TheBardOfBlasphemy's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Project XeRa6]

very cool

slick production and great execution, xeno!

i was grooving. Some of those licks were very impressive.

Xenogenocide responds:

Thanks dude, I'm helping dev out with a solo on his new track with your vocals in it ;)

[Overseer of Disease (EoC/Xeno)]

superb fucking madness

love your vox and a great track to belt them out to...

it worked out well.

ElfofChaos responds:

thanks bro, xeno always makes killer tunes \m/

[Crown of Shattered Glass (Ins)]

\m/ black fucking metal \m/

the drums have been discussed so i won't go there... they're actually not that bad... they probably can go up a bit in the mix... but only a bit.

this is meant to be black metal, so i would agree with you about the guitar sound... fuck man, i remember the first time i heard Ulver's album "Nattens Madrigal"... i nearly shit my pants at the feral tone... it was pure evil. So if anything, make it more lo-fi.

repetitive... well, a bit... but it's black metal!!! it's the shit!!!

well done on your getting your first track up here :D
you might struggle to build a massive fan-base... but i'm digging your shit, so keep posting.

Elvenefris responds:

Thanks :) I'm glad someone else on Newgrounds has an appreciation for the grim and frostbitten. :D

I expect the scores to go even lower once I add vocals. For some reason, people are even more particular about black metal shrieks than they are about death grunts. :P

[Labyrinth Of The Damned (FULL)]

killer track

great variety of riffs and emotions... the mix was good too... i liked the change-ups.

Looking forward to hearing the vox, eh?

Deathcalypse responds:

Thank you! Im very anxious to get vocals on this. i'll hit you up when i do. :D

[They Want Your Flesh(EoC/GrbD)]

fuck i am in awe of those screeeeams...

i will make sure to listen to some more of your gear, shit hot!!!!

i was going to say that i thought the vox levels were a tad too high and slightly overpowered the guitars etc, but fuck it, they were awesome. Plus... that sort of shit is highly subjective... i'm learning, more than ever, that different speakers, headphones, and stereo setups, can totally change the impression of volume on that centre channel (vox channel).

your vox rip the shit out of my brain... good work! and a great track to work with.

great work man. If you get a chance, check out any of my metal collabs... i think you'll be pleased in an evil way D=<

ElfofChaos responds:

hahaha, very glad you enjoyed this one man, I had alot of fun screaming my butt off for this one

and I'll give your stuff a listen for sure! \m/

[Future Quest]

i like the rhythm and the grit of it..

but you really need to s-p-r-e-a-d out those instruments...

besides the synth, pretty much everything was centred throughout... play the same rhythm guitar twice over and pan one hard left and one hard right (or, at least, 50-50)... drums can go wider too... that way, if someone puts vox on this, they've got space for them.

besides that, this was pretty fuckin shit hot :D

3piecejimmy responds:

i appreciate the input man. and i like the idea, it makes sense. i just never put a lot of effort into mixing and what not. lol but glad u like it and the input helps a lot.

[Antihero (TN+CD)]

you did it justice...

it is a mega track... it took some balls even to think of adding vox, but you made a good job of it.

I was going to say something about "a few more spots the vox would've fit" but then read a review below... and your answer is highly appropriate. The lead guitars really own this track and the vox are only there to back it up, every (very rarely) now and then.

good shit man!

TwilightNecrosis responds:

Yeah, CD definitely knows how to wank on that VST of his. I didn't want to get in the way of that shit.
The vocals are just there to fill in the empty spaces where the wanking subsides, haha.
Thanks for the review, man. This never got the attention that I think it deserves, it being CD's and all.
Metal! \m/

[Black Christmas (vocals)]

lol... holy fuck that was evil

loved the lyrics man... satan comes for thee with outstretched arms!

that's gotta be done with a pitch-shifter, doesn't it?

sounded evil and rad. good job :D

TwilightNecrosis responds:

Nope, that was my straight voice. No pitch-shifting at all.
I did have to crank up the gain on my mic quite a bit, though; can't pump out those lows with very much volume.
It was also all exhales, if you wanna know the truth. =D
Thanks for the review, man; I dig your shit.
Metal! \m/

[Ab Logic Test]

if this is just a test...

then what the fuck is the real deal gonna sound like?

evil! that's what!

well, more evil, i guess... god, the tone is so dirty... your string must surely be flapping in the wind. If you decide to go any lower you're gonna hafta put bass strings on your guitar.

dug it man... i'm gettin' really psyched about the direction your music is going in...

PenguinBomb responds:

Haha thanks man, yeah for some reason the past several songs I've written have been getting progressively more aggressive and such. And yeah, guitar tuned down to Ab haha, the lowest string was a .062, it was indeed flopping around. And actually I have a cheap guitar that I mess around with that I actually put bass strings on once, I tuned it like an octave lower and it was so muddy and disgusting but it was brutal and intense!

[Xi:Xi]

oh fuck yessss....

i do realise that maths and music are inter-related but you, as with bands like dillinger and meshuggah, really just fuck that relationship into the 9th dimension (somewhere in those squiggly planes, anyhow)

fuck man... hard to review this one... i'm worried, because, like Arctic, this demands a spaz-psycho vox ripping through it. And, like Arctic... it will take fuckin' ages to nail each separate section! might be worth a crack though...

kept me goin' from start to finish... really interetsing and fat and mad D=<

PenguinBomb responds:

Haha I wish you absurd amounts of luck, this song has some super beastly freaky patterns in it :p