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[Hatred For Mankind]

Pretty good all around.

I thought that the vocals and instruments had a nice ratio of volume even though some people thought the lyrics should have been louder. If you simply turn your speakers way up it sounds like it's in the right spot.

I love heavy metal, but I don't think that this is my style at all. I love screaming, but this sounds more like I'm a emo and I can growl and scream and my life is so bad that I'm going to turn to Satan and hate mankind type of bull crap music, but I won't let my joy of life and music preferences effect the score.

The instruments themselves were very good, but there was really never that one specific part where the guitar blew my mind out or anything like that. It was kind of conservative in my mind. I already commented on how I thought the lyrics and vocals were kind of whiny and emo like, but again I can't let judgment effect my score since I'm reviewing on quality.

There's just something about the vocals that tells me this isn't quite here even though I haven't heard black metal like this before. I think the vocals can be improved slightly, but I don't know how.

Hm, I guess that's all I have to say. I added it to my favorites because I knew I wanted to come back to review it, but it really isn't one of my favorite audio submissions. I'll probably keep it there though for future reference. Keep on working.

himenow responds:

This is nowhere near emo. I am the anti-emo.
And whiny how? It's about a man who's oppressed by society and then becomes depressed. His depression then leads him to anger and rage.

And of course everything can be improved. I'm not in a professional studio and I do all my own work, I don't know all the tricks and secrets of a professional studio, but I try my best.

Anyway, thanks for the review. :)

[Hit_That_Bass! [Box-Killa]]

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The song is pretty good all around. I like how it's really fast paced throughout the entire submission. I do agree that some of it sounds electronic and some doesn't, but it really doesn't take anything away from the submission.

The ending kind of disappointing as the song was so fast paced the entire time and it just kind of comes to a screeching halt with an abrupt ending. Since it was such a fast paced song the ending should have been a fast series of notes in my opinion. Oh well, pretty good all around.

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[ComTune]

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I listened to this like 5 times now. It really has a nice catchy beat to it and I loved the way the song and the vocals went together so well. I really like the effects used on the voice and my favorite part of the entire song would have to be when she said, "Rock this."

Yeah, great song all around. I really don't have much to comment about it as the vocals and the song just seemed to fit together perfectly.

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h4C0r responds:

oh wow thank you so much :) you honestly left me speechless :) heh thank you for enjoying it so much :)

[[herd] Triumphant]

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Hm, the first thing that I think of when listening to this song is the originality of it. It really does sound like a lot of other songs out there, but most things have been done and it's hard to be original at times. It never gets too repetitive and has a really nice beat to it, which kept me into the song and moving my head to the beat the entire time. (That's why they call it dance though I guess)

Something that I think might help this submission might be to add some vocals here and there. I'm not asking for singing, but maybe something as simple as counting such as in a part where it slows down and then picks back up, before it picks back up perhaps you could have a voice counting 1, 2, 3 or something similar.

All around though it's a great song to move to and I liked the effects used in it.

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Herdunculus responds:

Oh yea! Vocals like that would be awesome! Only, I don't know how to add cool vocals to my music...I'm gonna find out how! Thanks a lot.

[i ate the easter bunny]

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AHA!

I added it right to my favorites man it was pretty funny. Completely random all around, but it funny all the way through as well.

The lyrics were pretty funny and well written. The vocals were pretty much awesome as well. I don't know about the high pitch voice that said something after the "Out popped the Easter Bunny..." because it really sounded out of place there for some reason and I couldn't make out what was being said. The two different voices singing at the same time sounded great together though.

Not really much to review here because I can't find much wrong with it, but great job.

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TheBardOfBlasphemy responds:

Hey thanks a lot for the review... this one went right under the radar it seems...

Cheers for the feedback, too... glad you found it amusing!

Yeah, that dodgy vocal your talking about: it was never intended to be in the song, just an incidental thing the mic "overheard". It says "that sounds terrible" and it was me, referring to the quality of my singing!!! I kept it in because crapping out a full-grown easter bunny in a shower of hot shit doesn't sound that great either D:

Haha, once again, thanks a lot man. I really appreciate the job you guys do.

[Mentality Breach]

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It started out great. I could really imagine things just bugging you and bugging you to the point where your head simply clears of what ever you were originally thinking and then suddenly fills up with some of the things that make you angry. So great introduction and it sounded exactly like what you explained in your author comments.

Now for the meat of the song though... I don't think that is what I would call confused or angry whatsoever. If anything that was a very happy sound and something that I would imagine hearing when nothing was getting to me at all. Even though I don't think it represented what angry and confused would sound like I understand that we all experience the emotions differently. I think confused would be better represented as more of a random song and that anger would be more represented as a heavier song.

Towards the end though I can really see where you were coming from with the sometimes angry part. The heavier sound that the song gave did a good job at representing and angry emotion.

If I had to review the song based on your description I think I would have gave it something around a 7, but since I'm reviewing it as the quality of the song all around I'm going to give it what I feel it deserves, which is a 10. I thought it had a pretty original sound to it and that it wasn't something that you would hear everyday. I liked the mixture of happy/angry sounds and really liked the sounds in the introduction. An overall pretty good piece of work.

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Birdinator99 responds:

Hey, thanks dude!

Ya, this stuff is a lot heavier than what I'm used to, in my opinion (probably because of the bass part), but I guess it's not really that "confusing" or random so to speak when you think about it.

Thanks for the 10/10 and I'm glad you liked it!

[Alive and Awake]

I knew I was going to like this.

I knew that I was going to like this as soon as it started. I'll have to disagree with the guy that says he had heard something like this before because if he has then I want a link to it because I sure haven't.

I loved the sound effects that you used for this and really think that you took some risks with the effects that you used and that they really turned out well! The song as a whole was nice, upbeat, and really fun to listen to.

I feel that it isn't your generic Techno song that you usually hear because of the effects that you used. If anything needs work perhaps it could be how it ends because it just kind of ends without warning. I feel a better series of notes to end on would have been better, but since I don't know the techy stuff about music I can't really tell you exactly what would have made it better.

Good job though!

TheSongSalad responds:

Thanks a lot for the review, I really appreciate it.

[Saga of the Fallen Warrior]

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Ha, a song about Ninjas. Awesome.

You could write a song just about anything couldn't you? This was another great written song and you did a great job on singing it. This song flowed much better than your other songs and it was just non stop.

I liked the effects that you used on some spots for the vocals. The music again sounded great and really matched the lyrics a lot. Perhaps something you could see on the credits of a more modern ninja movie or something of the sort.

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BAF responds:

hey Fro glad you liked it. I guess I will have to strive to match the smoothness of my delivery on this track as I have been told this is my best in terms of that. The effects were just me re-recording the words on the same spot after the first cut of the song was done, nothing fancy lol, I don't really know how to do that much with effects and i'm using audacity which is much more limited than something like Fruity Loops. And if I ever heard this song during the credits to anything professional i'd shit my pants! thanks for the review.

[My Workshop]

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This is pretty cool all around. I enjoyed that you had a story within your vocals and it went along very well with the whole robot/workshop theme that you had going on with this song. The vocals themselves were pretty decent all around.

The amount of lyrics that you have is amazing. Usually when listening to songs it's just the same thing over and over or just very few things being said, but you had so much here.

The music set behind the vocals was perfect and sounded really good with the lyrics. I personally didn't like that other voice that you had in there. The fake sound to it just wasn't really enjoyable at all. I also think that you kind of ended the song abruptly on top of that.

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BAF responds:

The gnomes were a completely spur of the moment thing! I was about to export the final product when I got the idea, sorry you didn't like it. Yes it does end abruptly, and that's a problem I face A LOT for the reason you already mentioned, I just write too much lol, and I have a tough time cutting things out. Thanks for the review.