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Still experimenting with that guitar tuning I utilized in last week’s song (DGDAAE) but exploring more dissonant chord voicings through distortion. I also finished playing Blasphemous 2 and Tails of Iron this week, thus the combination of metal and rats. No vocals though, which is a fail on my part for starting so late.
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I like how this track has a dark doom/death metal ambience to it. I think it's really cool that it sounds like you have a bell tone or an effect that gives the effect of a bell because coincidently I also used a sound like that this week. I like the crunchy guitar tone you have in the middle of the song. It has a nice mid-range sound to it. The heavy tone at the end is nice and has like the right amount of fizz to it. I know this isn't probably what you were going for, but the fact that there is a slight mismatch between the drums and the guitars actually gives it this really cool human sound. It doesn't sound bad at all to me! I actually really like it because it sounds like some of the old school death metal records where people were experimenting with punchy syncopated passages before everybody started practicing that and it got super polished. It gives it a real attitude! Nice work on this one. I enjoyed it a lot!
Unearthed from the pit of doom itself! Feel the darkness rising! 2:42 is heavenly and a nice break before plunging back into the abyss. Looking forward to the vocals version next time too!
Still works great as an instrumental. The distortion and dissonance at play here are pretty powerful!
Awesome tune! Would love to see what you would have done with a bit more time, I like the part at 3:22, the guitar almost sounds like some creepy rat screeches.
It is so fun to move some air sometimes... I do record most of the time DI myself as well, but it is fun to jam with some volume too. Sorry to ear that you are having technical difficulties with the computer.
Track is very nice. I like the guitar tones, bass is fun. The trick with not that great guitar timing is to stretch audio the shit out of it! But this can become quite a problem too when you start to try to align everything to the grid...
Anyways, thanks for the track!
The primary riff is really cool. I like that you use it clean at the beginning, then it works equally well with some gain at the end. The soaring leads on top of it during the outro are killer. Nice job!
Super light strings are such a pleasure to play, though it's easy to get them to sharp even pressing or hitting a tad too much. For some reason, this reminded me of Mastodon, on their lighter tracks. There is the sense of mystery. That bass playing is always so good - it's easy to focus on the guitars, but the bass playing is really bringing a lot to the track as well.
The guitars sound excellent. So melodic and heavy all at once. The progression took me back to some soundgarden days. Love the stuttery hit section. Like I just picked up the super machine gun and lay waste to the baddies. Mysterious vibes a plenty. Nice work!
Cool dark feel to this and I like the mix of clean and distorted guitars.
I really like the guitar tones, the distorted one is just just perfect!
definitely a spooky one, guitar tone sounds great. really love the section from 02:00 through 2:49 and the change-up that comes out of that section. some great unexpected rhythms throughout.
all hail the royal rat authority!
I'm not sure exactly why, but I'm getting some like Alice in Chains vibes, in the best possible way... Also it seems like you using string noise as ear candy, or at least it feels very deliberate, like at 1:47 and 4:19, and I love it. Like, I'm absolutely going to sample a bunch of string noise to use as little ear candy now.
Let me salute the drummer too. I have no idea how you prepare such good beats, it brings a lot of power to your tracks as well.
Musically this was a complex trip as always.
super cool track! nice dark feeling, feels progressive and goes many places, has cool riffs if not catchy melodies (at least nothing hooked me particularly but everything sounded really good). cool soloing and cool sound all around. very impressive and enjoyable!
dissonant dealingz 
of these royal rat authoritarian stealingz 
bringz me the most exquisitely dark feelingz! 
