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[CR34T10N]

Nice arrangement, awful guitars.

Please, why is everybody using these malicious Slayer-VST-FL-Studio-guitars? If you ever listened to rock music you would notice that they do NOT in any way sound like real guitars but like synthesizer bullshit. No offense.

The arrangement and composition is okay - up to a certain point, not superb, but okay. The drums are a bit monotonous, a bit variation would be helpful.

The song quality really decreases rapidly at 01:46. Instead of variating your song with new riffs or melodies, you keep adding really cheaply sounding synthesizers - they seep completely out of place in a song which is supposed to sound like rock. This can especially be seen at 03:16 when this really cheap Sytrus preset lead synthesizer plays alone. Use something more quiet and delightful here, a piano, perhaps a clean guitar or harp - but not these awfully cheap VST presets.

Variation and better instrumentation are the keywords here. The song isn't bad, just not good executed. You have the talent to do so, so search for some guitar players and keep rocking :)

Experiment-D responds:

well unlike some people
i dont have the recording equipment to add in real guitar
ive been playing for 6 years
id love to add my own ( i know itd sound way better with my own guitars not synth shit)
but
im stuck with this for now
so
DEAL WITH IT
and i know the quality sucks
cuz of the 8k policy i had to downsize the file

[Killed In Your Sleep]

Good riffing, bad recording quality

The riffing is well done, the different licks flow nicely. The leads contribute to the atmosphere of the song.
I like how you processed the drums, even though they still sound a bit articifal to me.

Still, you need to improve your guitar sound. It has absolutely no presence and no power. It's overly distorted, still distortion doesn't necessarily mean energy. If you improved that, mic-ed it better and improved your mixing it could be much better ;).

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks man. There was no mixing on this. I had killed my hd..and was in the process of testing out new equipment. I still have yet to get the hang of it..but getting better. The distortion isn't mic'd. I was testing out amplitube's muscles. I don't really like it because as you say, too much distortion. haha. Anyways..Thanks for the review man. I shall return the favor when you upload some tunes. Also, check my other shit..(the non tests...some better stuffs there)

Thanks again\m/