1. You Will Not Escape
   DDRKirby(ISQ)
2. regret
   johnfn
3. After the Kill
   Trancient

Acuity: Short but sweet. I liked the simple bassline under the piano melody.
Arcana: You are making some serious progress on the guitar, keep that shit up.
Atmospherium: Great song! Some feedback on the vocals, though: your screaming has so much force behind it, but your clean vocals feel like you’re not supporting them at all. Try put as much air behind them as you do with your screaming!
A-zu-ra: The world needs more 3/4 (6/4?) electronica... but this track needs more vengeance. It’s very well produced, but it’s too twinkly and floaty!
CaptainFluffatun: You’ve captured the feel of a gritty antihero on a quest for revenge very nicely.
DarkShadow: Grindy 7/4 polyrhythms? Excellent.
DDRKirbyISQ: *sighs, votes* Amazing 9-bit synth work as always, layered on top of some great breakbeats. I feel like the bass drum in the breakbeat sections could use a little more punch; the track is pretty light in the low frequencies overall and feels a little less aggressive than it should be as a result.
DucksUnlimited: Props for live instrumentals! Bagpipes... aren’t my first choice of instrument to listen to, but you’ve put together a pretty nice piece with them.
Forty-Two: Good job for a rush job. You’re probably already aware of this (since you rushed), but you need to vary up the attack and timing on the orchestral instruments to make them sound less obviously mechanical.
Hollow: These glitchy beats are straight-up amazing. It took me a while to warm up to your synths, though, they’re just a little too discordant and grindy.
JamesonSutton: Holy shit, this jazz.
johnfn: You have been on a roll lately. I am consistently amazed at your ability to throw down so many different sounds and ideas in such a short period of time.
Misael.K: Superb progression.
Obscene: Interesting lead choice. Great composition, but it feels like it ends halfway through. (The fade-out ending doesn’t help at all.)
R3M: Even taking into account the cold, it sounds like you could really use a lot of warming up before you start singing. Practice hitting intervals running up and down the scale, it will make it much easier to stay on-pitch. (Also, you should totally write your own songs for OHC!! Do it!)
SketchMan3: A Mario Paint entry. Astounding.
Trancient: Amazing sound design. That slidy (synth?) guitar is unreasonably sexy, and then you’ve got all these synths and strings and drums too. Great progression, great composition. My only complaints are that it feels a little too reserved and contemplative for this theme, and I generally dislike fade-out endings.

1. Blood for Blood
   CaptainFluffatun
2. You Will Not Escape
   DDRKirby(ISQ)
3. Backstabber
   Forty-Two

I'm the best around no one's gonna ever keep me down

Kirby's baller AF

42 got dat composition, guuuuuuuuuurl

1. You Will Not Escape
   DDRKirby(ISQ)
2. regret
   johnfn
3. Distorted Flute! Take that!
   obScene

DDRkirby: stabbing, heatbeats, tension, cave reverb. This follows the theme and also tells an amazing story.

johnfn: Outdoing yourself every week. The leads are REALLY good in this song, especially around 3:45.

obScene: I really liked the rock orchestra style here. It was very very solid.

Many other people had good songs. There aren't enough voting slots. Atmospherium, MisaelK, DarkShadow, blastron, Transcient, Acuity, A-zu-ra were all really good. Ducks and R3M get compliments for their versatile and interesting live performances.

1. After the Kill
   Trancient
2. Bring Back What's Mine
   Atmospherium
3. Tomorrow (feat. munshkr)
   Misael.K

My weakness is sexy soloing and all 3 of my top picks had it:

trancient's piece is just asdfghj beautiful.

Atmospherium's piece was freaking amazing

Misael.K's piece wasn't just a step forward for him - just in general, it was awesome.

There were a lot of other great pieces. my 4th, 5th, etc picks look like this:

DDRKirby(ISQ) - I don't even know how I'm not voting for this

A-zu-ra - really good, enjoying those bird like sine noises :) Another one that I'm stumped isn't even making the top 3. TOO HIGH QUALITY PIECES. goddd that piano at the end.

Acuity - dat sexy piano amg

hollow - dat sound design adfglkj

1. After the Kill
   Trancient
2. regret
   johnfn
3. Blood for Blood
   CaptainFluffatun

Trancient and jonfn: amazing job both, it was a close call but I decided on Trancient because of that solid guitar. I loved the overall atmosphere you created johnfn...

CaptainFluffatun... awesome job with the orchestration.

1. regret
   johnfn
2. After the Kill
   Trancient
3. Seethe
   blastron

Honorable mention: Ducks. My cat was laying on my desk all nice and content listening to OHC tracks with me. Then I got to your song and he stood up and ran out of the room.

1. Bring Back What's Mine
   Atmospherium
2. support
   DarkShadow
3. You Will Not Escape
   DDRKirby(ISQ)

Sorry, it's been a long time since I've voted or participated. Society compels me to do things other than music, but music sometimes pulls harder than society.

Atmospherium - Best fit of the theme.

DarkShadow - Also pretty good fit of the theme.

DDRKirby(ISQ) - Dark conveyance of the theme, but good.

1. Distorted Flute! Take that!
   obScene
2. After the Kill
   Trancient
3. support
   DarkShadow

obScene: yeah, this is the theme. Completely magnificent.

Trancient: close second! amazing job.

DarkShadow: a fitting intense entry, in the DarkShadow style.

A-zu-ra: lovely, but not very fitting to the theme.


What I also liked:
Acuity; Arcana; Atmospherium; blastron; CaptainFluffatun; DDRKirby(ISQ); Forty-Two; Hollow; SketchMan3.

1. inside a cold hearts
   A-zu-ra
2. Bring Back What's Mine
   Atmospherium
3. regret
   johnfn

OMG Azura


Atmospherium.... um live guitar?!!?!?!?


Johnfn - I regret that there isn't two gold and silver medal positions.

What a f-ing week... too hard to vote....

1. You Will Not Escape
   DDRKirby(ISQ)
2. Bring Back What's Mine
   Atmospherium
3. regret
   johnfn

DDRKirby(ISQ) - fits the theme, being super aggressive.
Atmospherium - heavy metal with the lyrics works into the theme.
johnfn - long song, has some neat effects.