Listen To The 80s Heavy Metal Song By XmafaX At Looperman.com

As All of my esteemed colleagues have said already I agree with. Man I love me some priest and this has echoes of that, as well as Warren DiMartini of Ratt, and some of the NWOHM sounds from my youth. Work with this and add some guitar parts to it this has some nice potential. Nice work!
Steve

Nice!

Paulo,
Another axe grinder...fine playing. Impressive. During the riff you repeat during the 4:50 area, why not add a 5th guitar harmony like Maiden?
Mark.

Hey this is pretty cool! I agree that it has a bit of the Ratt style and tone to it! Early in the second half I noticed what sounded like actual clipping on the master like you exceeded 0dB, that would be worth fixing for sure. The bass solo was quite cool, and reminded me of a more 90's thing! Overall an enjoyable tune!

I love the raw sound. Being slightly under produced gives that closeness to the listener. The grinding rhythm guitar and riffs tantalizes my ear. Thanks! :)

The title caught my eye. What can i say, the 80's brought out some of the best music ever!
Yeah i agree with everyone to shorten the instrumental by 2 minutes tops. But i love your guitar solo.
Yeah that end synths seems to be out of place, you could try another 80's type synth and see how it complements the track.
Then again, this is you expressing your soul, rock on brother!

Hi. This is good but can be improved. First problem I hear is that the drums and guitar don't sound at all like they're playing in the same space together.

Quite simply: the drums have quite a bit of reverb and the guitar none. A simple fix would probably just be to add some reverb to the guitar. Personally, I don't like instruments all to be dry but then I make far out, psychedelic stuff so I guess would say that.

2:56 the guitar returns in a really abrupt, awkward sort of way.

I agree with the previous comment that this track should be shortened by probably about 2 mins. And there are also timing problems in various parts.

Sorry if it just sounds like I'm giving a list of complaints! Some tracks don't have so many 'errors' but the playing is really boring. This is good playing but lots of things need to be tightened up.

As Danke said, that end synth part is also strange.

Good work and I hope you can fix some of these issues.

As far as criticisms go, there's not much I need to say that these guys haven't already said.

I will say though, this has some sweet traces of Ratt and Priest. You definitely caught the essence of the era. Keep it up, man!

V.

The song writing does not seem to be the issue at all. As said before it's timing. Very impressive playing ability, just not worked out quite enough. The bass break is very out of time. If this is a live drummer you are using, have him re record the drums to a click and have everyone play off of that, or each use a click. It's my best friend.

Very impressed with the writing and the sweet guitar. Excited to hear it with improvements.

Evan

It's really heavy and I like it, If I was collatborating with yopu I would shorten it by about half, so 2:30-300 minute song with your bass solo much sooner. THe other thing I would do, is not have a chord change when your main riff stats at 1:00.at 3:00, it sounds weird like the new phrase just "starts" out of nowhewre maybe out of time. I really like the guitar solo! is that You man! Your guitar definitely rocks. The second solo with tapping is WAY out of time though.

Yeah man you got the 80s hairband sound nailed.
I absolutely loved the era and there were so many really outstanding bands and guitar players. Regarding this track, of course you know there's issues as Danke and luk points out. But really its all superficial stuff, mostly regarding timing from the playing aspect and then balance and leveling on the recording side. This is a very cool track, I really dig the manevolent chords, the overall structure is good, love the break bass line and the lead break is dynamic and full of some tasty licks and harmonics. The only thing you need to work on dude is your chops. You have to get that timing exact or damn close to it. Its what really defines a lead guitarist. The notes are there bro just not where they should be at times and it comes off as being sloppy. One suggestion would be, on your recordings at least, don't overplay. Stay within your limits. the end result will be better.
I'm wanting to hear more though. One of my favorite guitarists in the 80's was Warren DiMartini of Ratt fame. You really remind me of his style.

I'm loving this, has that real 80s feel.
Maybe you're a bit off tempo on some parts, although it's too kick ass to care. I like it that it's catchy but not repetitive.
Maybe it's me but the drums are wayy too much in the background, this track would be highly improved if the drums were more punchy and up to date EQd with a have kick bass but it's all personal preference , i still dig a lot what you've done here.
Cheers man, keep it going!

Hmmm...dear Paulo!

First of all, this is (or could be) a good song...the riffs and the drum tone is outstanding...fits with the title...at around 2.40 that bass break is not punctual, I think...that leads are awesome but too overgained...get that main down a bit...and at the end, there is a synth part I really don't understang, I mean the chords you play...a bit chaotic...
This is my summary, hope you don't take it offensively, I really didn't do like this (so partly, I mean)
But this is really good and could be much better...
All the best, Danke