Metal Reviews

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Borrowed Time is a NWOBHM/DOOM Type heavy metal band. This is the first demo. This is my old band, my brother took over on guitary but my buddy JP and I wrote the songs, with the exception of the manilla road cover.

It's awesome. Give it a listen.

Since people want to apathetic asses , I'll give it a listen. It's downloading now.

As I listen:

This is very good. I won't comment on the production too much since it is a demo. It is good though, needs some meat around 100-200hz and a bit less in the vocals around 3-6Khz. The Highs should be rolled off a little more so it isn't quite as airy.

Songwriting is good. The guitars could use some 5th harmonic action

To me, the singer should be singing in a lower toned voice so it isn't quite so "lazy" sounding or sharp. This is easy to do. Add more diaphram air and lower the voicebox and keep it there. When the air comes from the diaphram heavily and the voice brought down a little, it gives the singer that aura of really putting a lot of passion into it AND it will be much easier to hit notes and hold them forever. Virtually every singer I can think of does it like that even if their voice sounds high pitched. His "falsetto" will sound much richer and he'll be able to hit higher notes too.


If you can get the stems, I'll remix it for you out of the kindness of my heart since I enjoy working with audio whenever I can

Thanks for the advice. There are actually two separate vocalists, neither of which has any experience or training with vocal duties. My buddy JP handles the main lower vocals and I would chip in with the high end vocals. I'm the guitar player as well so that is my main focus. I think we did pretty good for not being singers. Consequently, the new singer for Borrowed Time is the ex bass player of a power metal band in Michigan called Miles Beyond. He's much better from what I'm told.

You know, I almost said that. If he sang the cleaner stuff the same way as the falsetto stuff (the technique, not the tone), he'd sound much better. Yeah, you do alright if you were doing all the high stuff.


You know sometimes I think singing is much harder than I think it is. I used to be TERRIBLE and everyone that heard those songs I put up three years ago knows that, but I was throat singing because I foolishly was into metallica early and that is exactly how james does it. Anyway, sometimes I forget I've been doing this seriously for about 6 years now and even longer when I was not serious and didn't think it was really possible.

No real singer should ever be emulating James Hetfield ever, unfortunately, that is exactly what I did.


You're well on your way if you want to keep it up. It takes a ton of practice and you might not have the stamina to learn like some people that can go 8 hours without it straining them at all.

Seriously, go torrent Lucas Burgh's perfect pitch program and if you can get where you hear the note instead of the pitch, you'll be a great singer since your technique is pretty good already.

I'll give you hint though, whenever you tune a guitar and it is dead on pitch, there is always a ringing kind of sound to the notes. This sound becomes more breathy in vocals. That is what to listen for, not the sharpness or flatness. I get notes of songs wrong all the time because sometimes I hear a root to fifth as a root to fourth and vice versa.

(but note, that is EASY mistake since a fourth and fifth are inverse relationships and they are the most common note combinations in rock music by far. To further explain If I go from E3 to B3, that's 7 steps ascending, but If I go from E4 to A3, that is also 7 steps, but descending, The other way they are 5 steps apart. I hope this helps too, but I don't know how much theory you know)

Good luck. If I can do it and Ace Frehley can do it, anyone can, end of story. Sorry about the length.