This is seriously amazing as always, everything is professional and tight, and the melodic content is really moving. You're an inspiration dude! Please make music forever.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss, but I'm always happy to see those emotions manifested through music. keep it up dude
You're professional and tight <3
Don't worry about it. It certainly made this track tough to make in such a short time frame (Literally got the idea 2 days before it had to be submitted ha) and there's so much I'd love to change, but I think I'll let the emotions be.
Thanks man :)
Fucking incredible man, mind-blowing stuff here. Reminds me of the band Threat Signal for some reason, but better I think. Sorry to hear about your loss man, what an awesome tribute though.
Man Threat Signal are like one of my favourite bands haha, what a compliment! Thanks a lot dude, he was a great guy and an amazing drummer, what better way than to make a track with extremely complicated drums haha :)
This is a NGADM Quarter-Final Review!
I'm really sorry for your loss, my condolences.
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Since I hesitated to give you top marks for the last round I was more willing to go all-out on this one. After listening to yours and Garlagan's tracks I realised I would need to break out the decimal places anyway.
Some have said they found this less inspired than previous pieces but I think it is simply less polished. There is a crazy amount of massive riffs in this with insane guitar-god playing to top it all off (seriously, are you human?), that mental lead section at 1:40 with all the fast playing AND variation. Just wow.
However, it's lacking in the details at times. For example, I find the drums don't sit well in the mix - too much reverb and I think I hear a touch of distortion in places where you've pushed the limiter just a little too hard (around the 1:20 mark a few times, for example).
So have you always played 8-stringed guitars (thinking of your Harmony of Heroes post)?! :P
9.8/10
Generic heavy metal... I like it! Wish I could distinguish the instrument names though. I'm trying to find particular instruments that I heard on this one anime but I can't find them.
I feel like the drum could be faster. Have you heard this one remix of ghost n goblins which gets a heavy metal redo? Its really fast paced. Is there a big difference between this and speed metal?
Btw fI you want the link for that g n g remix just ask.
Okay, this is going to be a review kind of coinciding with some of the others, that being that some of this song feels a little... I don't know, disjointed, maybe? However, this, for me, is not a con. If anything, it's actually kind of unique. Not every song needs to be completely straightforward in terms of beat or tempo or a combination of the two. This song, though it has a bit of an off-beat section in the middle, is actually one of the more phenomenal songs I've heard on Newgrounds as of yet, and I've heard quite a lot that I consider phenomenal. Working through the death of your friend must not have been easy, and it's easy for anyone to start spiraling out of their groove when they're dealing with something as tragic as that. Even then, you managed to pull out something truly amazing here, and I'm highly impressed with what you've done. In fact, you actually kind of make me envious. It was around this time, back in 2014, that I was really starting to feel the bite of my still-ongoing creative block, and even though I'm armed with new toys to play with (sadly, I do everything on the computer as I do not have any good recording set-ups, nor do I practice near enough to be where I want to be), I still can't come up with anything new. I admire your ability to work through such a tragedy to bring us something truly awe-inspiring. I ought to look through your stuff more and see what else you've put out.