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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

What's the game called?

@justmetal227

2 жыл бұрын

Damn man this game is COOL

@icelandicbanks6473

2 жыл бұрын

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

@rufocs686

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

^^^ right?

@jimthethirdprobably

2 жыл бұрын

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

@MaximeBriseboisLemelin

2 жыл бұрын

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

@sergiogonzalesYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimthethirdprobably LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

@billgr9892

2 жыл бұрын

@@NikNocturnal bro can you show the tabs

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

@Jasonmakesvideo

Жыл бұрын

the real world version of the game is joey sturgis

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

@wingnutmcspazatron3957

Жыл бұрын

For real, I would watch that.

@ykristianhd

Жыл бұрын

Yeesss

@Kenya_Sokdeez35

Жыл бұрын

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

@casualcyberguy1314

Жыл бұрын

@@Kenya_Sokdeez35 Battle of the budget

@s0t3rwon_teoktheeviloneskr76

Жыл бұрын

@@Kenya_Sokdeez35 🤯

I think you know that we all want a guitar cover

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

;)

@Coverine

2 жыл бұрын

@@NikNocturnal We do!

@gabrielcastle3071

2 жыл бұрын

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

@johnny_s6890

2 жыл бұрын

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

@SuperRedhawk13

2 жыл бұрын

FUCK YES

I like how the creator of the game took care of details and made animations that actually play the right notes

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

^^ Who ever made this game definitely made it out of pure love of music

@JoeFermaint

2 жыл бұрын

@@NikNocturnal Shout out to Marco Arsenault, AKA Evil-Dog

@theokayesttino4998

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeFermaint Das our boi! Check out the other games he made. Road of The Dead was awesome

@milangabris9494

2 жыл бұрын

they can play some cover song from the list of the covers and the creator added song from his band too .. it´s called Rebirth and I like it so much that I had to learn it on guitar :D

@EvilDogProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@NikNocturnal I DID :D xox

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

@syahminorizan8064

Ай бұрын

He might need a double kick pedal

@Oscar-Barrett

Ай бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

Better than sum 41 these days

@joeysfieldherpingadventure8861

Жыл бұрын

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

@mybandpigvomithas3sales200

Жыл бұрын

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

@juliotorres3147

Жыл бұрын

@@joeysfieldherpingadventure8861 people still suffer from nostalgia

@Houraisan47

3 ай бұрын

thats wildly accurate

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

2 жыл бұрын

I'll call it 000-000

@jrkern

2 жыл бұрын

@@NikNocturnal When's the vinyl dropping?

@seanfay6481

2 жыл бұрын

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

@carcher4525

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Annatar3019

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@EnergeticSpark63

Жыл бұрын

hey

@Paradox_Edge

9 ай бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

@@bigbananadealer846 hey

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

Жыл бұрын

it's amazing detail

@queasyweasel

11 ай бұрын

fr fr

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

@CheapSushi

Жыл бұрын

yeah seriously

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@gabrielrex

2 жыл бұрын

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

@pentexsucks43

2 жыл бұрын

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

@CheapSushi

Жыл бұрын

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

*I like Metalcore*

@x_the_fucking_dead_soul_x9687

2 жыл бұрын

Same my friend my addiction 🤘🔥

@seabass-first-class4547

2 жыл бұрын

Very Waking the Fallen

@into_the_void

2 жыл бұрын

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

@dmitry3269

2 жыл бұрын

I love too

@alfonsonovasco

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not a phase!!!!

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

@I_K_Noyes215

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@I_K_Noyes215 Dude, it's Treytes! wuddup! haha

@I_K_Noyes215

2 жыл бұрын

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

@DrVoodoo

2 жыл бұрын

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

@I_K_Noyes215

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

You can actually get so much content from this game

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

;)

@jaredfarney675

2 жыл бұрын

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

@PlyerMute

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gus, but I think you blew up.

@bjornboi1175

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@antiquagoluboy

2 жыл бұрын

with toli wild

@mpk6664

2 жыл бұрын

Where's Andy?

@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce

2 жыл бұрын

this has Matt Heafy written all over it

@lukestange

2 жыл бұрын

we need andy cizek on the mic

@MonoGrinded

2 жыл бұрын

@Ian Ramírez Exactly who I was imagining!!

Hahah man this hits all the nostalgia. Newgrounds itself was huge when I was a kid. You can tell how old Punkomatic is just by reading the stickers on the drumset. "No more Bush" in particular lol.

@Jixsurez

2 жыл бұрын

Miss me yet?

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

@CheapSushi

10 ай бұрын

lol

Nik should make full album only using this game

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe ;)

@DannySlept

2 жыл бұрын

hahahah yes

@jaredfarney675

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! 578 album 🤘🏻

@kinkinkijkin

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Up

Okay, this didn't have to go so hard.. IT'S A FLASH GAME! This is insane. You should do a cover of this song for real!

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

what is the name of the game?

@janaxelblomberg7768

2 жыл бұрын

@@cadaverflesh it’s in the description

@jonstyles5093

2 жыл бұрын

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

@bigbananadealer846

3 ай бұрын

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

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

@m1k3l1f3

2 жыл бұрын

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

@todessehnsucht

2 жыл бұрын

YES!!!

@syazaplays3303

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Kenya_Sokdeez35

2 жыл бұрын

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

@CheapSushi

Жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

Wait actually? Let's gooo!

@LordPryde

2 жыл бұрын

What’s the mp3 converter called?

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Someone did a cover for this already. This is insane dude this has to be a real song

@user-bi1ij3tk2w

3 ай бұрын

Can you link to it please?

MY BOY, THIS SHIT, MADE ME LEARN MUSIC! I FUCKING LOVE THIS. I miss the PoM community.

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

^^^^

@kinkinkijkin

2 жыл бұрын

oh hey tino

@I_K_Noyes215

2 жыл бұрын

I miss the community as well, man. Too bad the website went. smh.

@rhysharford

2 жыл бұрын

Dude this was literally my gateway into writing music! This and the guitar hero custom song creator lol

@theokayesttino4998

2 жыл бұрын

@@I_K_Noyes215 OH HEY Ian!

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

Жыл бұрын

what’s your artist name?

@dmitriyk.4991

Жыл бұрын

I’d check that shit out

@F4sy

Жыл бұрын

Where it at

@anopirsten7565

Жыл бұрын

what is it?

@piroshk1968

Жыл бұрын

ayo link?

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

GALACTICRIMINAL!!!!

@graphsicimagevinyls5882

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@seanwald2249

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheSevenkiller

Жыл бұрын

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

3 ай бұрын

@@TheSevenkillerAgreed

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

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

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

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

@charlesjones9860

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

2 жыл бұрын

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

@charlesjones9860

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

That was awesome, man, I used to write stuff in the morning, and finish it when I came back from school. Deffinitely, the first game and this one were my favorite flash games back in the day!

Waking the Fallen is my fav album of all time, Second Heartbeat is still my fav song to play and I've been playing for 23 years since I was 10. I love the lead and the solo in Second Heartbeat, also the last track "And all things will end" has such a sick main riff and lead.

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

2 жыл бұрын

5-7-8 always gets me hyped

PLEASE make a real song of this, this is sick...!! It's gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of the day...

@vincentmasterbassist6784

2 жыл бұрын

I second. Record the whole thing.

@justinkorzhanenkaudwine5721

2 жыл бұрын

99999999% agreed

What a trip down memory lane. I still remember a ton of these riffs from the game. This is the content I didnt know I needed. 😂

At 0:55 i feel hurt! I play the bass!

This is how BFMV write their songs

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

I'm just seeing this now, but damn that turned out pretty sweet. I would legit love to hear vocals over this. That was fun Nik

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

i remember being 9 or 10 playing punk-o-matic and being really drawn into it. the like band manager cussed and my mom heard it said i couldn't play it anymore lmao, this brings back memories

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

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :D

@WingMaster562

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

yeah this is insane

@ivory_lion

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

Jesus christ this used to be my favorite game as a kid and I completely forgot about it until now, thanks

This is one hell of a well made Flash game

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

@FORGOTTENMINDFREAK23

2 жыл бұрын

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

@pixelplays964

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

Bahaha this is mint, Nick. Love the pick slide outro!

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 😆

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

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

Same

I remember playing the original first game for hours at a time and coming up with what teenager me thought was gold. This game is so much more in depth than i remember, I miss this stuff!

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

This does put a smile on my face. Thank you sir!

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU for watching

This had absolutely NO right being this good lmao

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.

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

Matt Heafy secretly taking notes for his next album :'D

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

2 жыл бұрын

Timeless game

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

so weird, not only was playing with this back in the day that got me interested in DAWs, but i was randomly thinking about this today.

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

@NikNocturnal

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the 2nd one had SOOO many new features

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!!!

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

This was sick to watch dude!!!

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

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

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

Thank you for creating this video, I completely forgot this game even existed haha! Also wicked song

When I was young right before I got my first electric guitar, I legit thought only pussies used guitar straps. Never mind every famous guitarist in every picture I had seen up to that point was using a strap, I really thought I had to build up my strength so I wouldn't be a pansy who couldn't hang. Glad to see I was right all along.

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

We need more of this

Instant subbed. NEED MOAR

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!

Can we get Andy to do some vocals on this?

Bro this game was the BOMB! Basically got me into metal and I'm so glad I discovered it

Sick. Love your content

Imagine if Nik made an entire album like this 🤔

@madmanadam1

2 жыл бұрын

im going to be real with you, he wouldn't be the first. there was a whole community of us back in the day

HOLY SHIT YOU PLAYED PUNK-O-MATIC! Dude, that brought back memories for me. I used to be a part of its community. I had like two bands, solo shit, I recorded Pomcasts (basically Punk-O-Matic podcast stuff). Dude, that was awesome! 😝

@I_K_Noyes215

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, hold up... Drac Alucard here. What was your username back in the day? lol

I played so much this game with my brothers when I was kid. Amazing song bro, cheers from Brazil.

As a drummer I gotta say those drums are too realistic

"What? You're giving up already? You're useless!" Ahhh, just like a real bandmember.

holy shit dude. I played the first Punk-O-Matic game like 15 years ago. Had blast creating music and jamming my own riffs lol.

Bro this is genuinely sick!

Bro you should do a series where you make an album on here you would have my view every time so good though, I remember the original punk-o-matic 1 on new grounds been a hot minute

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

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

Thanks for reminding me of this game. I played this many years ago. Also great job on that track. 😅

You just dragged the waters of my mind with this one.

Bro, I miss playing this back in the day. Was really cool hearing what other people made as well

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

This song is insane! What a amazing job on the game

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