Petition for SX to do phantom of the opera.

[Yngvai X]

i didnt know that was a cover.... who did it first?

I meant SymX should cover those songs, not that they were already covers when said bands played them.

 

[Thraxz]

I'd prefer Sy X write and original song about one of The Crusades.

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

Well, I guess I should retract my statement as I was out of line. I haven't heard any of the complete score to Phantom of the Opera, so I shouldn't have commented that it was gay. I was drawing from most other musicals I've heard music from (i.e. Titanic) and most of it was quite gay. for musicals I don't think that's a bad thing, but I just don't see how they could be converted to metal. I guess I'm just not interested to find out, that's all I'm saying. Hey, maybe it would be awesome, who knows.

Trust me, a classic like Phantom of the Opera is quite a bit better than Titanic. No real comparision can be made - Titanic sucked. That's the equivalent of someone hearing Linkin Park and basing their opinion of metal on it.

 

[L. Knight]

Off Topic, but related to the thread.
Some of you mentioned that there's an interpretation of E.Bathory's life in "Dressed to Kill". I didn't know who she was until now that you mentioned her, so I instantly looked for a biography. After reading from different sources, I couldn't find any hard clue about the relationship between that story and the song.
I mean, the song could totally be about something else. Sure there are a lot of metaphores that could fit Bathory's story, but there's nothing really characteristic about it to relate to, unlike the case in Through The Looking Glass, for example.
It looks like either it's about something else or it's way loosely inspired by it, unless someone could help me showing some biography facts that prove the point.

 

[-Rivfader-]

Nightwish already has a pretty cool version of it. The Iced Earth one on their Horror Show album is pretty cool too.

 

[mask_x]

@L.Knight

Then the same has happend to you as has happened to me concerning Dwot. I always thought, Dwot was about Dante's "Divine Comedy". Never had had the idea of connecting it to Milton's "Paradise Lost".

Concerning Barthory:Why don't you start on wikipedia an go on from that point?

Another suggestion: Why don't SymX do an interpretation of Cervantes' "Don Quichote"?

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

There are only two lines in DWoT that relate to "The Divine Comedy."

I really do think, thouh, that if SX did a song that was styled a lot like Masquerade, they could totally work Phantom of the Opera into it.

 

[scanner313]

Trust me, a classic like Phantom of the Opera is quite a bit better than Titanic. No real comparision can be made - Titanic sucked. That's the equivalent of someone hearing Linkin Park and basing their opinion of metal on it.

Yeah, I saw Titanic with some girl who was really into musicals (performing as well). I have to say, I didn't get what all the hooplah was about. I really didn't find anything interesting about it at all. Musicals just aren't my thing.

 

[scanner313]

Anyone know if "Chursch of the Machine" was based on anything, or is it completely original? I love that freakin' song!!!

 

[L. Knight]

I've already checked wikipedia (not a great reliable source but a good start) and other Bathory related sites. But maybe there are more pieces of information unknown from what I read that link the song to the Bathory theme.

The song talks about a "he" that's being murdered by a "queen", who's in a "chair", there's a "canvas"... a lot of words that I don't relate to the Bathory story and I don't think that they have a double-meaning (maybe "queen" instead of "duchess", but the other ones, who knows...)

 

[duffman7p]

if they do phantom of the opera they should do a whole album of covers of non-pop music. ex. the firebird - igor stravinsky, in the hall of the mountian king - wagner, and bunch of john williams peices

 

[rockyracoon]

i would not support ANY cover making it on a SX album. it would only take up room for another original. the proper forum for any cover, and i would hope it wouldnt be phantom of the opera, is a live show.

 

[Thraxz]

I'd like it as a bonus track somewhere...

I reiterate my request for a Crusades song. Or Ghengis Khan.

EDIT: It's Quixote... I think.

 

[Markoism]

That song has been done to death. If they cover a song I'd like it to be something unexpected.