Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Heal - Classical Remix]

Even better than the original

That's right. I like this better than the original (sorry, TMM43 ;) ). I think it's quite amazing what you made out of the song. I still can hear the melody from the original here, but in your song it sounds so different, with all those classical instruments backing up the melody.

It also creates a totaly different atmosphere. The original song creates a happy atmosphere, while this one creates a much more thoughtful, almost sad atmosphere...

Good job!

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TheBellmaker responds:

I think TMM43's version is awesome, too :). Thanks for the review and I hope to do much better things with my music in the future.

[Skela-New_years_euphoria]

Unusual intro

I think the intro is quite unusual, but on the other hand, I'm not that experienced with house music... anyway, I like the changeover from the intro to the main beat. The intro indicated that a whole other song would follow (something like a mariachi song ^^), but instead a nice beat sets in that creates a quite happy and delightful atmosphere.

Good work!

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Skela responds:

Thanks for the review.

[MH16: Epic Experiment]

Nice strings

I like the arragenemt of the strings in this song, however, it seems as if the track is unfinished as there isn't that much happening here.

While the strings are pretty relaxing to listen to, I just wished the whole time that there would happen something else, like a piano that plays a melodie, or just other instruments that play along.

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FairSquare responds:

Yeah, this is unfinished. I'll probably never finish it, but if i'm going to finish it: you gave some good advice :-)
Thanks!

[MH16: Swing]

Good song

This song offers a great, catchy melody. I was humming it along already at the very first playthrough! :)

The great main melody is backed by some good background beats and backgroundmelodies.
Too bad that the song is so short, though. I really would like to listen to this a bit longer. But on the other hand you prevent the song from getting repititve by keeping it so short.

The ending with the rising volume was a bit weird, but I think it fits pretty good there.

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FairSquare responds:

Wow, a 10! :-)
Thanks!

[MH16: The Battle]

Medieval battles

The intro creates a very good atmosphere. It instantly makes me think of some great medieval battles between hughe armies (Braveheart style ^^).

The song developes this atmosphere even further the longer it plays.

However, I think the song should be a bit more fast pace to create a even better "battle like feeling". Right now it feels more like as if the two armies are facing each other, waiting for their commanders to give the order to attack the enemy.

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FairSquare responds:

Thanks for this helpful review :-)

[Hell Hath Thy Fury]

Good

The intro sounds a bit muffled at first, but it gets better after a few seconds.

I like that you put in various parts with various melodies. This keeps the song from getting too repititive.

Sometimes all that can be heard is the background beat. I guess it should function as some kind of connection between the parts, but for me it doesn't quite work out. Maybe if you changed the "connection beat" a bit it would work better. Maybe all that is missing is just a hi-hat there.

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Blackdoom13 responds:

Thanks for the good review! Glad everyone is liking the non-Repetitiveness of it.

[** \ Death Ritual / **]

Good

A very good mix of your usual playing and some heavy industrial drums. Still I'd say this is more "Heavy Metal" than "Industrial". To be more industrial it needs more heavy drums and a heavier beat overall. Plus it has to sound more sinister. At least in my opinion.

But that doesn't mean I dislike this song. I think the experiment worked out very well! :)

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Sonofkirk responds:

Yeah, it was hard to make up my mind about the genre of this song ... Maybe I did the wrong choice :P. I still can change the genre, so I will : ). Thanks for your reviews bro, it's awesome to hear your opinion ;).

[** \ RTB's Theme / **]

Great

Great guitar playing as always. I think I said it before, but I will happily repeat myself here: I really admire your playing, sonofkirk! :D

The song has some very nice melodies and I like the changes, like at 0:54. It makes the song very diversified and keeps the listener interested.

Still I think this needs some vocals. Some parts in the song are pretty much perfect for some vocals.

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Sonofkirk responds:

I'm glad you enjoy my playing man, it means a lot coming from you :D. Keep on repeating yourself on my other songs lmao.

Thanks, since this is prog metal, changes are frequent especially about time signatures, I used TONS of weird and odd time sigs on this song.

Yeah, I always need vocals on my songs, sadly I can't sing. I'm going to ask Bad-Man to add some kick ass vocals on it, like he did with Corky's theme.

Thanks a lot for the review Haggard, I like to read reviews like that, constructive and helpful :). \m/

[Blown Away]

Nice

A nice rock track. Nothing more, but nothing less! I like the trumpets here a lot. They give the track some sort of a jazz feeling.

But this song definitely needs some vocals! I mean, everything is set up for some lyrics. There are some parts where the instruments don't play that loud, as if they are taking themselvs back so that the singer can be heard better... but there's no singer present. :(

Anyway, nice song!

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svere responds:

Thanks for the review! Yeah, I had some vocals in mind, but never got around to it.

[Organ Mix]

Good song

I like the intro a lot. It starts very calm and slowly the synth fades in. The synth also offers a nice melody. At first I was afraid that this would turn into another run-of-the-mill-techno-song. But luckily it didn't. Instead you created something quite original here.

Only thing is that it gets a little repititve after a while. I think with some lyrics this song would be even better!

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Dragproductions responds:

yea
thx for the review