Reviews for '11 Zombie Red Zone

[Whirlguy]

A Zombie Movie Soundtrack

This really sounds like a soundtrack sort of thing. I imagine an overview of zombie-filled landscapes, as a birdview rappidly scrolls over pastures and small villages, while the horns blow and the violin section screams. The percussion after that really kept me on the edge of my seat. While I was blown away by the quality of your production, so far it might aswel be the escape scene of a regular action movie. But then comes a silence before the storm... I think we're safe now, let's hav-WHAT THE FUCK!? ARGHgg! Agaagahurrm...

Man, they got me good. Those were definitely zombies! All in all this song's like a rollercoaster, these zombies can run like hell! You should see to your fellow survivors and leave no one to their fate.

Braaains...

[BrokenDeck]

RRRGGGHHH! BRAINS!

Congratulations on your Zombie NAC win Peter. I do belive this is you second 1st place in this years audio contests.

Good work mate! :D

[Realmguys]

NAC Judge

Bonus points for having the coolest instrumentation out of all the entries I heard. Those are some realistic sounding strings and brass, I really dug them. The pounding "Hans Zimmer-esque" drums sound awesome, ANYTIME someone uses them. This implied many different speeds of the chase that we asked from the contestants. This mix sounds a bit muddy, was this due to the quality being lowered for your submission file? I feel like this should sound much more crisp. Even with said issues, your song sounded amazing, and you did well in following the contest criteria! 9.5

[Evil-Dog]

NAC Judge

Holy wow, I loooooooove this, amazing ambiant piece. As soon as there's a thumping bass, you basically got me by the BAWLS! Haha! Reminiscent of resident evil 1 (the movie)'s music which I freaking love. I also liked that the song kinda has different sections to it, really cinematic. To me that's a perfect zombie track. I could nitpick but nothing serious enough to take a point from you. Epic climactic ending!

[RyeGuyHead]

NAC Judge

Top-Notch Production

Eeep. Very video gamey. Could totally imagine this as the intro track to a zombie game. The swells coincide with the industrial sounding beat superbly. There isn't much for a main melody throughout, but I think that works because this piece has a great atmosphere to it. Dynamically, it has lots of peaks and troughs, with periods of extreme silence followed by spurratic intensity...the result is jarring and effective. Once the guitar kicks in, it is as if the zombies have broken through the levy, so to speak. There is so much going on in this song, tons of variation and it is all good.

I think the beat should have maybe kept building intensity at the one-minute mark...I was just starting to get into it. The string patch that took over the melody at 1:30 was sorta weak. It lacked the raw edge that is present in just about every other sound in this piece. I'm diggin the quieter part with the introduction of sound effects and such.

A fair amount of zombie influence. One of the most well-rounded songs I have heard in a long time. Bonus points for working on it a until the end. Great job, this song will contend for the top spot.

My Score: 9.5