A spazzy and spiffy soundtrack, would be awesome if there's a downloading option.
Reviews for "The Power To End Us All"
Man, I don't really consider myself a metal guy, but I can just hear the great musicianship here. Glad I'm not in the same category as you for the NGUAC! Keep up the good tunes.
I like edgy guitar riffs at the beginning. As usual, you’ve seamlessly interwoven engrossing melodic elements into a riff-based, dense heavy metal texture. I wish the drums were a bit more up-front in the mix, especially the snare and crashes, which could’ve added an enhanced sense of drive and passion to the track if they cut through more. I suppose my main complaint is that, for large swathes of this piece, the track has a uniform energy to it so as to detract from a sense of structural variety. And when I finally get this structural variety, it comes 2.5 minutes into the piece - that’s a long time to wait without much dynamic contrast or shaping. I loved that 20-second stretch starting at 3:09 when the bass completely dominates the melody, though. If that’s what you do to switch up the texture in a piece that sees very few instruments added or taken away as it progresses, I’ll embrace it. That doesn’t invalidate my grievances regarding the lack of phrasing, however. While this lack of phrasing makes it hard to follow the structure, I actually think this piece is very well-structured and smooth-flowing. It’s just hard to keep the listener grounded when your piece has a continuous intensity. I also think you could’ve maximized the emotion of the piece by thinking more about structural variety, but perhaps I’ve already beaten, stabbed, and decapitated a dead horse at this point. Despite my structural complaints, this is enjoyable work! Keep it up, PirateCrab! ;)
8.5/10