I listened to this twice over. Its really good. ^^;

Thanks :)

Whoa, wow, singing in a DavidN song? The world is changing quickly! :O

Heh, it is :) I experimented with some singing on http://albion.bandcamp.com/album/th.....he-night-slept , though I never posted the vocal versions to FA... once I'd been given some tips on producing vocals, I found that I could actually... stand the sound of my own voice enough to stick with it. My confidence has really improved over the last year or so!

I'm glad to hear it. :D

Props to you for putting your voice out there! Also, this got stuck in my head when I woke up this morning. XD

Fantastic :) I was shy about my voice for ages, but it's something that I've finally been experimenting with...!

it's a good start! I wanna hear more deep sounds. more thump.

I'm definitely still experimenting with production :) Do you mean in the bass or the drums, or just in general?

ja, all of the above... though I was listening through some earbuds that dont have the best bass response, but I want more bass punch... and my drums lol. ;) squee ya

"I have done stand-up before", I had no idea you could do music too. If we end up in the same situation next year, you can perform music and possibly take first and second place

Heh, thank you so much :D I was torn on whether to do standup or music when you were looking for talent, but I didn't have any vocalless tracks with me! I'm planning on doing something musical for the first time on stage at Furpocalypse, if I can get the song written in time...

You might attempt this one if need be. Now I have to consider attending.

Wicked song mate, essence of power metal through and through!

The vocals add some nice unique depth to this piece, truly enriching it. Maybe you should add more of these here (I see you did more in your most recent album) as they show a bit different side of your music! What I miss though is experimenting, trying to make yourself better with the instrumental content. Not that it isn't good: its very characteristic, immediately telling its you, however whenever I listen your pieces, I can't dismiss the feel that you can't invent something new, diversifying your already large "discography". Right now I am listening Albion and Tears of an Eagle (in Impulse Tracker format!), and they are pretty much the same in style and musical content. I even have a slight uneasiness about them, whether they were actually even a little bit better than some of your recent works. Well, this is the Internet, and I see how one must keep pumping new content to stay over the surface with the old pretty much discarded within a few years, but that doesn't make them nonexistent. Especially not with me. So I keep listening occasionally even those maybe forgotten by just about anyone except me, and their melodies indeed return to cast their shadow over your new albums.

It is good, don't misunderstand, just in overall, considering all your music, you really should work on some diversification, new inventions, new ways to express yourself while still being you. I felt Night on the Galactic Railroad (without vocals so to judge the instrumental part) having some nice touches, soft melodies less used in your earlier pieces, but mostly still very much the same. So to summarize in short: Your characteristic style is nice, it is a great thing that listening your music it is immediately apparent it is you and no-one else, the problem is that with several segments and components, just by hearing, I simply wouldn't be able to tell whether it came from (for example) Tears of an Eagle, or Night on the Galactic Railroad.

Your attempt with the vocals is especially pleasant to hear since it shows a completely new aspect, and you sing it very well! But you shouldn't stop here ;)

I actually thought much the same thing when going back and looking at Dreamscape quite recently - that I've been writing songs for ages but my style didn't evolve much after I discovered the set of instruments I felt comfortable with! That's going to change, though - for my next set of songs I've moved up to a much more realistic guitar and drum sound courtesy of Shreddage and SSD4, and I'm hoping to do more vocals as well. Have a look at "Zero" (though it doesn't have the vocals) to see what I mean :)