Kis- devils night (1kis-dev.xm)

Posted by arcturus on Thu 19th Aug 2004, rated 5 / 10.

This was a so-so song. Could have been a lot better - the music has potential, but I think the author's tracking style holds this one back from being a good, solid tune. Some parts of this song just didn't make sense to me. For example, in pattern 7, what was with the pitch drop? Quite a non-sequitur. Plus, the author should have finished the end of the song - it sounded like it was about to conclude, but the end came and it looped back to the beginning (and it was not a seamless transition). Repeat after me: do not lose your audience. The biggest flaw of this song is that it is about twice as long as it should be. I don't mind long songs - I can listen to the eight minute "Flowers in the Abyss" repeatedly without getting bored - but this song is long not because it's got nine minutes worth of music in it, but because it has four and a half minutes of music and was played twice. Every pattern is repeated - the order list doesn't go 0-1-2-3, it goes 0-0-1-1-2-2-3-3. I listened to this cutting the number of times each pattern was used in half, and it sounded a lot better than the extra long version. The long version left me incredibly bored with this song. A shorter version might be worth listening to again. However, with this song as long and as boring as it is, I doubt I'll be revisiting it.