Darker Side - My First Song Rebooted

[jonlint]

Hi all,

In December 2013 I wrote my first half decent song "Darker Side". I had a real drum recording I made many years ago laying around and retracked the song. I'm interested in how this stacks up after all that time.

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-linton-3/darker-side

[Dimaension X]

Very classic Savatage (or early Ratt?) - I think the crunch rhythm guitars can come up a bit, and the clean guitars are a bit loud. The drums sound great, love the vocal harmonies.

Let's hear some more of these! Anything up on YouTube?

[sammydix]

I heard the exact same thing as DX with the guitars. The drums sounded great though. Thought I heard a tiny touch of J.Priest too.

[toleolu]

I'd buy it, love the guitar work.

[jonlint]

Originally Posted by Dimaension X

Very classic Savatage (or early Ratt?) - I think the crunch rhythm guitars can come up a bit, and the clean guitars are a bit loud. The drums sound great, love the vocal harmonies.

Let's hear some more of these! Anything up on YouTube?

Hi there,

Thanks for the compliments! In terms of more stuff like this, here is another "classic metal" type song I wrote, which I donated to a project band with lyrics in an old Frisian dialect (old north German dialect):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMy2L3epmM

I produced the song and played the guitars.

Since about 2014/2015, I shifted my music writing to grunge and moved away from metal. Here is a collection of some of my demos, mostly grunge influenced:

https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-lint...ton-the-grunge

Hope you enjoy.

[ashcat_lt]

This is good.



I always want the guitars louder. You know how you know when it's actually loud? When the guitars are louder than the drums.


But that's my problem and I don't think it has to be yours. It sounds good as is.



If I'm gonna nitpick, I want a little more variation to the hat. (AND)I appreciate that you kept the crashes down, but there are actually times when I feel like I want a crash, but it's hidden behind a half-hat and/or something else. Like at the end, the crashes might as well not even be there.