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Evaluation: Very enjoyable track, even if it's quite busy and muddy. Arrangement feels like it's in a good place, and I'm definitely getting a source dominant track. Compositionally, we have distinct beginning, middle, and ending. Good, take us on a journey and tell a story. Production is where I feel another look needs to be taken. The bass is huge and some EQ to sculpt it could help a lot, I'm thinking the high end of the bass synth needs to be reduced some. Might help to do this to create space for all of the other parts going on above it. There's a lot going on above the bass to be causing mud too. Definitely look at cutting frequencies out of other parts as well to make space. I struggle to really hear the arps at times, especially when the guitar is going because they both share a lot of the same space. Also pumping compression will also probably help too. The reason why you feel it lacks "Oomph" as you say is because there's no space in the mix for the parts to breathe. When you can adequately make space with ducking or EQ it will let the other parts come through better and feel stronger just because of contrast. Right now it's a bit of a sound sausage and it's all peaks on the waveform, no valleys (except the intro because of the low cut) TL;DR look at production to find a way to make space in the mix for all of the parts. Nice work so far!

I listened to your remix and most of it is great. The sound design is quite impressive (definitely captures that mixture of Industrial EBM and Hardbass). The overall arrangement is solid and fits the piece to this style well. I also think "Birth of a God" is slightly underrated due to being followed up by one of the most iconic boss themes in gaming history, "One Winged Angel", and overshadowed by the latter. I can tell you put a lot of work into this remix. However there is one major flaw I noticed, the intro is too long and monotonous (even for me). It sounds like a 5 second loop expanded to a minute and a half with minimal variation. The original's intro has some repetition but is much shorter and more varied. I feel the remix would benefit from making said intro about 20 seconds long. Sorry if I sound harsh, the rest of the remix is awesome. Also I haven't gotten a remix on the site before so I'm probably not the best person to critique a track. Still I feel this remix has a lot of potential and might actually pass with some slight adjustments.