FateModified's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Awaken The Beast]

Great stuff! I like the "monk humming" (I'm not sure what the correct term is) throughout a lot of the song. And it's great how the drums speed up with lots of double bass pedal at 1:13. It's a very dynamic and melodic song with a sense of evil rising.

I love the solo stuff the organ is doing throughout the song. The only thing I can find to complain about is that I'm not much into the solo groove at the following places in the song:
1:43 to 1:49
2:43 to 2:49
2:55 to 3:01
To me, it just seems a bit out of place with the rest of the song. I know Dream Theater inspires a lot of your work. I love Dream Theater too, but I have the same problem with a lot of their songs where the solo/melody just changes to something that to me seems a bit weird and stands out for attention drawing away from the rest of the song. But that's just my view, and I know there are a lot of Dream Theater fans out there, so sorry for nitpicking.

Awesome song, I love it! :D

Wilhiemthe2nd responds:

Thank you very much!
The proper term is Choir. :P

Though, personally I like that solo groove, it serves as a good buffer to the Chorus, and build for the ending. But hey, to each their own. ;)
And yes, Dream Theater is a major influence, but theres not much in the DT department here. No Odd time signatures, a standard song arrangement, having the song shorter than 10 minutes... XD

[THe Man Upstairs]

So you have a two story house, and your grandpa lives on your second floor? You should check on him sometime to make sure that he is just sleeping and hasn't kicked the bucket, lol.

I'm not into punk much, but this sounds pretty good. Good job!

[You have 10 seconds]

This song is beautiful and definitely cinematic. I love it! The only reason why I'm giving it 4.5 stars instead of 5 is because the transition from powerful back to peaceful at around 1:05 to 1:07 seems a bit awkward. I think cutting the powerful part suddenly and then drawing back into the peaceful can work well for this song if it is done in a more dramatic way, for example, by adding a drum on that last note rather than just a stop on the guitar. The way it is, you can hear the reverb effect from the guitar once it cuts off, and that just doesn't sound quite right. Just my thought though. To me the rest of the song sounds perfect, and it would definitely make for a great theme song to an emotionally charged movie. Well done!

One of my new favorites, btw

LunyAlex responds:

Thank you very much. It means a lot. I'll definitely take a look at that transition, try to smooth things out a bit.

[Next Time]

I really like the way the strings build up in the song, and the intro that begins at 0:33 and builds is really cool. This song has an ambience with a sense of solitude and combined anxiety feel to it. It's great, but the ending does come a bit abruptly. Still, it's one of my new favorites. Great job!

[The Whistler]

Really good song. 5 stars.

[Evil Bunnies]

This is a really good song for a video game. It has good melodies, good beat, and I really like the sliding voices as well. One of my new favorites!

GdabZ responds:

Those sliding voices gave me a lot of work ;) Thanks

[Meth II]

The guitar sounds quite perfect to me in this song. Overall, the whole song sounds great and of very good quality. I like the 5/4 time signature. I don't know why, but when I started playing guitar many years ago I found that most of the riffs I came up with were 5/4 time. I haven't ever found out what songs were influencing me to use that timing. So I made a mental note to try to avoid 5/4 in my stuff, since I thought maybe it was too weird for people to listen to. But this song proves that I was wrong. From now on, I'll be less afraid to compose with rarely used time signatures. You pulled it off nicely. Great song!

[We Sell Robots]

I think this sounds like it would fit well for a flash game in a scene inside a robot store. It has a very innocent quality to it, a bit child-like in a way.

I think the section from 1:21 to 1:52 could use a little more variation because it seems a bit repetitive at that part to me.

My favorite part is when the melody does the short little 2-second arpeggio thing at 1:19 to 1:21 and again at 2:15 to 2:17. If you can figure a way to expand on that short little bit and work it into other parts of the song, I think it would be good. But I'm no expert. Just my thought :D

Wilhiemthe2nd responds:

Thank you very much! and yeah, that repetitiveness. oops ^^;
I might put some more work on this a bit later.
Thanks for the feedback!

[Desperate Battle]

I really like the complexity in this song as well as your others. I really like the fast melodies and the way the song has many different variations throughout. I look forward to hearing new works from you. You now have 9 fans instead of 8, lol :D

Wilhiemthe2nd responds:

Thanks for the follow!
Back when I made this, DnB was a very new concept to me, and normally people would look at me like "wat r u do" when it comes to this song. Everything is busy in this song, Drums, Bass, Harmonies, and Melody... amazing how I pulled this off.
Retrospect aside, thanks a lot for the review! I do really like reviews n' such.

I typically engage in Mathcore with various additional Sub-genres slapped on from time to time, but I don't post much music on NG.
Thinking I might change that though, we'll see ;)
In additional news that is unrelated, I just dooed another thing

[Fallen]

Well, I don't know how to play piano either. I have played around with one from time to time over the past few years, but never learned the correct way. So I'm probably not the best person to review a piano song, but from an artistic perspective I really like this song. I like the way you were able to put many things in that are unexpected such as tempo changes, volume changes, arpeggios, etc. It makes the song very interesting. It does sound sad to me, and I think it does a very good job at expressing the feeling of loss. When a person feels a great loss, sadness is often accompanied by overpowering feelings of anger that can appear suddenly as if out of nowhere. So I think the way that the piano gets loud at 2:25 and erupts through an ascending and descending arpeggio evokes this feeling of anger that is often felt with loss. Great job. Your songs express a richness of art that is not found really often these days. Keep it up!

Wilhiemthe2nd responds:

Thanks a lot for the review!
And I don't know about that creative stuff, there are some -crazy- people out there. ^^;
But I appreciate it very much! I take to heart my goal to make a career in the art of music, not to make a career out of being an artist of music.

Ya know, that Art > Money bullcrud.