Reviews for =(The Nightmare)=

[NekoMika]

This song sounds quite nice. Really liked the use of guitar here. Gives that feeling of it being crunching time for Nightmare Moon. She slowly ebbs back into Ponyville wishing to give each pony their worst nightmare forever.

The guitar sounds spectacular and was that.... a Sonic soundbyte I heard? Sounded like a 1-up sound slightly slown down, pretty neat either way. The drums have a nice kicking taste to them. The slight use of static makes me think of a TV breaking as well or possibly Twilight Sparkle's house falling in on itself. Elsewhere, Luna rises to the occasion to tame the Nightmares.

The bass I hear is really soothing on the ears as well. Great work in that part.

Overall, great song and somewhat reminds me of The Prodigy.

[optimize]

nice

[Hank1020]

Good music

ArcaneSoul responds:

yes.

[johnfn]

The guitar was a nice touch. Industrial is a good genre. I used to be a huge Nine Inch Nails guy when I was younger. If I could make a suggestion, it would be to have the guitar be crunchier at times. Like, I can only really hear the midrange I guess? And maybe you should master it to allow the higher ranges to come out at central points? Because right now it sounds almost backgroundy, like it would fit in trance instead of industrial. It's fine, but I feel like with a little more punch it could really burst through.

lol the only reason I know this is because I just started learning about mastering. AND YES IT IS REALLY HARD. I wish I would have started learning earlier...

If I could make another suggestion, maybe it would be to have that guitar riff move around a little. 7 minutes is a long time for an industrial song to stay in once place. I was listening to some other guy's stuff and one way that he made variations even in the same chord progression was by just changing the structure of the beat, if that makes sense. It's a really interesting idea and it makes your song sound a lot more dynamic.

Anyway it's good and I always approve of a foray into new genres and experimentalism. Keep it up.

ArcaneSoul responds:

Well remember the guitar IS a sample as i can't really play it sadly. I just thought it sounded cool and decided to put it in XD

[Dawnslayer]

I feel this song lacks a consistent theme. I was loving the parts with the guitar, but for the parts in between those it was like I was listening to a completely different song. It's not bad by any means, but I think it could have been better.

ArcaneSoul responds:

Eh yeah. Whenever i make my dark songs like this they tend to be less melodic.

Im still learning so cut me some slack XD