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You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Kiuas is a good band. It's like a mix of power, folk, and a touch of more extreme metal genres.

Loud to a point. There needs to be enough compression to make it sound good, but hard limiting just to squish the audio in order to make it as loud as possible causes a very boring flat sound. In metal, you want the drums to punch you in the gut, and guitars to send shivers down your spine. That...

I don't know who mastered it, but whoever it was did a terrible job. It's completely compressed and brickwalled and that doesn't help the poor production either. Great songs that I've heard so far, just very bad mixing/mastering. I haven't done any major listening for this album(hard to sit...

Alexander Keith Red and Dark are fucking fantastic.

We are not the same person. It seems like he's another fanatic posting about mastering, which is fine because I hate the whole loudness war trend too. As for myself, unfortunately I don't get to post on forums as much as I'd like because I have other things in life to worry about. So no, I don't...

Peace Sells then Pleasure To Kill. I can't pick just one.

RTL was released in '84. I'm going with Endless Pain followed by In The Sign Of Evil.

Fucking amazing album. And typical that the production is ruined by terrible mastering and this loudness war shit.

It's a fucking t.v show who cares? A kid with the right attitude and a good heart is performing with his favorite band is an amazing thing. Also the more exposure to JP the better. Honestly why does it matter what show it is.

Headphones. Also I had a co-worker that would play metalcore but people complained so I told him turn off his shitty music and listen to something better.

Yes way. A large, high-res scan of the album art is also >>> small physical album art that comes with the CD.

24/96 files >>> physical CDs anyday.

I download the album first. If it's affected by the loudness war, then I won't buy it even if the music is good. I try to support bands by going to live shows.

Excellent to hear! In light of the upcomming "dynamic range day," here's another great article that I encourage you to share with others: http://productionadvice.co.uk/research-loudness-sales/

Truls, would you be able to speak with the mixing/mastering engineers about leaving some headroom in the final mix and mastering please? I made a thread about the subject here: http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/circus-maximus/664173-new-album-mastering.html since I didn't want to keep posting...

Love Metallica's first two albums, but I tend to ignore everything about the band to keep my sanity.

Good point. I was mostly referring to peak dynamics however. A fast paced, heavy song can still have dynamics between the guitars and snare drum. In the case of Isolate, the compression took away all of the punch of the drums and in general, causes a massive amount of ear fatigue. I'll post an...

Keep in contact with the mixing and mastering engineers, and be sure to request dynamics in the mix. They actually love when clients request that because it's pretty rare these days. Thank you for your response :)

I didn't know you actually liked "nu metal" lol. Awkward coincidence :goggly: