Metal Hammer Dimebag Tribute disc
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Zehm
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I thought they did a great job on gates. as good as or better than I ever imagined and FAR better than I expected. almost seems a shame that they won't play it live.
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overthrown
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evilematt
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Chipmonkcheeks
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MetallicSlayerDeth
Staring into your soul...
Caveman Ninja
It's a carnival... of monsters!
Chipmonkcheeks
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richiebalboa
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Have Kiuas been hunted down and brought to book for their heresy? If they had any respect at all, they'd never have released that festering puddle of runny shit!
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D.Ingram
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Have Kiuas been hunted down and brought to book for their heresy? If they had any respect at all, they'd never have released that festering puddle of runny shit!
This. Also, 5FDP.
siobhan!
Street Team shindiggery.
Have Kiuas been hunted down and brought to book for their heresy? If they had any respect at all, they'd never have released that festering puddle of runny shit!
Have you heard Kiuas' previous work or judging purely on a 'cover version' of a song, a cover means it's open to personal interpretation.
D.Ingram
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I'm all for personal interpretation, but not butchery. Then again, covering a song like This Love - or almost anything by Pantera for that matter - requires balls. Big ones, the size of Saturn. It was inevitable that at least a few covers were going to be shite.
siobhan!
Street Team shindiggery.
And Mr Wylde's interpretation wasn't a bit gash? Yeah there were a few ones but I think 'respect' can't really be brought into the matter, the bands produced what they believe in their opinions to be a sound cover version. Meh.
D.Ingram
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Indeed but in covering songs that are essentially Godly to most, you can really drop yourself in the shit if you do it badly. Thats just how things go - of course I wouldn't 'disown' Evile if Cemetery Gates had turned out shit for example. Covering Pantera requires either massive balls from people who know what they're doing, or relentless stupidity from bands who don't have a fucking clue of what they'e doing. Pantera songs are, for the most part, not supposed to be touched. Ever. But if a band goes 'Yeah e can pull this off successfully' then more power to them.
One example would be a Sheffield band called Soul Shredder - I saw them at the Bar Abbey earlier in the year, and one of the other bands had pulled out so these people decided to do a covers set before their main one. Now I'm all for bands doing covers, I think its amazing, but as I mentione with the Pantera thing thre are certain bands or songs that should never EVER be covered under any circumstances, so when this band utterly destroyed Tornado of Souls and Hall of the Mountain King, needless to say I was pissed off as hell. Worst bit was, they didn't even play the songs correctly either - so of course, it seemed that they didn't think it through. Two songs that are off limits to everyone on earth for a good reason, you know?
Some people call it petty, they can fuck right off really. Thats just how it is with cover songs, you either do the song justice or you don't do it at all - it's an incredible and entirely welcome surprise when you get the really good ones (in relation to the Dimebag tribute, Cemetery Gates and Sandblasted Skin come to mind) but overall, a lot of songs are est left untouched entirely. The number of Pantera, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura and Destruction songs I've heard butchered beyond the point of it being funny is painful.
/rant
Also, tits.
One example would be a Sheffield band called Soul Shredder - I saw them at the Bar Abbey earlier in the year, and one of the other bands had pulled out so these people decided to do a covers set before their main one. Now I'm all for bands doing covers, I think its amazing, but as I mentione with the Pantera thing thre are certain bands or songs that should never EVER be covered under any circumstances, so when this band utterly destroyed Tornado of Souls and Hall of the Mountain King, needless to say I was pissed off as hell. Worst bit was, they didn't even play the songs correctly either - so of course, it seemed that they didn't think it through. Two songs that are off limits to everyone on earth for a good reason, you know?
Some people call it petty, they can fuck right off really. Thats just how it is with cover songs, you either do the song justice or you don't do it at all - it's an incredible and entirely welcome surprise when you get the really good ones (in relation to the Dimebag tribute, Cemetery Gates and Sandblasted Skin come to mind) but overall, a lot of songs are est left untouched entirely. The number of Pantera, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura and Destruction songs I've heard butchered beyond the point of it being funny is painful.
/rant
Also, tits.
D.Ingram
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tl;dr - If you're going to cover a classic, know for sure that you'll do it justice or accept the hazing.
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