Thank you! I'm glad you liked that chord movement, wanted to add some spice over the IV-bVI movement that the regular variant had. Yeah I wanted to have the big tonal shift going into Mechacanthine Foreboding (along with the switch to Phrygian Dominant) to differentiate the depths of the ocean from the higher zones. I probably could have used a digital lead on that track to smoothen the transition between the two halves of the OST.
Thanks for the detailed feedback!
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Maybe this is a personal bias, but I find changing the fidelity / realism of the instruments a little jarring for descending the depths of the ocean. Which is strange when I think about it, because the bottom of the ocean could resemble a different planet or dimension with the lack of sunlight, strange lifeforms and ridiculous amounts of pressure. I don't find a change in time signature, key signature or instrumentation that weird for some reason. I'll need to think about this a little more to figure out why I feel this way.
Good solution anyway, using a track to transition between the two sections would make it feel more natural.