Haggard's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Asinine Display of Faith]

Sounds chaotic

On the first listen I thought: "Oh boy, what's that? Sounds as if the beat is all over the place..."
Then I made a little pause and started the song again. This time I could identify the beat and realized that the effects you used make this song sound chaoitc, but this time I liked what I heard. It sounds interesting and pretty different from what you can normaly hear in the audio portal, so your song is very original, I guess.

I also liked how heavy this song was, it's quite awesome.

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[FFX_Battle_Theme [Box-Killa]]

Very nice

I don't know how often I listened to the battle theme while I played the game a few years ago. I really like what you've done with it. The echo sound on some of the instruments is a pretty good choice. This gives the song a very relaxed atmosphere, pretty different from what the battle theme was intended for (you shouldn't relax in a battle, you should fight -.- )-

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[NGStyle_DNB_Menu]

Nice

Yeah, I think this would sound very good in a menu. I like the intro very much. The snare sounds pretty good and the rhythm here is nice as well.

Later on in the song it gets a lot more quiet, but it still sounds pretty good.
Also the loop is done very well, so if this would be included in a flash to have some music in the menue there wouldn't be a gap, which really is a good thing. :)

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[First Musings]

Sounds like music for a trailer

And I mean that sort of trailer for movies, not like caravans. ^^

I nearly expected to see some movie scenes popping up on the screen for an upcoming animated movie like "Shrek" or "Up".
The background beat just reminds me of some trailers I saw...

The strings are pretty good here as well. The melodies are pretty catchy and even now after the 8th or 9th time I listen to this while writing the review and doing other things the song doesn't get boring. It still sounds fresh and delightful .

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loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked it!

[Thank You - BK]

Good

I think this would work really well in a strategy game, like Command & Conquer (you know, those kind of futuristic strategy games). The song isn't too distracting and it gives the player something nice to listen to while he is playing the game.

You have some very good melodies in this song, I especially like the one we can hear towards the end of the song (at around the 3 minute mark). It is catchy and really driving, "forcing" the player to play faster and do something or else his opponent will just crush him.

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Bracksta responds:

lol, that is an awesome take on the song, i never thought of it that way! thanks so much haggard for the review it is always appreciated :D

[==(Glass Tree in the Sky)]

Amazing

Too bad that there's a storm going on outside, because I think this piece doesn't really work with storms... it's so relaxing and nice that I almost thought it's summer again and I lie at a beach while the sun is warming me... but then the wind in the trees always disturbed this image for me. :(

Anyway, this song is amazing. It is very well structured from the beginning to the end. I like how the song builds up more and more from the intro to the climax at around the four minute mark, where it slowly fades out.

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[The Storm's Rage (WiP)]

Guitars don't sound too good

This is a really nice attempt, but as a metal fan and guitar player myself I really hate the guitar sound. It's just too artificial. Also, there is some noise in the background when the guitar plays the main riff that is really annoying (it can be heard at 0:27 and other occasions throughout the song). I guess it's from the drums, but it really doesn't sound that good.

Also, I was expecting some thrash metal after the intro. I mean, some hughe storm is going on, then "1, 2, 3, 4" on the hi-hat... and then I was just expecting some more brutal music. I don't know, maybe because bands that play that kind of stuff like to count in their songs with four hits on the hi-hat. ^^

Anyway, enough criticism, now to the good things: Wow, this is your first attempt? It's a quite good attempt, even though I wrote two long paragraphs of what I don't like right at the beginning. The song is well structured and even contains a nice solo plus the main riff sounds very catchy.
Also, the drums play some really good stuff.

The outro needs some more work, I think. The song kind of just ends there. Maybe end it with a short drum solo, those kind of outros work most of the time pretty well. :)

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Step responds:

Thanks for the review! It's true about those gutars. I haven't heard one electric guitar sample which sounds even close to an electric guitar. Probably the annoying sound you were hearing was one of my guitar samples, lol :P. Either that or it was a wind sound effect or something, since I tried using loads of weather sound effects around the song. I see what you mean by the stuff after the intro, now that I'm hearing it again it does skip from loud to soft too suddenly. Anyway, thanks for the compliments, and about the outro... well, I may try a drum solo, but it's not going to turn out that well probably because I'm not that amazing at percussion. Thanks again for the review :D.

[Crossing the Mountains]

Amazing

I like this one even better than "The Dragon's Teeth", so consider yourself lucky I reviewed that one before, or else I could've only gave you 9 points instead of 10 for "Dragon's Teeth". :P

Anyway, this again sounds as if it was taken straight from an epic movie. Again our group of heroes is to be seen, marching across some mountains (well, the title says so ^^).
I just don't know exactly where to put this "crossing scene" in the imaginary movie. Either it is before "Dragon's Teeth", when the group just sets off to their journy, or it is shortly after it. They got captured, nearly gave up and died, fought their way back and now they are back on track to complete their tasks.

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[The Dragon's Teeth]

Great

Wow, this sounds really epic, as if it was taken straight from a movie. I imagine either a hughe battle between two hughe armies going on, or the group of heroes is fighting against some evil creatures after they have nearly abandoned all hope.
This song just has this "we have to FIGHT! And we will WIN!"-feel to it. Nice work!

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[ECHO - Reverb-X (2009)]

Good song

I don't think I've ever listened to the original, but this doesn't reall matter too much. This is a very nice sounding song. I like the trumpet very much as there aren't too many songs in the audio portal that make use of this instrument.

Maybe the background beat is a bit too repititve, but I don't think listeners will pay too much attention to that, as the background beat just stays where it belongs to, in the background. So, the melodies do the main work for this song and they are very diversified, so the song doesn't get repititve too fast.

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Echo responds:

tks man. I always wanted to put a trumpet in somewher, who knew it'd be in a dance song :)

Thanks for the detail you put in, once i'm gonna continue work on the revised version, keeping your review in mind. thanks ;)

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Btw, diversified isn't exactly a word lol...