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6 hours ago, UNURAKUM said:

Do you think I play the guitar slowly?

No, not slowly. I think the production and especially the drums sounded amateurish to the point of making it hard to listen to and take seriously. I had no real qualms with the music itself as raw black metal is one of my favorite sub-genres. But there are limits to how raw something can be and still be listenable. So I think you're on the right track, but keep practicing.

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7 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Нет, не медленно. Я думаю, что продакшн и особенно барабаны звучали дилетантски до такой степени, что их было трудно слушать и воспринимать всерьез. У меня не было особых сомнений в самой музыке, поскольку сырой блэк-метал - один из моих любимых поджанров. Но есть пределы тому, насколько сырым что-то может быть и при этом оставаться доступным для прослушивания. Так что, я думаю, ты на правильном пути, но продолжай практиковаться.

amateurish - after all, this is the very vividness that paradise should be in raw sound. if studio drums were playing there, it would not be as correct as it should be in raw true black metal. a true black can be written on a lap with a variety of children's toys and a balalaika, just to sound lively and raw - so that the listener gets into the atmosphere that prevailed during the recording

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Нет. I love raw black metal as much or probably more than almost anyone else here. But there's definitely a limit to how amateurish it can be and still let anyone except the artist himself want to listen to it. The best raw black metal sounds raw as fuck to the listener but it's been carefully crafted to sound that way down to the finest details. There's an art to gettig rbm to sound just right, they don't just turn on a recorder in their bedroom, slap their thighs, call that "drums" and hope it will all sound alright once they put the guitars on it. Because it won't. Not saying you need to go pay for an expensive studio, lots of people manage to record shit right on their computers and it sounds pretty decent. I'm no recording engineer, but however you're micing the instruments or whatever needs improvement, especially the drums. But keep trying, brother. I respect the passion and the desire.

And shit man, I didn't know I could type all that in cyrillic.

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2 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Нет. Я люблю сырой блэк-метал так же сильно, или, возможно, даже больше, чем кто-либо другой здесь. Но определенно есть предел тому, насколько любительской она может быть, и все же пусть ее захочет послушать кто угодно, кроме самого исполнителя. Лучший сырой блэк-метал звучит чертовски сыро для слушателя, но он был тщательно обработан, чтобы звучать именно так, вплоть до мельчайших деталей. Есть искусство заставить rbm звучать правильно, они не просто включают магнитофон в своей спальне, хлопают себя по бедрам, называют это "барабанами" и надеются, что все это зазвучит хорошо, как только они поставят на него гитары. Потому что этого не произойдет. Не говорю, что вам нужно платить за дорогую студию, многие люди умудряются записывать дерьмо прямо на своих компьютерах, и это звучит довольно прилично. Я не звукорежиссер, но как бы ты ни настраивал микрофон, инструменты или что-то еще нуждается в улучшении, особенно барабаны. Но продолжай пытаться, брат. Я уважаю страсть и желание.

И черт возьми, я не знал, что могу печатать все это кириллицей.

I think that the meaning of humanity on this planet is the reproduction and filling of the Earth with DIFFERENT people. in music, I think the same meaning - we are looking for new, interesting-sounding music for our ears and brain - to feel something new, to discover something new... thirteen years ago, when I was just beginning to understand this whole thing with black metal, I realized one thing - you need to find your own sound, the sound for which they will come to you for a new CD, a new clip, a new sound... BUT in the style of what it was then, the first times of listening. and that's what we have now - there are hundreds of thousands of bands playing black metal on the Internet, but by sound they are all divided into three categories and after listening to two such groups you realize that somewhere you have already heard this. and then I wrote my own music with not cool drums and generally a guitar and that's it - now they are looking for such a sound and they don't find it, because only you yourself know how to make such a sound =))) I think those teenagers who got tired of the trendy death metal sound and decided to make their own sound made black metal the way we remember it twenty years later (I mean Burzum. Darkthrone. Immortal. satyricon. meyhem), and now I, like everyone, have such a chance - and I used it - I made my own sound 😃

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