Devastus's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Vomit Piss]

Brrlbrlrbl

This is good shit, nice riffs man. So is it vomit piss coming outta your dick, or piss vomit coming from the mouth? The latter would feel nice on the taste buds.

As for what I think:
the hi-hat sounds pretty low quality, I'd suggest you to change that. The kick's a bit underpowered at the moment, sounds more like flapping than a kick drum, I'd check into that. Also, pan the drums around like a real drumset so it'll sound like one. I would probably also EQ the lows off from the guitars a bit to get a clearer mix.

There's a fuckton of constructive criticism for you. Cheers!

GoreBastard responds:

Cheers man! I agree about the kick. Listening back it sounds pretty shitty. I'll have a play with the EQ and stuff. Thanks man, this helped. The next one should sound awesome!

[Xeno Random 11]

You should continue with this.

Mystical intro. It had great potential right from the beginning, and after 0:31 it exploded into an awesome downpicking sequence. I liked it quite much.

I'm a dumbshit pissdrinker and fived it :)))) We should finish a collab someday.

[Dirty Cries]

Damn straight.

I notice you've raised the volume on the guitars. People can finally hear what you're playing, which is important considering you have alot of badass riffs going. And now I really like the mix! Resembles quite alot like something back from the 80's, which is awesome.

The vocals rock, I like the roughness you have, I usually have to get into a total rasp-mode to get mine to sound anything like that :P The lyrics are pretty straightforward, and damn, it should be, humanity is fucking itself over from time to time again.

Thank you for the song. Five'd! --- 4.32 / 5.00 (+ 0.063)

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks man. I've tried to apply a lot of your advice. :)
You fucking rule, dude.

[I Hate Tuesdays Motherfuckers]

Unholy Agreeing-ness

Tuesday fucking swallowed donkey balls. And it will continue to do so until the very end of time. Luckily this song kicks ass. I still like pretty much all of your vocal styles :P

I wanna hear the guitar more man, you had whipped out some nice harmonics n' shit there. Try lifting 'em up, same goes for the vocals, currently the drums overpower quite alot.

Rock the fuck out. Fived - 4.27 / 5.00 (+ 0.12).

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

Thanks bro. Give er another listen. I didn't have much time to muck around as I just felt like doing it quickly today. Good to see you around dude. :) Thanks again.

[Note 2 Self]

Real tight stuff!

Really groovy bass, accompanied with a catchy melody and a tight, pumpy mix gets my attention here. I also like how you put the vocals into the background, rather giving more power into the soundscape than trying to act like they mean something (especially when you're singing about singing random thing :P).

Let's keep it short, I simply don't see anything needing to be fixed here. A full 10/10 and a five.

[In the Land of Seven Sounds]

I love this song.

I can't criticize anything here. In my opinion the song is pretty much perfect in every way, I can listen to it more than 20 times over and it still doesn't get boring :P
The beginning is really solid, takes you with it right off the bat.

That's all I can say. Definitely 10/10 and a five ( 4.18 / 5.00 (+ 0.0027) ).

sorohanro responds:

Thanx for the review.

[The End of Autumn]

Damn...

Really strong emotions. Use of instruments is really good, but if I'd have to criticize something, I would try to spread the instruments around the stereo channel some more, right now there's little space left for dynamics. But that's me being nitpicky, the piece is amazing nevertheless.

10/10 and a five ( 4.26 / 5.00 (+ 0.023) ).

[Dark World Adagio Extended]

Really nice going with this.

While being quite ambientic, the song pretty much took me with it right from the start.

I really like the soundscapes. The mixing is spot on; alot of variety between sections while still maintaining a rather soundwall-ish approach. And six and half minutes man! It gets hard (read: takes alot of time) for me to make a complicated song that's over 3 minutes, let alone doubling that amount :P

I will be surprised if no one will ask you to use it in a Flash submission. This would be solid gold for a cinematic soundtrack. Be proud of yourself.

10/10 and a five ( 4.26 / 5.00 (+ 0.030) ).

popraz responds:

Thank you very much ! Well, I usually don't like making long songs, because sometimes length breaks the focus of the main ideas, but in this case, I worked on it for a long time. I found that doing a song, then leaving it for a few days and then working on it some more helps. For this song, I worked on and off for about a month. Once again, thank you for the review, and I'm glad you liked it so much.

[Universal Collapse-Demo-Reich]

Really nice

The guitar riffs are nasty as fuck. The drums beat the living shit out of me, very nice job.

I think you should lift the guitars volume up a notch though. The drums drown them a bit. Other than that, very nice. I'm awaiting for the full version anxiously.

10/10 and a five ( 3.84 / 5.00 (+ 0.013) ).

Eternalreich responds:

Thanks a bunch brutha. was definatly the craziest drum prog ive done in a while. lost the session so it has to be redone.

[FistsOfStone(deathkllr84&bard)]

Sweet bloody entrails!

We share the same appetite!

This is brutal. I'd kinda want the vocals to be a little bit louder, though that's nitpicking, since you can still hear the words clearly :P

Let's stamp a 10/10 and a five on it.

TheBardOfBlasphemy responds:

lol... mmm... guts for dinner!

yeah, the vox man... i did mention this in the notes... the problem is that in different setups, the centre channel (vox channel etc) will be louder/quieter... I've found that in places with poor stereo separation (biggest offender = computer speakers) the centre channel is too loud. In setups with good stereo separation (headphones being the extreme of this) the centre channel is a bit quieter.

At the end of all the stress, i went for somewhere in the middle.

Cheers for the review!