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I've been meaning to check this out for a couple of days but have been busy with my own shit.

I listened through your demo, but I'm not usually a huge drone or ambient metal guy, so I don't think my feedback here would be worth much (the best I could do would be something like "it sounded spooky, this part was the spookiest") as I don't really have much of an ear for this area.

I certainly preferred it to the terrible mumbley SoundCloud rap that played after it for some reason.

Maybe the bump from this comment will bring this to the attention of someone on the sight who knows what they're talking about.

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19 hours ago, Will said:

I've been meaning to check this out for a couple of days but have been busy with my own shit.

I listened through your demo, but I'm not usually a huge drone or ambient metal guy, so I don't think my feedback here would be worth much (the best I could do would be something like "it sounded spooky, this part was the spookiest") as I don't really have much of an ear for this area.

I certainly preferred it to the terrible mumbley SoundCloud rap that played after it for some reason.

Maybe the bump from this comment will bring this to the attention of someone on the sight who knows what they're talking about.

Thanks for listening!  I have no idea why rap would play afterwards.  I will have to look into it.

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2 hours ago, Will said:

Maybe it's random. You'd recon It'd be better to automatically play something with shared keywords or something.

I have found that I really do not like soundcloud.  There appears to be a lot of bots on it, and I do not particularly like that it just plays random stuff.  I think that I will just have to transition over to youtube.

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10 hours ago, Balor said:

I have found that I really do not like soundcloud.  There appears to be a lot of bots on it, and I do not particularly like that it just plays random stuff.  I think that I will just have to transition over to youtube.

Why not Bandcamp?

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My two cents: Bandcamp is fantastic once you have a finished product, even a decent-quality demo. The streaming works very well, but the site is geared towards selling downloads and it's more of a space for official releases. YouTube and SoundCloud are better for single tracks and less finished "work in progress" demos, stuff that you can post to share and then just take down once it's no longer relevant. I dislike SoundCloud for several of the reasons mentioned, and I think the social aspect of that site is poorly executed; I've been using YouTube and Bandcamp for years with no complaints.

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