Holy balls! This is so fucking good! Excited to see you with Fleshgod and Septic Flesh. Your performances are so casual in this video, it almost makes me angry at how easy you make it look.
I don't mind the symphonic elements, but the mix on the album is terrible. The symphonics keep clashing with the riffs, and it just becomes a clusterfuck of noise. That said, they would sound too much like HoP if they went back to their old sound. I hope they someday realize that the symphonic elements should be in the background developing the atmosphere rather than being the main driving force or competing for attention with the riffs.
Zin Skymerald I kinda agree. The songs sound fantastic live, but on the album they just sound like a mess. There is no dynamic range, and everything is equally loud. Makes for a very messy musical landscape.
***** Yea exactly, I mean don't get me wrong I love FA and I've seen them live and their fantastic and all but the symphonic elements keep clashing with the actual music to the point where it's a mess, The symphonic elements really needed to be mixed to the background especially with "Labyrinth" where they took it even further which made it very difficult enjoy the actual music. I mean really the only things you hear on "Labyrinth" is drums, vocals, symphonic overbearing the actual guitar work.
CrushingGroovesByAlexBlackFromSuffer lol the only thing in common is fast drumming lol. Heres some fun facts for ya . Francesco Paoli started this band playing guitar and did vocals on first Hour of penance album and i think maby the second cant remember. He then began drumming for Fleshgod after only three years of learning and then left this band when Fleshgod took off. So yes they would sound similar sound for instance oracles, sounds alot like hour of penance i think.
I see the bassist playing, and the drummer hitting the cymbals, but I can barely hear them. The mixing on this song wasn't done very well :( the Guitars and singer just overpower pretty much everything else, except the snare and toms. It ruined my enjoyment of this song a bit.
Dude, this is not the video from the recording of the song. They simply played the song and put the audio file over it. If you listen very carefully (especially to the drums) you will notice that the drum playthrough is not the same.
Dario Biagiotti And... your point is? Doesn't change the fact the recording done on it was total shit, and the video only serves to highlight the bad production / mixing. The fact that its a studio recording placed over a video of them playing the song, and the studio recording itself is missing half the stuff going on with a visual reference is pretty bad. Which sucks because the song seems like it would be pretty good. Want good Production examples? Listen to Thantifaxath, Gorguts, Dillinger Escape Plan, Triptykon, Inter Arma, Neurosis, Agrimonia, Insomnium, or Scale the Summit just to name a few. Not comparing the musical styles or the music itself, but the quality of the Mixing and Production. Again not knocking the Music, I'm knocking the shit job on the mixing.
+Al M. I guess it's not until you start mixing that you get the facts about what you think is wrong with the bass. Let me explain it this way (and please, don't misundertand me, it is not my intention to say you are wrong or right). In Extreme/Brutal/whateverwayyouliketocallit Metal, the bass usually tends to get some distortion which in fact is somehow close in sound to that of the guitar. The idea (just guessing) is for the bass and guitar to end up sounding as one, that gives more punch to the strings. Don't get me wrong, you can in fact listen to the sound of the bass, (probably not in the frequencies you think you'll hear it) but in the mix it's function is more about getting to fill the bass (as in freq.) spectrum than getting in front of the mix. If you could hear to the mix withou the bass you will totally perceive the absence of it. And if you hear the bass and drums tracks you could also feel all that underlying frequency spectrum covered by both the bass and drums. I don't know about the cymbal thing you mentioned, sometimes cymbals can be that basterd, you hear them too loud or the opposite. They are mixed in a complete separate bus and therefore they sound on a differente zone of the map (think of it as on the upper corners of your headphones/speakers) than of all the other parts of the drums. It's function is to add some spark. I really would have never trusted this shit i'm saying to you if I had not mixed a single metal song in my life. Excuse me for my english, not my mother language, blablabla. Really like the video guys and you have a style i personally enjoy a lot.
