Thy Majestie's new song - listen to it!

Hi there

this is a mp3 from (my band) Thy Majestie's forthcoming album "Jeanne d'Arc" : Maiden of Steel

recorded and mixed by me with Sonar 4.01 and Creamware Pulsar plug-ins (me also on drums ) mastered by Goran Finnberg at Mastering Room (Sweden).

any opinion will be appreciated except comments on the strong italian accent

thanks for your reply,
the lead sound you mean , lead guitar?

I understand what you want to say . Well, we love '80s heavy metal style. That's why we want to keep something of that sound in our music.

Wow...Jeeze...Don't know what quite to say here. Awesome, I guess. It's just that I have not heard music like that in a really long time. It is really well executed and it reminds me of bands I listened to when I was 15-18 years old, like TNT and stuff like that.

The drummer must have very tired legs after playing that song...

You guys are awesome. I really want to pick up the earlier album (1066??). I listen to stuff like Kamelot, Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica. Prog metal is a lot of fun.

Wow! This is one of the best (or maybe the best) production I listened to from this forum.
Excellent song and sound. Not exactly my style, but who cares. Hey, do you play that kind of music at that speed live? You must be well trained!

Can you tell us something about the production?
How did you get the choir at the beginning?

The only thing I noticed is, that the cymbals are a bit high and thin, and a bit hmm.. "alone" in its frequency range. But this is really nitpicking.


Keep up the great work!
Greets
Melf

Wow, incredibly energetic tune, oengus! The production seems very well done. Very polished. I dug the photos of your drum kit, too (I followed your signature link)!

Man, you had me fooled though. I didn't think those were real drums because of the machine-gun kick drum sound. When you said "me also on drums," I thought you meant drum programming, wink, wink. That's kind of odd that you got real drums to sound like that.

But that's my only negative criticism. And it's awesome that you can play like that, obviously. I don't think I would have noticed the cymbals if Melf hadn't mentioned it. (Melf's pretty good at picking out those subtleties in a mix, too.) And I definitely wouldn't have noticed any accent!

Nice job.

M

ORIGINAL: M

Man, you had me fooled though. I didn't think those were real drums because of the machine-gun kick drum sound. When you said "me also on drums," I thought you meant drum programming, wink, wink. That's kind of odd that you got real drums to sound like that.

But that's my only negative criticism. And it's awesome that you can play like that, obviously.

Hi M ,

yes these are real played drums. I recorded them acoustic then I triggered the acoustic bass drums signal and I obtained a midi track . Then I mixed the acoustic track with the midi . I used the acoustic to have the "human" touch , the midi one for the punch.
Anyway, I'm not so fast with the double bass drums : check this video http://www.georgekollias.com/video/studio_4.avi