Please do "Dark Dizzy" sometime, y'all, Mega Man X5's best theme by far, let's gooooooo!

Anyway, not sure how this split the panel based on the intro sounding so lush, but we'll see. The bass is buzzing some, so that may be something to watch for. The keys sound awesome in their subtle way; love the hand percussion as well.

The "Blaze Heatnix" melody arrives at :46 sounding pretty sophisticated and I'm just thinking "How could this possibly get NOs??"; I'm really waiting for the other shoe to drop. :-D

Digging the smooveness of the "Blaze" theme at 1:43. Again, the bass work is too buzzy & resonant, which is crowding the soundscape, but it's also not a dealbreaker yet.

At 2:47, things shift to "Blizzard Wolffang" and this sounds really lossy and flooded. The arrangement and performances are incredible (listen to those chugs!) but the mixing's muddy across the board, dayum. :'''''-( Even if it passed as-is, I'd be running it by TheMan to see if he wanted to adjust this before we posted it. Nooooooo, this is so epic, don't make me do this...

Yeah, I don't know what happened for the second half, but the mixing makes this sound like all the highs accidentally got cut. I almost want to go conditional, but I don't know how straightforward and/or easy of a fix this would be. Maybe the issues sound more apparent on headphones (what I use) vs. speakers/monitors, and that's how they snuck through?

I'd hate for TheManPF or Zack to somehow think I wasn't enjoying this track or saying it's not strong. It's both an elegant and a powerful arrangement. Guys, all I can say -- as lacking as text alone can be in conveying emotions -- this is awesome, I love it, I want it here, it deserves to be here, it's just that something in the mixing is making the outcome sound buzzier than it should be in the first half, then very lossy in the second. Run this by someone's ear that you really trust and/or a reference track you like and see if they co-sign what we're hearing. If the mixing can be adjusted, it's an absolute no-brainer YES.

NO (resubmit)