I Made a Metalcore Song in a Flash Game

[@EvilDogProductions]

So I made this game 12 years ago and the song you made is INSANE haha and you know what the craziest part is? March 14 is my freaking BIRTHDAY. What are the odds! lmao

[@TrueChaoSclx]

Yo, dude, slightly late happy birthday man. Thanks for the years of fun in my teens with all the games you made, hope you're doing well these days Marco

[@UndeadAhead]

What's the game called?

[@justmetal227]

Damn man this game is COOL

[@icelandicbanks6473]

@@UndeadAhead Punk-O-Matic 2, I think

[@rufocs686]

Thanks for making the most significant piece of starting point in my life: my first iterations in music making. I played both 1 and 2, and this last one was SUPER Avant Garde to its time! You're a reason as to why I learnt how to play guitar and compose music! I'll find ya on twitch.

[@kevinsullivan1578]

Why the hell was this 100 times better than I expected it to be lmao

[@NikNocturnal]

^^^ right?

[@jimthethirdprobably]

how is this flash game better than a software that i PAID real money for

[@MaximeBriseboisLemelin]

This is 100 times better than anything I’ve ever written.

[@sergiogonzalesYT]

@@jimthethirdprobably LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@billgr9892]

@@NikNocturnal bro can you show the tabs

[@thibwhoworshipthrash6854]

I think you know that we all want a guitar cover

[@NikNocturnal]

;)

[@Coverine]

@@NikNocturnal We do!

[@gabrielcastle3071]

It must be done. Too much epic. Too little Nik. Need Nik in metalcore game song. Please sir. Metalcore god you are.

[@johnny_s6890]

Nik. Make this happen. Tonight. On stream. Do it.

[@SuperRedhawk13]

FUCK YES

[@jrkern]

Punk-o-matic-Core should definitely be a thing if it isn't already. Please release EP consisting of songs just made from this.

[@NikNocturnal]

I'll call it 000-000

[@jrkern]

@@NikNocturnal When's the vinyl dropping?

[@seanfay6481]

I'm not sure if the MP3 Converter works anymore. The website died like years ago.

[@carcher4525]

@@seanfay6481 it was shut down at the end of 2019

[@Annatar3019]

@@seanfay6481 could use audacity or similar software to record system audio

[@The666VampireGirl]

imagine become one of the most popular metal/punkrock bands by using that flash game to write your songs

[@Jasonmakesvideo]

the real world version of the game is joey sturgis

[@Delta_Golf]

Im acctually trying to. My music channel name is TheHelldiverBand

[@joeyclemenza7339]

This was straight up Sum 41 meets Bullet for my Valentine meets Avenged Sevenfold with just a smidgen of Shadows Fall and hell, a touch of Thrice for good measure... and I loved it, lol. Just one big, happy, warped tour smoothie in flash game form.

[@owensspace]

Better than sum 41 these days

[@joeysfieldherpingadventure8861]

@@owensspace what rock are you under? Sum41 are better then they've ever been.

[@mybandpigvomithas3sales200]

@@joeysfieldherpingadventure8861 Wouldn't say they're better than they've ever been, but it's still great

[@juliotorres3147]

@@joeysfieldherpingadventure8861 people still suffer from nostalgia

[@Houraisan47]

thats wildly accurate

[@ThreeProphets]

This is the most technically impressive thing I've ever seen in Flash

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hey

[@Paradox_Edge]

Well then you haven't seen very much of flash. This isn't even scratching the surface of what you could make in flash which is why people are STILL MAD THAT ADOBE KILLED IT BECAUSE "MUH MONEYZZZZ".

[@bigbananadealer846]

punk o matic 3 was planned to be an even crazier flash game. basically like garageband in flash. never got finished tho i believe i checked everyday as a kid

[@EnergeticSpark63]

@@bigbananadealer846 hey

[@ChickenFriedBrad]

Wow. On top of the fact that it allows you to write full songs, the midi sounds INSANELY good! Especially considering the fact that it came out in the early/mid 2000s.

[@RaptorShadow]

It wasn't midi, it was actually all loop the creator recorded. There was a tool going around once upon a time that would take your output song file and actually combine the loops into an mp3 for you.

[@ChickenFriedBrad]

@@RaptorShadow Ah, that's really neat! Technology is nuts, man.

[@gabrielrex]

Ah the punkomatic mp3 converter, i used to download all the songs i made with that XD

[@pentexsucks43]

It sounds like legit samples, not midi. Like they cut up actual guitars

[@CheapSushi]

it's legit samples. crazy to think one person did all the riffs and cutting them up

[@MrMoz94]

That drummer double kicking with 1 foot, what an absolute animal

[@syahminorizan8064]

He might need a double kick pedal

[@BMTH-FAN]

@@syahminorizan8064maybe he has a double bass on single kick drum

[@mindaugasmazrimas4554]

I feel like this could become something the metal community on KZbin can make a competition out of

[@wingnutmcspazatron3957]

For real, I would watch that.

[@ykristianhd]

Yeesss

[@Kenya_Sokdeez35]

There is actually a competition for this called Battle Of The Bands

[@casualcyberguy1314]

@@Kenya_Sokdeez35 Battle of the budget

[@s0t3rwon_teoktheeviloneskr76]

@@Kenya_Sokdeez35 🤯

[@shona5512]

This slaps. Now you need to collaborate with a vocalist and make this an actual song to complete the process.

[@antiquagoluboy]

with toli wild

[@mpk6664]

Where's Andy?

[@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce]

this has Matt Heafy written all over it

[@lukestange]

we need andy cizek on the mic

[@MonoGrinded]

@Ian Ramírez Exactly who I was imagining!!

[@gustavofring4363]

You can actually get so much content from this game

[@NikNocturnal]

;)

[@jaredfarney675]

@@NikNocturnal you could drop a new 578 song weekly. Just sayin, I'd watch since it slaps.

[@PlyerMute]

Thank you Gus, but I think you blew up.

[@bjornboi1175]

@@PlyerMute hehehe....... Blew up

[@SuperMetalmeltdown]

PoM2 is a fucking classic. I still hop on it from time to time. Btw, there is an MP3 converter for the songs. You can even get every instrument as a separate track. Cool for editing if you want more control on the final sound

[@tomvesely4008]

Wait actually? Let's gooo!

[@LordPryde]

What’s the mp3 converter called?

[@therestingmitchface6241]

I think it’s amazing this flash game has the accurate drummer movement animations, but tv shows and movies can’t get the movements right (other than whiplash)

[@CheapSushi]

it's amazing detail

[@queasyweasel]

fr fr

[@Lui5_torre5]

For a flash game the amount of detail and care that went into this is ridiculously amazing

[@CheapSushi]

yeah seriously

[@Mise22]

Nik should make full album only using this game

[@NikNocturnal]

Maybe ;)

[@DannySlept]

hahahah yes

[@jaredfarney675]

Yes! 578 album 🤘🏻

[@kinkinkijkin]

done a ton of times by its community in antiquity so it wouldn't be unique in that way but it would still be fuckin cool as shit to see people enjoying this stuff, even though all the old members of the community largely fell out and hate each other now lmao

[@brgrungegazer7134]

Up

[@NikNocturnal]

*I like Metalcore*

[@x_the_fucking_dead_soul_x9687]

Same my friend my addiction 🤘🔥

[@seabass-first-class4547]

Very Waking the Fallen

[@into_the_void]

I like juice..it is the truth... Filtered vitamin substance

[@dmitry3269]

I love too

[@alfonsonovasco]

It’s not a phase!!!!

[@eageraurora879]

Holy shit the sound quality has no business being this good for a flash game. Absolutely mind-blowing

[@jackpit7200]

can we stop and talk about this drummer? He's doing a double kick line with one foot, absolute chad legend

[@CheapSushi]

lol

[@Kenya_Sokdeez35]

Im so happy to see Punk O Matic get the attention it deserves. This game is criminally underrated

[@RobiticDuck]

Im surprised its still available online being I think a Flash game!

[@todessehnsucht]

YES!!!

[@syazaplays3303]

Because the kids play this game back in the day are either became a metalhead or SoundCloud producer XD

[@Kenya_Sokdeez35]

@@syazaplays3303 i remember this same comment on a video of some guy playing punk o matic. Glad to see this comment again 😆

[@CheapSushi]

crazy how many options there are riff and note wise for the game

[@VijiogFrito]

holy shit this brought back some crazy memories. when i was a teenager i “wrote” an album using this game and put it on bandcamp

[@jayayvee_music]

what’s your artist name?

[@dmitriyk.4991]

I’d check that shit out

[@F4sy]

Where it at

[@anopirsten7565]

what is it?

[@piroshk1968]

ayo link?

[@crowdkillproductions.]

Damn...they updated the hell out of this game since i last used this in like 2004.

[@NikNocturnal]

They were apparently working on the 3rd one but never finished it

[@charlesjones9860]

@@NikNocturnal well maybe now they will. I WILL COLLAB WITH YOU ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. I do instrumental 8-bit nintendocore/metalcore/deathcore under the alias "Made In Taiwan." If ya can't find me thru YT search (cuz of my low sub count, of course lol) find me thru reactions of my stuff on the Mat & Chels React channel! Contact info in the MIT bio page 🙂🤘

[@charlesjones9860]

PS I'm a musician, not an audio engineer. Judge me by my music, not my overall sound lol 🤷‍♂️ (I use stock FL Studio 20 with no knowledge of sound design, just a lot of passion for the craft)

[@crowdkillproductions.]

@@charlesjones9860 just checked out your project. Shit is sick!

[@charlesjones9860]

@@crowdkillproductions. thanks much man! Glad you enjoyed it

[@zenith8417]

It's a shame EvilDog never made punk-o-matic pro. It was A LOT more ambitious than pom2 and I don't think it could be possible, even with a small team. EvilDog is really good at making games(he also made both road of the dead's and lab of the dead), but meeting and outdoing pom2, that's a tall order

[@Mr_Bedlam215]

A tall order it is, man. At least we got the memories made on the game and website. Good to see you kicking about still, man! -Drac Alucard

[@trey3294]

@@Mr_Bedlam215 Dude, it's Treytes! wuddup! haha

[@Mr_Bedlam215]

@@trey3294 My guy!! Holy Hell, we're all coming out the woodworks on this one, eh? How the fuck you been, man?!

[@DrVoodoo]

Guess how I read "pom2" _G u e s s._

[@Mr_Bedlam215]

@@DrVoodoo No need to guess. I hear it through the text lol

[@michaelcarlton1484]

Bass/Rhythm guitars are so underrated. They carry rock/metal/alt. songs.

[@galacticriminalx]

I'm SO FUCKING ready for this!! Punk o Matic was my SHIT! I swear it was all Lagwagon and Bad Religion riffs back in the day!! LETS GO! 🔥🤘🤪🤘🔥

[@EricDravenThaCrow]

GALACTICRIMINAL!!!!

[@graphsicimagevinyls5882]

funny i was thinking this could be a NOFX song off of S&M Airlines or around that era

[@SnackPack913]

Dude you are way too good at this haha. Man it would be fun having at least any musical experience in order to just pump out something like this

[@_childofthegrave_]

Omfg dude, this is actually so good!🤟 Plus your enthusiasm for the song, the game and life in general is contagious af and I love it, lol

[@NikNocturnal]

5-7-8 always gets me hyped

[@jonstyles5093]

I kinda miss playing this game I remember made a lot of song with this with game and even named my band Murder Home Suicide. Totally nostalgic moment for me.

[@cadaverflesh]

what is the name of the game?

[@janaxelblomberg7768]

@@cadaverflesh it’s in the description

[@jonstyles5093]

@@cadaverflesh Punk O Matic 2 or 3 I can't remember, but you'll find it and its fun to play.

[@bigbananadealer846]

i named my band Maniatic. i cried when i accidentally deleted an entire song

[@racoondraws6045]

Now i have this weird feeling of asking for the actual tabs of this song, like, i can't believe a flash game works so well!

[@CheapSushi]

crazy how the game actually does give you tabs for what you make

[@SovereignAUS]

A flash game from the early 2000's has no fucking right being this good 🤣

[@scruffynips13]

Holy shit, what a classic game. Gotta post a guitar cover with those tabs.

[@Brotelho]

Fuck this brought back so many memories. I spent hours on the first punk-o-matic. Part of the reason why I picked up guitar in the first place.

[@Jasonmakesvideo]

i had a similar nostalgia for a game called frequency on ps2 .. this is the first ive ever heard punk o matic ever.

[@TheCivildecay]

This is one hell of a well made Flash game

[@ivory_lion]

I remember coding in Actionscript, even in their later versions all you could do with Audio was play or stop sounds, even stuff like pausing you had to do from scratch. Mad respect to the dev(s)

[@EvilDogProductions]

Thanks! :D

[@WingMaster562]

@@EvilDogProductions dude, why did I discover this way too late? Let alone have the sounds not bitcrushed is already an amazing feat. This is black magic.

[@micl6562]

yeah this is insane

[@ivory_lion]

@@EvilDogProductions Oh hey, cool to see you here. I played this game too back in the day, thanks for the good memories

[@genuinejustin6269]

I seriously cannot believe how sick this song actually is. Like wtf!?!? If this had lyrics I would for real blast this in my Audi 😆

[@drewharry88]

DAMN.. they upated the original to where you can actually control the keys of each instrument now.. that is soooo sick.. Cant wait to fuck with this later. The drums still leave a bit to be desired.. really wish theyd throw some that dont go nuts on the kick drum so much BUT thats punk for ya, lol

[@tehFHS_Umbra]

This legitimately sounds like it would come off of Triviums “Shogun” or “Ascendancy” albums

[@seanwald2249]

i was gonna say this too, probably ember to inferno instead of shogun tho lol

[@TheSevenkiller]

I just wrote a comment about it before reading yours, it totally sounds as fuck like some Ascndancy and Shogun stuff... just especially those 2 albums...

[@ImNotFunny541]

@@TheSevenkillerAgreed

[@killaknight12]

Oh my god this is still a thing? I used to put so much time into the first Punk-o-matic, when I had no clue how music works and as I see, everything coming out of it is still lit AF.

[@NikNocturnal]

Timeless game

[@Lowlander_]

This had absolutely NO right being this good lmao

[@Velakor9150]

this really slaps, someone needs to do a vocal cover of this. Where is Will Ramos at 😂

[@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23]

The vocals are literally just his demon noise from the end of To The Hellfire repeated the whole track

[@pixelplays964]

@@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23 I used to frequent the fan site for this and moderated it for a bit, there was an entire section for songs with vocals on it. There is still an active community for the game to this day, even if I'm not a part of it anymore.

[@dave6564]

waking the fallen was one of the albums that got me into heavier music at the time. so fucking good

[@alphared4655]

I remember this on Kongregate eons ago. So cool you pulled this out. You being happy makes me happy. You're having a good time and I salute you

[@bildini]

This is the content we come to this channel for. I still have tabs saved from the OG Punk-O-Matic. Had no idea that the 2nd version of the game was so expanded. Going to need more of this!!!

[@ptr_does_music7042]

Man you really made my teens come back to life. I remember not only honing my composition skills with this game but also blogging/interacting lots about it with its other users, even making Collab songs. Now those forums are dead.. but we still got this fun game!

[@jaedenk999]

3:23 When I first saw this video I barely listened to metal and had never heard of Avenged Sevenfold. Because you mentioned it here I gave it a listen and waking the fallen is one of my favorite albums and A7X is my favorite band. XD

[@tacosqueeze8791]

3:30 bass line at the start of Asian Kung Fu Generation - Haruka Kanata

[@the_vengeful_one6040]

It’s crazy that a flash game could replicate music so well.

[@ippotsk]

All it needs is a virtual singer! Can't wait for the Vocaloid episode Nik.

[@b00tybu77chks]

I didnt even know there was a second one. I used to play the first one all the time

[@NikNocturnal]

Yeah the 2nd one had SOOO many new features

[@q306005]

I actually used the first game to make an album that I actually put on Bandcamp under the name "Forgotten Regret." I tried to use this game to make a follow-up, but I was a dumb kid and it was too complicated for me. You made it look easy to make a masterpiece.

[@basedgengarenjoyer7510]

its so weird how HARD this FUCKS plus how good the samples sound for being a flash game

[@ashleykemp3570]

Holy shit I used to play this yeaaars ago, fuckin nostalgia right there.

[@NikNocturnal]

Same

[@Ehrmann_Gregsson]

I feel like if I knew about this game 10 years ago my life would be different

[@nitrouscatfish5827]

Honestly one of the freshest metal videos i've seen in a long time.

[@caethgarner4968]

This sounds way too good to be a flash game. That was friggin amazing 😂

[@sefan666]

6:40 this breakdown part is so fucking heavy i can feel it🤘🤘🤘

[@nharlow_4303]

Did a flash game just make me an expert in metalcore production?

[@zacharygriffiths7370]

I can’t wait to vote this in for the heaviest breakdown of 22

[@MichaelFromTheAttic]

I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing this thing when I was younger haha!

[@YouTubeViolates1A]

You're absolutely right about Waking the Fallen.

[@Netjak]

The punk o matic community back in the day was insane! Crazy to believe it is still around

[@usukapal]

The punk-o-matic games helped me through some times. Such amazing quality in a flash game

[@RiceShouldBeFluffy]

I remember this freaking game. I didn't know there was a sequel. This song kinda sounds like the first two Thrice albums. This easily could have been on either "Identity Crisis" or "The Illusion of Safety." The only thing missing is acoustic breaks.

[@JohnDoe-qf1ji]

making a metal song in a game about making punk music is such a punk thing to do

[@DX5555555]

I'm old enough to remember when this game dropped. I was an avid player of Punk-O-Matic 1. It's the reason I picked up the bass (and later the guitar). All my heroes were inspired by great music... I was inspired by a flash game (which had great music).

[@CheapSushi]

dude that's awesome! I bet a lot of people ended up in real bands because of it

[@DX5555555]

@@CheapSushi PoM1 was posted on every flash site there was back in the mid-late 00s. I do hope there was a generation of people who were inspired by that game. PoM2 had a very active fansite when it first released. Especially including the guitar/bass tabs in the PoM2 game really encouraged picking up an instrument. I had to learn the PoM1 riffs by ear hahaha.

[@Gravyman143]

Can we get Andy to do some vocals on this?

[@ghostnerddd133]

How I miss playing this game

[@justinmatheson9198]

Why is this song better than most new albums I’ve heard the past few years?😂😂😂

[@baronhelmut2701]

This dude straight up called it at the beginning of the video: „Hardest hitting banger…“. He pulled a witness me like mad max.

[@robpeyton1986]

This literally could be any metal core band from that Era haha I love it

[@CheapSushi]

Hey Nik, the game has even more options to watch your band play at different stages too!

[@ssvaiyn3187]

The real question we should all be asking is, when is Nik going to cover this song?

[@jojoplaysmusic]

From the moment I saw that green BC Rich Warlock on the dude on the right I knew I needed it.

[@IlyPlasma]

Instant subscribe bro as a musician and music lover. As well as your humour and the amount of insanity

[@3100032]

God damn. It brings some mixed classic vibes It's like...Bullet For My Avenged Trivium

[@butlerjeeves9075]

Damn, im impressed! I forgot about this game, i didn't know it had a song creator, growing up i only played the rockband rythm game part

[@drsmainemusic]

I still regularly play Punk-O-Matic 2! To this day I come up with cool, different sounding riffs and tunes. I've created dozens of bands and played through the story mode countless times. Always hoped for the Punk-O-Matic Pro sequel that never came to be...

[@Werewolf914]

Why is this Flash Game so well made? What in tarnation, I need a Prog Metal song made in it now.

[@SeymoreSparda]

Breh, DT, Opeth, Haken, Gojira, Mastodon, Ne Obliviscaris, etc. The possibilities are endless!🤣

[@lostthepick]

this octave melody is catchy af man..........

[@NikNocturnal]

Octaves for LYFE

[@Phx516]

If the drums were more chaotic this would sound like off sounding the seventh trumpet

[@Phx516]

@Jayden Newton true

[@doomerbelowthewind]

Oh my god the nostalgia, man those were the days of 'y8games when punk-o-matic is the best ever along with mike shadow

[@Rise_Against_fan]

This bro really made Sum 41's Screaming Bloody Murder sound heavier💀

[@Burnout_Blanco]

Bro wtf lmao that was way better than what I thought a flash game could do. That roast at the end damn near killed me haha

[@gaijinkuri684]

This is way too good. Who made this flash game?! It's amazing!

[@rickhapstley3866]

Marco Arsenault, AKA Evil_dog, he's a coder and a musician who's been around for a long time. I personally love the album "Supper's Ready !" By his group Chuck's nation, it's skate punk with awesome riffs

[@stormfall4642]

Was on a nostalgia binge and found this. What an absolute BANGER. 🤘

[@nickbryantfyi]

waking the fallen was a great album thanks for plugging it.

[@SaarN1337]

A Gibson Flying-V and BC Rich Warlock guitars, pretty neat. Those BC Rich guitars are pretty nostalgic, last time I had seen one of those it was a Kerry King sig. guitar, and I don't think they make those anymore. Pretty old school, being flash, the general aesthetics, the gear, everything. Nice.. nice.

[@CheapSushi]

for sure

[@Vaiskipelaa]

Punk-o-matic. Right in the childhood feels< 3

[@ElricWilliam]

Thats fucking banging...I wish I made anything remotely like this when I played xD

[@malchionmajere]

FUCK YES THIS WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER!

[@Piercethecitzen]

The fact this is made by the same people who made the car game with the zombies is insane

[@Zombie_13x33]

"the guitars arent plugged in?" "I KNOW! ITS A GAME! I laughed so hard lol! this is a really cool game/program.

[@redninja216]

RIP Tabit Long live Punk-o-Matic 2

[@teh_supar_hackr]

The instruments in this early 2000s flash game sounds much better than many of the "real" instrument plugins on FL Studio or Reaper lol

[@priestband9975]

Straight up, thats an old school trivium song lol Im here for this

[@milkysoup7237]

0:56 when he said no one cares about the bassist my heart broke into a bazillion pieces:/

[@fox599]

We need that Song in Spotify. 🗿

[@BigBBigTrees]

Bro this was one of my favorite flash games EVER! You could actually make decent songs with all the loops provided

[@CheapSushi]

for sure!

[@rimtott2570]

Ахуеть мощно получилось!!!👊👊👊👊🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Zimx02]

the end when you were playing random shit sounded amazing