Thanks for that, ramagi. I'm working on the better software as soon as I'm back from the London meetup.

Other than that, there will be other submissions coming your way throughout 2009, so stay listening :)

Thanks for the review! You almost got it! The "hidden" reference is in that 10 seconds. Oh, yes it is indeed intentional and you could hear better what happens there if you turn up your speakers after the last chord is played (try not to burn your speakers, though, in the loop change). I'm a sucker for endings. I always pay a lot of attention to them, despite the fact that radio and club DJs tend to cut them out.
I'm glad you liked it! If you do manage to figure out what the reference is, or even if you don't, PM me and I'll tell you!
Cheers!

Thanks for the review! What I did try doing with this was to try not to overemphasize the lyrics. In most cases, when someone uses things like news clips, spoken vocals, do it in flat way, giving an impression that they have just added a clip on music. It was a tough task to both find appropriate clips from Al Jazeera for the intro and from BBC for the rest. I wanted the actual clips to be a real and intense part of the lyrics themselves. And then it's all about details. The clips were thoroughly cut, moved, stretched and compressed word to word to actually fit the music, both rhythmically and musically.
So it really feels rewarding that you liked this one! I was very proud of the result when I made this! Thanks!

Thanks for the review!
You're right, I'll have to add a better description to the song!
Other than that, this song fits my general style of composing. I don't like to stick to one style. Not even one style at a time. I like to surprise the listener musically, I don't want him to know where the song is headed. What this song signifies to me is how I get mad about something. It's one of the very few songs I've done that I was so emotionally motivated. And trust me to say that I usually make fun of people that are always angry, or always in love, or always happy and then express that same feeling in each of their songs, or paintings, sculptures, animations etc... This was probably one of the very few cases that this happened to me. My anger coincided with a creative urge at that time and I felt the need to combine them.

So, what's going on here, is that I'm never engulfed in rage. Even my anger, frustration or sadness is expressed casually, as if in a merry melody and if I'm starting to get enraged, I sit back and do some soul searching to see what's wrong with me and why any feeling I've got came to be. That's what those transitions are all about. While writing this, I actually had those emotional changes and they came out naturally. I couldn't even have a single solo in this. I felt I had to have two, side by side. Then it was just a matter of structuring those ideas into a complete song, record it, produce it, master it etc... After all that, I felt a lot better!

I hope this clarifies a few things for you. I'm really glad that in a way those emotional changes were apparent to you and I'm really glad you asked about them! Cheers!

Thanks for the review! Well, what can I say? I mainly did this one for the keyboard solos and to test other than my familiar styles. You're right about it dragging for too long, but what I mainly found the opportunity to do here (mostly in the second part of the song) was to try chord progressions that are very uncommon to dance music. You could actually divide the song into two parts, but since I'm into prog rock, having songs that are over 20 mins long, isn't something that sounds bad to me. It probably would if it was dance music, so I do know where you're getting at... It's a fair point.
Thanks again for sharing your view on this!

Thanks for the review! I could have tried singing higher, but I was afraid that my vocal chords would just pop out of my mouth and sue me. I don't have the right technique for brutal vocals, that's why this was really hard on my throat.
I wish I had at least double-tracked the guitars but at the time I didn't take this project too seriously, as I was recording other stuff at the same time. Well, maybe next time I try something similar, I'll take it all the way.

Thanks for the review! To be honest, the goal was to sound as little like the original as possible, without changing genre. The main idea was to bring the song to the 21st century, retaining its radio friendliness. This meant that the drums and bass were more blended in the mix than they would have been in the 80s. The bass line is completely different to the original and I made an effort to blend it harmonically to the rest of the instruments rather than having it stand out. Same thing with the vocal parts. I didn't want it to sound like a pop song, but as always, I might have overdone it.

Stylistically, the band has done everything from classical, pop, pop rock and gospel to hard rock, metal and personally I've even done electronic music. So we 're not exactly defined by a genre, even though we 've heard the words "folk rock" more often...

Anyways, thanks for your view on this! It's indeed helpful!