Extreme metal

https://soundcloud.com/memorare/in-vain

long time no post.

well a while anyhow. first track i've put on here for..over a year probably??

Extreme metal, purposefully in the Swedish blackened death idiom for those of you who care about such details.

This was recorded about 4 months ago, and I have remixed in X2, which I have to say has been marvellous - no crashes, love the pro-channel, yes i'm a fan...

anyhoo, comments are very appreciated, and i will get back onto the commenting front. thanks.

mgh, WOW, that was, well, uh, pretty In Vain, to say the least. Very different for me, as I'm sure you already know. You seemed to capture the title of the song quite well,, but is a bit to much  for my old ears. I tried thought.

Peace and blessings, John

needs drums man.
good tune, nice guitar work, nice vocal, a little much distortion on the mix and drums are too low.
love the sound of the guitars, very powerful
with that comes a trade of though of blanking the rest of the mix.

I mix metal a lot and know how difficult and can be to squezze it all in the mix but overloading levels will cause distortion, not the good kind either :)

you have the basis for a mint tune.

I believe this would benefit from just a little more blackness and death. And yes the drums could come out a bit more. You could always duck the bass a little with a compressor against the kick? And push the transients on the drums.

mgh


https://soundcloud.com/memorare/in-vain

long time no post.

well a while anyhow. first track i've put on here for..over a year probably??

Extreme metal, purposefully in the Swedish blackened death idiom for those of you who care about such details.

This was recorded about 4 months ago, and I have remixed in X2, which I have to say has been marvellous - no crashes, love the pro-channel, yes i'm a fan...

anyhoo, comments are very appreciated, and i will get back onto the commenting front. thanks.

Vintage outstanding guitar playing Mark!! Loved the song also. As for the mix, you know me and mixing I can't help much there. 
Excellent!!

sounds great as is, keeping in with the genre.

That break really sets up a monstrous return.

Hey, Mark,
 
Great song with a very cool intro and nice thick wall of guitars!
 
I love the ripping lead around the three minute mark, the quiet bridge was nicely done, and I really liked the tasteful return from it.
 
The mix sounds just right for the genre, but the drums are buried.  If I took all that time to program that monster drum track, I'd definitely push them up a few dB and beef them up with some low end.
 
Excellent work, Mark!
Bob

Not really my thing but I did listen

hey chaps
many thanks for listening. i forget until i check in what a fine body of men/women frequent here.
so, i have d/l to my ipod and listened again - yes the drums can come up a bit. grrr...really need new monitors i think. i don't want a superclean production, however, as that doesn't fit in with the music style. The compressed saturated sound is deliberate. however i need to glue it all together, and yes sort out the low end. hang fire....

Hi Mark-

The song is coool. I like it a lot. The drums are still buried though. They need to express power. The vocal is coming through for the most part on my system. If you feel like spending the time, try finding the kick and the snare's key frequencies. For this genre, the kick needs a combination of ~80Hz and ~4kHz for the click of the beater. The snare needs to cut and be in your face. When you identify these freqs, try notching the guitars at a high/narrow Q and boosting the kick and snare at the same freq. This will allow the key freqs of the kick and snare to cut through the "holes" you create by notching.