cazok's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[** \Symphony Of The Demon]

I wrote the song long ago.
Pretty sure no one else used this particular tune before I came up with it...
I absolutely love the metal cover though! Being a big metal fan myself, I gotta say it's hella fun seeing one of my older works which originally werent intended to be hevay, metalized like this :)

Great job!
-Cazok-

Sonofkirk responds:

Hey man ! We had a conversation by PM about this song like one year ago I think ;) Did you check out the other version I made? As I said you early this song you wrote is absolutely perfect.

Thanks for the review!

[Symphony Of The Demon - S]

Wow awesome!
In the years after making that song, I got into really heavy symphonic metal like dimmu borgir and stuff, and I gotta say this is absolutely stunning! Epic to the bone man!
Hearing this awesome cover of my old song made my day :D

Greetings
-Cazok-

Sonofkirk responds:

I remember searching the internet to find who wrote the original song and never found anything haha. This song fascinated me so much I had to make my own version of it, I did two actually haha :) Thanks for checking out and for composing this legendary song.. :)

[I AM Death]

Gosh, it's been so long since my last review...

Well to get started, I really like the feel of the piece. The organ has a nice classic tone to it, and the composition feels pretty convincing. I also really like the hollowness of the main theme here. The exorcism part at the end actually works pretty well too, and kinda reminds me of Alexander Andersson from Hellsing for some reason...
My only complaint is that those drums may seem a little too straight-forward. I like them a little more dynamic and acoustic-sounding, but just that's just my opinion. If you were aiming for a heavier beat to set the pace, I totally understand.
So all in all; great piece! It has a good (or should I say Evil?) spirit :D

If you're looking for more organ music, may I suggest that you check out my song "Terrorflame Trench". It has a pretty nice organ solo a little while out in the piece.

mistarogerz responds:

great review. this is exactly what all musicians are looking for!

[Medievil Hip Hop Beat]

Its...

...A triplet pattern! The tempo isn't the issue, you need to switch to a completely different time signature

booyadiaz responds:

Well, I was just testing. I'll make it more different in the next one

[Redwood's Furnace]

Well...

I'm gonna be honest with you.
The very fact that the entire 3:40 song consisted of only two chords looping over and over again, made the song extremely boring. Even though you've tried to spice it up with some fancy beats and creative hornsections, nothing changes the fact that the entire song lacks build ups, bridges, choruses and breaks. Sorry man, but this just ain't good music.

SHADOWFOX2 responds:

Thanks d00d :]

[Strykjärn - Svälj Din Stolthet]

Just wonderin'

Did you happen to use an electronic drumset to record this song? Cuz if not, it sounds like you got some damn good triggering going on there...

I'm kind of a musician/drummer myself, so I'm a bit curious. What kind of pedals do your band's drummer use? Axis?

Awesome song though!
-Cazok-

Dimoria responds:

Na he just uses regular Iron cobras from Pearl I think. But the Chain version not the cord. Oh almost forgot , he used a Roland TD 4 . I ran the Drumkit from hell superior 2.0 samples through my computer.

[The Nightmare - {LDL}]

Couldn't have done it better myself

Ever played the game Medievil? It's an old gothic horror/cartoon game from 1999 for the PS1. One of my favourite games of all time...

The point is that this song really reminds me of that game. It's so dark and moody it almost gives me goosebumps. The harp and strings gives the song such a wonderfull touch of mystery and horror. I would simply LOVE to see this in a game like Medievil.

Make more like this!
-Cazok-

LoopDaLoop responds:

I still have my PS1 :D But never heard of the game Medievil.. I'ma look it up!

The combination of the strings and the harp is really good, yeah..

Nostalgia :)
{LDL}

[Dark - {LDL}]

Well...

Considering the fact that this is a song from runescape, and not a song that you produced, I can't give this song a full score.

On the other hand, some parts of it were really good, and your choise of instruments fitted the mood well.

-Cazok-

LoopDaLoop responds:

Thank you, i'm glad I could bring the feeling like the original can.

{LDL}

[Battle With the Four Fiends]

HEY!

What happened to the timing!? Around 1:00 the matching between the drums and the guitar is completely messed up. Is it supposed to sound like that? If it's not, I would love to hear a better version. Would you be able to repost it again?

The part at 1:00 would really sound KICKASS if something were done with the timing.

DPK4 responds:

Yes it is supposed to sound like that. Admittedly it is sloppily done, but the time signature for most of the song is very odd, mainly 6/4 time sig, I will go back and fix it up and add some more buff to it at some point anyways, thanks for the criticism!

[Pattern Of Symmetry]

....

I don't normally listen to trance music, but this one was somehow different.
You had me hooked from the very start and I sat listening through it in deep concentration. New twitches and turns makes the song less repetitive and somewhat very original. I especially liked the part starting at 3.14

I'm downloading this now.
10/10
5/5

(Oh and by the way: The constant Oi... Oi... Oi... Oi... Oi... in the first part of the song cracked me up XD )

Psyentology responds:

Thx dude glad u liked it!