Rottenbeard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[When The Time Comes]

Quite good!

The first 2 minutes of this song really has a strong floyd vibe that I was really digging, the pace picks up quite a bit after that and, oddly enough, reminds me of some of Katatonias stuff. The vocals were alright, not great, not horrible, just OK.

I can't help but feel they may benefit from better compression and maybe different use of reverb to make it feel like your voice is more in the room with the other instruments.

Anyways, not bad!

Regards,
Daniel

Kor-Rune responds:

Thanks! I'll learn better compression techniques and reverb management. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[Lighthouse Song]

Great melody

I really enjoyed this. This style of music is typically out of the genre's I normally review in, but this songs progression and melody was really enjoyable, so kudos to you for getting me to listen to a style of music I don't usually listen to ;).

My only criticism is that the sidechained compression on the kick in a few areas is so heavy I sometimes found it distracting. I know this "pump" is a sought after sound in a lot of trance / d&b music so this is just my own personal perference coming in to play.

Regards,
Daniel

WritersBlock responds:

Thanks for the comments and criticisms, your review was helpful, especially since I'm messing about with a lot of sidechaining in my music at the moment.

[12 Gauge Shotguns]

Love this

I love your playing style, I love the folk and even spanish influence in some parts. It's great!

Your new mic also sounds extremely good (very warm). The reverb you're using gives this a nice 'live' feel.

I enjoyed this, good work!

Kor-Rune responds:

Thanks! Sorry for the bit of rattling you may hear, that's my loose tuners, since I'm using a twelve string, but with only six strings, haha.

Thanks for the review!

[4-2-1 (F-777 Contest Edition)]

Great!

Great use of drumming, great build up and excellent mix quality.

Like others have said, the only thing that lets this piece down is the rather lack-luster ending, the entire song is a progressive build up, so the lack of a climax is a bit jarring.

Otherwise, an excellent piece that sounds professionally done. Good work!

[Titanium Assault]

Heavy as hell.

This far exceeded my expectations.

Just awesome man. The mix is excellent, for a joint project, you guys truly outdid your selves. Sounds professionally recorded. Everything in the mix sits well, the guitar playing is top notch and the drumming is great, never getting lost in the mix as can sometimes happen in songs heavy in the low end such as this.

High score all around from me. Keep shit like this coming out!

[LetItComeForth (Bard&FarCryDX)]

Awesome!

Your vocal style fit this song perfectly, I love how you maintained a growl even through the whispers/soft spoken parts.

The only criticism I can offer is that in a few areas, the vocals didn't flow as well as they could have with the song its self. Some minor re-restructuring of the words might help with this. Not a major deal though, and not really worth going over it again.

This song rocks as much as FarCryDX's instrumental version :). You've definitely got the death metal growl down. Good work man. You guys make a good team.

Cheers,
Daniel

TheBardOfBlasphemy responds:

I would agree with the teamwork comment. Not sure about the flow... any parts in particular? I tweaked one or two lines from the original ever so slightly... anyway, there's no glaring speedbumps I wouldn't think.

Cheers for the listen, man. Keep it metal D:

[From Inside]

Really, really good.

Great stuff man. This song has excellent melody and emotion. You guys sound great, I hope for your sake that you find the time or things simply work out so you can get back together and keep playing. Even if you never make it big, sometimes just playing for the fun of it is enough, and you guys sound like you really groove together in this song.

If this was self mixed you did an incredible job, because it sounds professionally mixed and mastered.

I really enjoyed this, hope things work out for you guys.

Cheers,
Daniel

[{Heim} A Storm in the Night]

Great!

A very well done piece. Lots of complexity in the melody with lots of variation. I'm really impressed with this.

It's not too hard to work with orchestral VST's, string a bunch of chords together and come up with something that sounds decent. But to string together a piece like this, with all the variation and competing melodies coming out as a nice sounding whole, well, it's great :). Lots of varied instrumentation too which is nice to see. This really does sound professionally done.

I don't really have any valid criticism to give because I can't really find anything wrong with this. Someone more tuned with classical "score" music like this might be better suited to offer feedback though :).

Anyways, good job!

JeffHeim responds:

You're right about the sounds, they do wonders in capturing the moment just right. I can't believe I composed without them for so long! Thank you for your feedback. Much more music from me to come for sure.

[Words from the heart]

Excellent.

This is very good. I really like this. The soft piano pieces are brilliant.
I don't much like when the tempo picks up, it seems to me to change the mood of the song a bit too much and you go from a really sad sounding piece to an almost cheery piece. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I just personally don't like it.

I think maybe a better quality piano VST would be a big improvement too.

I would love to see this in an orchestral piece, I think it would translate extremely well and be a very powerful piece.

I enjoyed this a lot, keep it up :)

[Let It Come Forth (Metal)]

KIcks ass.

This song rocks my shit off.

Some of the synth in a few areas didn't seem to mesh as well as it could have, but everything else was spot on, the drumming fit perfectly, and you've got a really awesome sounding crunch going on.

Much enjoyed! Reminds me of some of dimmu borgirs stuff, minus the screaming of course ;).