Excellent! the ambiance mixed with the metal guitar...the drums... the melody! it's all so smooth! a sense of attitude lingers in this piece!

I can hear this in a game soundtrack and I love me some VG music.
very awesome track. I like the little sounds you go going on in the background. tone is excellent and the drums have like a soundtracky sound to them. not a bad thing at all. diggin it, dude. great job!

Love how full this is!!!
I wish i could just flip through the tabs of your multiband compressor to see your settings XD

This is just awesome. I'm a bit exhausted from thinking so much about all the tracks, so hopefully all that critique you received (what was it? 11 people? it was great) was enough... :P I'll just leave some praise here:

Aah great guitar work! Intro is amazing. It all just sounds so epic, and fantastic. Your use of effects is very nice. The way your guitar, drums and bass all combine is just so pleasant to listen to. I'm rocking out in my chair now. No, forget it. I'm standing up now because I'm filled with so much energy!

I think that transition at 1:42 is not too shabby; that effect you have in the background helps with the sudden change to strings - which was excellent-sounding, by the way. Also the way you let the guitar go at 1:30 was done just right.

One thing I see that has happened here is how the time-limit challenge got you - your ending is almost not even an ending :( I would really love to hear more to this! Because what you've got here is just so amazing, really. Epic, epic, epic.

What an excellent track. You should not be bummed at all that you got no votes. I honestly expected you or johnfn to win, and like I said in the thread, I only voted for johnfn over you because I thought that his track felt more detailed and like it had more thought put into it, whereas I feel that the deadline didn't work as well for you. But honestly, your production quality, composition, execution, and everything are so good that if it was only a bit longer and more developed/fleshed-out then I would've voted for it.

I'm going to start by saying that I love this kind of metal. Melodic, catchy metal which isn't just mindless shredding is just awesome, and here you execute it perfectly. Your guitar playing is nailed. I loved the rhythm guitar's riffs; maybe the chugging rhythm is a bit generic but honestly at this point it's impossible to find a fitting rhythm that hasn't been used many times before. It works well and fits neatly with the track.

The production value is through the roof. For three days, you've certainly managed to make a polished and tight mix. I remember listening to the tracks before voting and when I got to this track, I literally thought "crap, this guy knows what he's doing" when I heard 0:08. The guitar sounds GREAT, and your heavy use of compression works well over here since it really highlights the oomph of the guitar combined with those badass drums.

Speaking of which, the drums are stellar. I have yet to learn how to make such a clear and bassy kick, and that snare is amazing. The cymbal may have been a little underpowered (for some reason I swear I can hear it a bit better in the SoundCloud link but then again SoundCloud's playback is a bit compressed/weird at times). Otherwise, I have no complaints with the percussion, and I love that sci-fi-esque snare hit you played at times like 0:24 and 1:43 (or is that the same snare except with filters on it?).

The composition is lovely. Very catchy and "epic"-sounding. In a way it reminds me heavily of this (http://goo.gl/gdDni) for some reason. Like I mentioned in the review, my main gripe with the composition is that I think you use it to the point that it sounds pretty overused and milked. I would've liked some different melodic stuff played by the lead guitar, while still giving in some hints of that motif here and there, rather than starting every melody you've got with it (I'm talking about the first five notes of 0:25). Still, why should I be complaining? Composition is catchy, and well-made. I'm just nitpicking.

The instrumentation is sweet; one of my favourite things about this track. I always love when tracks blend metal with orchestral, or metal with electronic elements. Naturally, when you blend all three together you really win me over. The sci-fi stuff works well with the guitar and then you introduce strings which, while sounding premature and unexpected, sound great with everything else. Additionally, the sci-fi/techno elements tie the track to the biodome theme, even if that tie is not very strong.

Transitions are nice; nothing extraordinary, but they're good. 1:42 may have been a bit abrupt but otherwise, smooth transitions on the whole. Sweet intro as well. The same unfortunately can't be said for the ending though. After such good production and structure, all of a sudden you throw in some strings out of nowhere, and end the track like nothing happened. It makes it sound an awful lot like the deadline got the better of you, and as I said a few times now, the fact that this track has some underdeveloped ideas, not as much content and that weird ending is probably the main (or rather, only) reason I didn't vote for it.

Honestly though, I regret not voting for it. This track is fantastic and based on this track alone I consider you one of the most talented metal artists that I've heard here on Newgrounds. Eventually I'll check out some of your other stuff to see if it's on par with this, and if so you're going straight to my favourite artists list. Keep it up!

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