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G'Day and welcome. I hope you enjoy your time here and become a regular contributor. We have a "promote your band" subforum so please keep any future self promotion to that section. Again welcome to MetalForum. If you have any issues please don't hesitate to PM either myself or one of the other moderators we'll be happy to help if we can.

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Hey Rob, I checked out the video you posted of your band, the one you put in the Recommendations For Good Power Metal Bands. I'm replying to it here in your Intro post against the possibility that it might get moved. Not that I thought it was especially bad mind you, it is just that it is in the wrong place. It had ought to have gone in the "promote your own band section" Relentless was telling you about in his welcome. Relentless is one of the moderators here, and thought he seems polite, he is absolutely mad with power. No match for BAN's famous newbie crushing beard hammer of course, but I predict that Relentless will be the point man on your case, so there is that.

In point of fact I listened to two of your lyric videos and a video of you playing live as well. I would defiantly turn out to see you play if ever you were in striking distance. I like the bass lines in your music, and I like the balance of the instruments (I'm a low quality bass player who wishes he could play that well). You seem to be getting some good production value, and it seems like professional recording and capable if conventional image control. It feels like work to me a little, to type about your band and share my thoughts. You might consider trying to get me on the pay role, but let me warn you that I'm not apt to be interested in the long run. Why you ask? Well... for starters I would ask in return "are you are aware that your lyrics are essentially long threads of cliches strung together with out regard to the kind of syllabification necessary to make them singable?"  I understand that you are not native speakers of English, but I'm not talking about grammar issues here, but subject issues. The English could be a lot shabbier and that would almost be a good thing, but the content needs work, and the cliched nature of the writing is too much even for power metal. I'd recommend building little boxes for the cliches in the first part of any given stanza that you can place the Cliche in at the far end and give it a little place to be so that it is not packed in with cliched neighbors on either side in much the way sardines find themselves packed tightly in cans only to stink after three days of sitting out on the counter*.

This is a social forum though, so that's enough business talk. I want you to notice that I've put way more effort into you than you have put into the whole forum up to this point. I hope I've not made you sore, and want to point out that I like your band and think it's worth talking about. Also I want you to self promote in the proper place, and I want you to contribute more of your self here and give us some more information about your life and interest in metal. 

*That is one free example of the valuable tidbit that could fill your inbox for a small monthly fee, or you can pay by the line and cancel any time if you would find that more convenient.

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