Gonna listen and post feedback. I'll edit this post.
As soon as I heard the second version, I instantly knew I liked it better. It has a more unique sound and stands out much more. The first version sounds a bit to similar to some of the other stuff in my humble opinion. I also listened to the other tracks already on the album. I'd suggest trying to shorten the intro on track 3: Influence from Beyond the Sky and perhaps add the bass in sooner. As a whole I think the album is comming along quite nicely.
I finally decided to stick to the following tracklist for the
album:
1. Ancient Kingdom of Omnimaga 06:07
2. Flash in the Sky 03:49
3. Influence from Beyond the Sky 05:41
4. [coming soon] Knight of the Stars (cover of Star Knight)
5. [coming soon]
6. Heading into the Final Battle 04:04 (cover of Final Battle)
7. Theola the One 15:47 (covers of Escape, Epic Journey Through the Galaxy & Super Star Hero)
8. Die! Die! Die! 05:13
9. One Axe to Save us All 05:36
10. It's the End of Agony 06:55
Although I contemplated splitting back song 3 into half like it used to be (and like you suggested above), I finally scrapped the idea, because I want to keep the album exactly at 10 songs (including a long one, like on the previous album) and both parts have a similar chord progression anyway. This is the same reason why I finally scrapped Epic Story Song Cover (it might be on another album in the future though).
Heading into the Final battle now also have a higher pitch. (I thought about adding the old one as hidden track on Bandcamp, along with scrapped work)
I still need to finish the 2nd half of song 4 (which sounds like Nightwish but with no lyrics) and song 5 is not only in early stages, but also needs a name.
Other than that the album isn't super far from completion, though. I also need to upload links to my two recent songs on Omni.