Need this song to be covered by an elite metal band !!

[Bryant]

Look at these old gray guys !! Then again, LISTEN to this song. This has to be one of the most eerie sounding songs ever recorded. I don't know that it can be topped. It HAS been covered..... the best I have heard was by some band called Bobaflex, but it still didn't compare.



Bryant

 

[wdiv]

Nevermore's version would be the obvious one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uG7sd-YPmE

QR did a great job with another S&G song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcwQlGjNqrs

 

[Wyvern]

I like the original. I'm afraid of a metal cover of it, special by a crappy band.

 

[Bryant]

I like the original. I'm afraid of a metal cover of it, special by a crappy band.

Yeah, I think only a handful of bands could do this one justice. Obviously, Vanden Plas comes to my mind. They are melodic enough (and Stephan is quite the acoustic guitarist) to pull it off.

Bryant

 

[Bryant]

One funny thing about this song, is that I could put that video on ANY metal forum except maybe one with a huge majority of really young guys on an extreme metal sub-forum..... and get almost ALL positive feedback. Simon and Garfunkel is pretty far and away from being anything close to metal. The Sound of Silence, however, is one of the absolute few songs that ANY genre/sub-genre of music would love to claim as their own.

 

[poundingmetal74]

It could be metalized I suppose. Not really dying to hear this one with electric guitars though.

As wdiv said, Ryche already recorded Scarborough Fair, and IMO that's as good as that song will ever get.

 

[kuier]

Atrocity also gave it a bash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJtQqDsTAiA
and Awakening gave it Type O flavor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8s7cBqfK0

by fave cover is
Heir Apparent giving it a QR'esque treatment .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJXOaYgjd50

 

[Bryant]

The Heir Apparent isn't awful. However, it isn't awesome either. That song HAS to have the harmony vocals at some point to be valid.

Bryant

 

[Wyvern]

Savage Blade from Canada

https://soundcloud.com/savageblade/the-sound-of-silence-simon-garfunkel-cover

 

[Bryant]

Savage Blade from Canada

https://soundcloud.com/savageblade/the-sound-of-silence-simon-garfunkel-cover

Awesome !!!!

Bryant

 

[CiG]

Bitches Sin covered it.

 

[Bryant]

Bitches Sin covered it.

Not awful, but it doesn't have that eeriness to it without the harmony vocals. The original song is folk music, a LONG way from metal, but it has such a dark and eerie sound to it. No cover has been able to touch it that I have heard.

 

[Bryant]

Ask and you shall receive, I suppose. Just ran into this.........



Wouldn't call myself a "fan" of Disturbed, but there are several songs of them I like. After this, I have a new found DEEP respect for them. They kept the beautiful haunting melody intact of the original (minus the harmony vocals mind you) but still did it their own unique way. This is brilliant !!