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The V - 'Grim Philosophy' (Original Metalcore/Death metal song)


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Hi guys! My name is The V.

Just released an original composition titled 'Grim Philospohy' ! I make all the music and do the vocals and production myself. Its a metalcore/death metal song I guess! Not getting into genre debates :P

Please listen to it! Feedback would be appreciated!
 


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Not bad, some cool stuff in there. I'm not that familiar with metalcore, but I don't think that too many major intervals, passages or arpeggios go that well with "unclean" metal vocals (which seems to be the case with your verse riff), the section before and after the breakdown are cool (nothing against your breakdown in particular, they're just not really my thing in general). Really like the pitch harmonic tone and, of course the jazzy high hat parts that pop up in parts as well as some of the double kick parts and groove/industrial-ish rhythm parts . Not a huge fan of the clean vocal tone.

 

I'm guessing that aside from Slayer and Trivium you also like some Disturbed and maybe Lamb of God?

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Thanks for replying, man! Lot of your feedback is kinda consistent with what i have heard from others too! Can you explain the first point? The one about passages or intervals not going with unclean vocals. And any tips on how to get the clean vocals sounding better?

And yeahIm a big Trivium, Slayer, LOG fan! Also dig KSE, Metallica, Scar Symmetry, Slipknot

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16 hours ago, thev_666 said:

Thanks for replying, man! Lot of your feedback is kinda consistent with what i have heard from others too! Can you explain the first point? The one about passages or intervals not going with unclean vocals. And any tips on how to get the clean vocals sounding better?

And yeahIm a big Trivium, Slayer, LOG fan! Also dig KSE, Metallica, Scar Symmetry, Slipknot

The point about intervals is that, to me anyway, unclean vocals sound intrinsically aggressive and harsh sounding, mixing that with something happy sounding like certain passages from a major scale seems a little out of place.

I would have no idea on improving vocal tone whatsoever, least of all that of clean vocals.

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