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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 4193333" data-attributes="member: 21833">OK, just listened to Rise Ov Thor and Splayed Before a False God.  And yeah, the recording quality is pure junk, but I somewhat expected that.The Good:1. Your Vox.  Very sharp, especially for such poor sound quality.  Some coaching on breathing techniques and warmups and you could be impressive.  Bravo on your growl, your razor scream is also pretty good.  Based on this, I'd be emphasising your growl in most tracks.  Heed Thunderfoot and Danny's advice, there are few things more downright impressive to me than someone who can deliver both brutality and clarity at the same time (Corpsegrinder and Dallas Toler-Wade come to mind)2. Guitars.  Very good work, tight and heavy riffing.  Some more focus in the solos would be helpful; unless you're a god - with the rep to go with it - like Kerry King or Karl Sanders, noodling ISN'T a good thing.The Bad.1. Cohesion.  You're a young band, but you need to work on this.  The drummer seems overenthusiastic, and the bass is all over the shop.2.  Sound Quality.  If you're gonna put together a proper demo, get the acousitcs and quality up.  As T-Foot said, the drums are always gonna be loud, and have a tendency to drown out just about everything else.  I'm not a mixer or producer, but I know what I like as a metalhead, and overdrumming drives me nuts more often than not*As for the songs themselves, they were worth a listen.  Similar to Thunderfoot, as a producer/rep, I'd listen to these and put you under the file "check in X months".  Get some tight focus and make yourselves stand out, and then I'd be willing to talk.Mad props on getting this stuff out there though.  Good luck with it!*About the only things that I've ever listened too where the drums were uncomfortably high in the mix that I liked were "The Essential Salts" on Nile's Ithyphallic, because the trained octopus they had behind the kit on that track was so good (sorry, I don't believe it was George, since no human should be capable of that!), and CoF's Cruelty and the Beast, because the songs were so amazing I could live with Nick's work being way too high.  Besides, Cradle of Filth's production is always terrible it seems.</blockquote>

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