Ok brotherman, It's surely ultra nice. The vibe u went for in this sub is great, however yes, imo imho me personally, all I was waiting for the entire length of the sub - is for guitars to actually get fat. Sure mix is nice overall, but the guitar tone is just not there to fully embrace those ripandtear vibes, maybe is the room u left at bottom-end of the mix for kicks when usually u'd expect palm-muted heavy chugs take that range and amplify every strum even with more power.
Still one of the best submissions this time, verygj.
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Baloth - DOOM-Inspired OST's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #2 | 4.046 | 4.046 |
| Execution | #2 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Listenability | #2 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Innovation | #2 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Uniqueness | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Correlation to Theme | #5 | 4.111 | 4.111 |
| Composition | #6 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Heya folks, happy new year and excited to be participating again in the first jam of the year for this group!
Both prompts were very exciting, but I was immediately drawn to the "colossus" prompt due to the lightning imagery - striking the mountain and harvesting the hillside using lightning bolts, rusted machinery, ancient yore, that sorta thing.
I had been listening to PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard since it came out and I loved the tonic of B being used for a lot of the riffs. With that in my pocket, DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal's soundtracks, and a smidge of Jeff Beck (Earthquake, in particular) I set about writing something in a similar vein - kickass music (with industrial, noisy sound design) to capture the combat of the Slayer versus a mountainous Baloth. This time, I wanted to actually do the riffs by hand with my guitar, which I'm very bad at, so it was a good learning experience.
Definitely went ear blind a few times during this process - but learned an awful lot about transients, automation, effects chains, reverb sends, and more. If this makes you think of a lumbering blood-hungry beast firing off thunderous attacks while combatting the Slayer from DOOM, then I did my job!
Hope you folks enjoy it!~
Composition:
- FL Studio 25 - Soundpaint (8Dio) libraries - Cymatics free samples (ambience, some percussion and loops) - A lot of other free samples / cut-up loops that I had laying around my hardrive - Guitar amp is Archetype: Gojira X - Guitar is a Harley Benton SC500 BK Vintage with humbuckers - main synth basses and leads are created in Vital
How did you Innovate? (Complete later if you need to submit on time)
Complex effect chains, automation, real guitar playing (shitty but adjusted to sound nice), learned extensive sidechaining / compressor / transient manipulation tactics.
Link to Streaming Service
https://soundcloud.com/nova-607800663/bloodthunder-baloth
DAW Screenshot - Demonstrate that this is your own work
Included in project
Discord Tag
nova4408




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