The Fatality (fatality.xm)

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Wed 18th Sep 2002, rated 6 / 10.

Flyingh and Merlin are 2 German trackers and at least at the time of this song was composed, they belonged to the group called "Fatal Progress". After listening this song pretty many times, I think that these guys can come up with something.=) The beginning ain't that promising. A pianopattern almost broke my head, and when it ended and I started to live again, it began all over.=/ But! What kind of man can't survive from this? Actually the song gets pretty nice quite soon after that pianosection. A nice steady drumline behind, lovely sampled female choir in the air and a deep synth in the background sounds really good to me.=) Then begins the string-section. Drums bang and strings that sounds ok are in the lead here. Then again a tiny point of choir and then the song changes again. This time into that annoying pianopart again. And then the song begins to end... Well... Er, now was this good or not? I'm not quite sure.=) You see, this song has some really nice parts like that choir-thingie and so on, but then again that piano just doesn't work for me and it actually sounds pretty odd, when you first hear some music with dark athmosphere and suddenly a bright and fast pianopattern cuts the air. A matter of taste of course , but I didn't liked it.=) Well, although I give a 6 to this it might be worth 8 or 4. Get this and decide. Pretty small amount of samples used here, but then again some 16-bit samples were used. Maybe the amount of samples made this song sound pretty empty? That sampled choir sounded great and fitted well to the song. The use of effects? -Pretty minor. I would really like to hear an improved version from this song. Some more samples, different pianos and this might sound very good. A nice beginning, but that is just how it still sounds.=/ Too bad.