Haha sounds more like epic Viking music to me! =D
You're right, this isn't hardstyle. And I'm right there with you, I hate hardstyle. It pisses me off when some 10-year-old child goes in and uses all the default FL sounds to make a song in like 5 seconds...and then somehow, that song gets uber super popular. But this song deserves to rise above all of that! It's very unique Gravey, I'll give you that...and you never ever seize to amaze people with great songs. However, there are some things that stick out to me. First is the guitar EQing; I dunno why, but it just doesn't turn me on. It just sounds too flat to me. Maybe that's because I'm a total August Burns Red fanatic and love the bright sound in their guitars (even their deep power C rhythm that plays on most of their songs), but I feel like the guitar coulda come out and been an even BIGGER player. Also, while the synths were cool later on in the song, they didn't seem to have a lot of flare to them either. I dunno if you were trying to make fun of hardstyle, or if you were legitly trying to make a cool sound at this point in time; either way, it didn't come to the forefront enough IMO as it should have. The other thing I wasn't too turned onto was the pausing, stuttering transitional effect that you used twice in the song, at about 1:10ish and at 1:24ish; I think a cool panning effect would have kept the element of the song that you wanted without causing too much abruptness in the transition to the next part. Now as for everything else, it really is quite good! The structure is awesome, the drumbeat properly puts hardstyle in its place, and the orchestral element to it gives it the epic feel that all of your songs deserve. Perhaps I'm being too critical of this song because it's basically just a parody, but then again I know you Gravey, and you're fantastic at writing really cool shit. While this is a very interesting song, I'm not entirely sure this is your best work lol. Still, I gotta give you props for transcending hardstyle...it really does sound like nu-hardstyle, like nu-metal and hardstyle combined, eh? =P
Now all you gotta do is transcend the dubstep genre, and we'll all be good! ;)
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