Kwing's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[CLAB - Rampant vs Blest]

Rampant has no flow. Like, at all. His verses could have been a remix of samples of him taken from commercials. Monotone diss is decent but that's really all you've got going for you.

Blest's flow is alright, at times he speeds up and slows down at odd moments but certainly does better than Rampant. It's a little strange when he ends a bar with the same pitch rather than deepening his voice to verbally punctuate his sentence. Content-wise he keeps a steady hail of blows coming. Suicide line is nice, but the second verse is a little sluggish. 'Editing his voice' is a really strong diss.

Vote goes to Blest, easily.

[Hype Track]

For a first attempt this is damn good. Awesome beat and delivery is pretty solid. Your biggest issue is your lack of multis, which is something you might not have known about way back when you made this. You should have shown up for the 2012 battles - hell, you should have a grudge match against Emrox.

[B7 - Nephalem]

I always loved Diablo but only ever played the original, so if this is meant to be a tribute to the original I guess I should be first in line to get the full enjoyment out of it.

You do Diablo a great service with this track. There's a little bit of doom metal here which is very appropriate for what this is. A lot of what I heard was actually quite Dethklok-ish, which certainly wasn't unpleasant to listen to but was not quite as fitting.

As always, your style/recording quality/production are all on-point. Keep doing what you're doing.

Burn7 responds:

You know, I've had more people tell me my music reminds them of Dethklok over the past few months than I've heard anything else ever. Not that your comment is being drowned in a sea of others, just that I feel like I should take this time to reflect upon what that actually means, musically.

I'm super glad you did actually play the original Diablo, there was so much that I wanted to add into this song that I didn't get the chance to from that game. At 3:00 I tried to recreate the march beat from the Hell section but holy fuck if the guy who wrote their OST isn't insanely talented.

Anyway, I'm truly glad you liked it overall minus a few shortcomings. Thanks for taking the time to check it out :)

[CLAB - Phonix vs Prometheus]

Prometheus V1 - Pretty uncreative bars here... Bieber, dicks, fag, etc. The 'three names' diss and age diss are rather uninspired. I suppose his flow is on point but that's about all this verse has going for it.

Phonix V1 - 'One download from your fat mom' is nice but most of the disses are kind of light. Name disses are kind of dull, the lack of clarity brings this verse down.

Prometheus V2 - Cadence diss is strong, titan from the streets is a good flip. From the Gat line to the end I'm hearing lame filler and a really awkward finisher.

Phonix V2 - Gat flip is good but the other flips are delivered pretty poorly.

Overall not a great battle, I found myself rooting for Phonix at the last verse but Prometheus took it with the two good hits in his second verse.

[Clab- Byron vs Phonix]

First off, nice job Ax, you made a real tight beat for this one.

Byron V1 - Rhyme scheme is kind of weak but you keep a steady volley of punches coming and a lot of energy. Flow gets a teensy bit off at a few points. The jabs at Phonix's mixing is the stand-out punch here.

Phonix V1 - Lots of filler but I'm really digging your flow and rhymes. Touching on doubled vocals and trying to flip the veteran line are okay but neither really wowed me.

Byron V2 - Need a translation is decent. Lots of flips but I really wasn't feeling any of them - it seemed more like you were summarizing Phonix's verse than flipping it. You also sound rather deflated compared to the energy you brought in your first verse.

Phonix V2 - Pretty similar to the first verse. Very showy flow/multis and a few okay flips.

My rubric for judging leans pretty heavily on personals, which this battle was kind of light on. That said, both of you were about equal when it came to those, with Phonix being the clear winner for rhyme scheme and creativity. Byron also fell off in his second verse when he brought very little energy to the mic.

[Yun+WS - The Silent Minority]

This has an interesting renaissance flair to it, though it gets quite repetitive after two and a half minutes. I like how the samples are played around with at 1:07 but I think this track suffers a bit from the main loop just being too short, or perhaps that the drums don't really vary too much either.

[Yun - Flood]

There's definitely a dark spook factor here. I have a feeling this track wouldn't even load if I tried to listen to it in broad daylight. I wish it were a little longer but DAMN. This is cold as fuck.

[Yun+WS - Gray]

I've always loved the vocal tracks from Ghost in the Shell so this had instant appeal to me. I really like this track although I feel like the drums are a bit too loud in contrast to the rest of the track to the point of it drowning out the other layers - the beat that comes in briefly at 2:15 is nice and brings the rest of the track into focus, I wish this was how the rest of the track was.

[Yun+WS - Fury]

Simple, slow, and serious. Pretty much everything that you two are known for when you drop an instrumental. Awesome track.

[HDC - OG vs Gas]

MC-OG V1 - Untested, unbeaten is kind of amusing. Rhyme scheme is a little weak although the flow could be a lot worse considering this is your first battle.

Gasmasq V1 - Undefeated flip is nice, ee-ee internals are a little cheesy but show off a lyrical superiority in comparison with OG. Same parents diss is alright but could have been done with a lot more sting, I think. Breath diss is nice. Drug line is probably an inside reference.

MC-OG V2 - Mic quality and delivery seems worse for some reason. Lots of bars about vehicles that don't really hold any weight. The finisher is incredibly ironic because of the comparison between the two verses here.

Gasmasq V2 - Ur-ih-ah is a nice set of syllables to roll with. Singing diss and vocabulary are very relevant, playing on the "oh yes indeed" sample is nice.

Probably doesn't need to be said but Gas takes this by a landslide.