticed was the ending seemed very abrupt, almost as though you were rushing to resolve it and just slapped some finale-like sounds into the last few measures.

Great song

To arms!

Woah! Now this is some awesome stuff man! The solos were amazing, but the orchestra made it all the better! Somehow, it reminds me of "You Say Run" from My Hero Academia.