Song Reviews
Manifest Illusion
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Germany, Solingen
Awesome!!
Congratulations! A very good song to listen to. The energy she spends is indescribable. All this accompanied by a rock rhythm with a vocal well arranged. The guitar is a musical based on keeping all the music expression. The song is very good, as well as harmony it has its own identity, that is, is a song that does not look like any other. A very good battery and a sensational dynamics.
Brazil, Guarujá
I Liked it...
Nice tempo changes you have on this song, Manifest Illusion. One disadvantage of starting slow is that people might loose interest if it's too long and not familiar with your music. But, you cranked it up and did great, then slowing and starting up again is good, also. Only one thing I have a 'small' problem with is that the guitar leads are too drowned out and need to come up more when he 'does' come in. Give him some more to play in the earlier slow downs, too. More shred will make this song 'pop' even more than it does right now. Good Luck in you music adventure, man. ~ Gizzmow, Bonham, Texas.
United States, Texas, Bonham
Interesting mix of Punk and good vocals
It is not often you find a Punk song that has good vocals much less vocal harmonies. Manifest Illusion has managed to accomplish this. The songwriting is solid. The production of the song is well done and they spent the money. Thank you for not releasing crap to review. This band actually makes Punk audible. This is saying a lot. The guitar work and the drumming are superb. The bass is not really audible or stand out and that is a shame because I can only imagine the pumping that goes into a song like this. Perhaps the engineer can make the bass stand out a bit more. As mentioned before, vocals are strong and quite good. Now, the song is quite long for Punk and the intro is way to long. I almost clicked off during the intro because I didn't see it going anywhere. Don't get me wrong. I like long intros but they have to be layered so as to give the impression that they are going somewhere. I didn't get that from your intro but I am glad that I didn't click to another song. The rest was just short of brilliance. The only other negative I found was the static guitar fuzz at the end. I know it is an artistic judgement but I personally didn't like it. In my opinion it makes it cheap at the end. This of course is menial given the strength of the song and better left to the author to decide how to end his or her piece. Aside from all that, I thought the song to be quite good, well produced, and warrant of a good review. Great job Manifest! You've done well!
United States, Florida, Miami
messy
nice slow start, good recording, good mix so far , mad clean guitar, waiting for the vocal but no ,not any, here they come mad change of direction and sound, not sure this works well, heavy fast rock, good stuff gets a bit messy in places but its ok
United Kingdom, London
Your Song "Shadow of Art"
Nice intro with the right touch of gain and lead then the turbo's kick in with the double kick on the drums that makes the uptempo set the song in place for the superb vocals and lyrics not to mention the Bass is rumbling with the Guitar having the key to make the song come Alive. Over all this is a Great recording and I can tell you guy's took some time on writing this all Original song and I think you got this category right with Rock, Punk, Metal. This should be played on internet radio for sure. Write On~~~
United States, Texas, San Antonio, Texas
The clouds part with the Shadow
A contemporary version of Yacht Rock, Manifest Illusion's dreamy "Shadow of Art" has a long intro before kicking in to the meat of the song. The drums and guitar licks are fast and furious. I'll expect to see the band headlining at Coachella in 2017, or other indie rock festival. I get the song and like it, though there are parts where the effort seems "eager" musically in tempo.
United States, California, Huntington Beach
The illusion is subjective
Manifest Illusion brings us Shadow of Art, a subjective foray into the prog-rock style of early anthemic songs until the break occurs and then the metal gods unleash a bevy of kick drums before jumping straight into the mosh pit. In terms of a song this group once again mashed styles together quite well. From a producers standpoint there were a couple resonant anomalies that stood out every time they hit that D chord together. It made the whole thing sound like it was mixed in a bucket on those notes.
United States, Texas, Houston
wekl written
Good song. The band's musicianship skills are obvious. Tight and talented. Definitely one of the better band's I've personally heard on N1M. Song goes alittle long for my taste, I realize that there's an instrumental intro but even with that in my experience it's better to keep songs under 5 min to hold listeners attention. Short and simple and let them play it again if they like what they heard.
United States, Rhode Island, Exeter
Melodic intro crazy guitar and then it really kicks in to a magnificent opus.
This song took me by surprise in many ways. The lovely melodic intro kept making me think the vocals were coming, then there was a bit of crazy but great lead work, but still no vocals, then, all of a sudden there's some thundering double-pedal kick drum and we're away. The latter part of the song reminded me a bit of The Damned or Blink 182 or Green Day which is no bad thing. I really like it, what more can I say? My only criticism would be the main guitar riff is a bit cliched, but the song is great. Well done guys!
United Kingdom, Norwich
Manifest Illusion
Love the chord progression and guitar picking in the intro. You may be able to connect the 2 pieces ab bit closer or even let them play into each other. I like the vocals, they suit your style of music. Good work with back vocals as well and the half feel in the middle gives some variation. Just on variation, you can call me old fashioned but I would prefer a greater difference between chorus and verse, no matter if it is done by arrangement or melody. You've got a solid mix together as well I would just cut it a tad sooner at the end. Well done, keep rocking.
New Zealand, Hamilton
Well Now!
Not what i expected at all from the bio picture. Very nice work. I really liked wart i heard so much so I'm going to head over and take a listen to more of your album. It's not often that i do so! Keep up the quality and great song construction!
United States, California, San Diego
No illusion
This seems to be a good and talented young band who takes influences from punk rock, a bit of metal and a dash of modern goth. Reminding AFI maybe a bit, like it and will listen to this again!
Finland, Helsinki