This is my horse that is still in the race. Geech took the lead. I love the fantasy/myth lyrics. I’ve had a lot longer to absorb them. I enjoyed the Impossible Germany guitarmonies we did. I wish we did a little more of that. I enjoy the riffs. Great performance by Geech on vox! Awesome to have Ken drums! Cool song, I love the live band feel.

some good layering here, the keyboard stuff adds a lot to the overall vibe and I love it when the main guitar riff comes back in at the end. Lyrics are a good take on the challenge, vocals sound particularly good when they go up into that higher register on the middle 8. Again this doesn't appeal to my personal tastes as much as your 'Color Me' did but it's a solid rock song.

This riff oozes classic rock, reminds me a bit of KISS in feel. I like the guitarmonies, but I think I hear one of the guitars is clean and the other much more saturated, and while vive la difference, I would've preferred these to be a little bit more similar in texture. After our song this feels really dark in timbre. There are a couple of lines that sit a little awkwardly in the vocal phrase, but otherwise I think it's pretty cool--it fits right in with the classic rock feel.

Grumpy: I listened to this a couple more times than usual, to see if I could crystallize how I feel about your vocals. I'm about to get down to my tastes and associations with music, so grain of salt, etc. Let me first just say that I am a math rock guy, so all the time signature changes are right up my alley, some nice crunch guitar tones, the harmonics for texture, etc. Mostly what I feel from this song is questions of what I would call overwriting and over-phrasing--and I say that understanding that 5/8 can be weird to phrase in. But for example, when Tool does that (i.e. every other song) MJK usually sings across the riff with less syllables and sustained notes that smooth the feel, or he matches the riff right on for that unison feel. I feel like you're trying to get a lot of things out there and not giving yourself enough space to do it, so the vocal phrases feel congested to me. And the chorus, I kind of feel like that its a bit overwritten lyrically, in the sense that I would've just kept the key ideas, and not even made them parseable sentences, e.g. Lost my friend/He's lost himself too/Detained/ Where the streets have no name/Please help him find his way through. Maybe something like that, of course I haven't tried to sing it along, so that particular example might suck.

You have a voice that has a good amount of cut to it, which I envy, since my voice is very "backing vocal", no matter how I EQ it, it just blends into things unless I push it into ranges it has no business squeaking along in. That makes your voice good for lead harmonies as well, that stuff is fine. There are times, like in the verse vs the chorus, where I hear you moving from pushing the beat with the vocal to dragging it, and that can be effective, but in this song I found it a little odd.

This sounds more negative than I mean it to, but I'm just trying to answer your question of what I don't like about your vocals, so it's just sort of going that way; I hope you don't mind. Normally I just tell Glenn what I don't like about his vocals hahahahahahaha

I appreciate the picture you included with the lyrics. I’m not up on my Greek mythology, so without that image I’d have been lost with this story. Before I listened I went to wikipedia & got the gist of the Minotaur’s story, which helped. There are times when the verses sound a little clunky lyrically, but they aren’t horrible. I did really like the chorus & your delivery of it. It held my interest musically, so I guess the one thing I’d like is for the lyrics to be smoothed out a little more. For instance “terrible place”...”terrible face”... or places where you have to pause in the middle of a line so you can end it where you want to.