Why do piano covers of metal songs sound so damn awesome

[Revson]

Ok, so here is The Human Abstract's "Patterns"



And here is a piano cover of the same song



Both versions I really like, but the piano version sounds like something that Danny Elfman (composer for most Tim Burton movies) would write.

I don't really know what the topic of this thread would be, I guess just start posting videos of cool piano covers? There's a chick on youtube with the screenname of "vkgoeswild" that has a shitload of piano covers that you should check out.

 

[SimonTaddio_Qc]

Piano by itself rocks like hell. You can play so many voices compared to a shitload of other instrument, it's just crazy.
I didn't came caross some cool piano metal cover lately, but if you're into Video games music, definately check out Final Fantasy's music in piano collection, this is priceless

 

[NoDestiny]

I can't get enough of that awesomeness myself!

 

[AdamG94]

I love that Human Abstract cover!

This is pretty funny though:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLzuZIvQDwU&feature=related[/ame]

 

[ahjteam]

The thing with piano is that it brings out the pure songwriting of the song instead of relying on the "sounds" and it will bring out the strenghts and weaknesses of the songwriting. If the songwriting works, it will work with just piano sound. For example:

With orchestral sounds:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/ahjteam_serenade_v02.mp3

With electric piano + percussions:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1338211/ahjteam/vanhat/ahjteam_serenade_v02_piano.mp3

 

[espartaco]

+1 to the final fantasy music and everything nobuo uematsu has ever write on a piano.

 

[theRev]

 

[metalfanat1c]

 

[wishtheend]

This guy is awesome. Ended up being the keyboard player for Ashes Divide (Billy Howerdel's band). He's got a bunch of other covers on his page.

 

[Revson]

No one will do a full BTBAM cover. Pussies.

 

[Trevoire520]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgdAWEmqfc&hd=1[/ame]

 

[Kenny Lee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgdAWEmqfc&hd=1

Hahahaha... that Eddy pic reminds me of Chris Rock! Buhahaha

 

[jeid]

 

[jeid]

Oh, this one is also awesome!

 

[Brady k]

 

[kev]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lgdAWEmqfc&hd=1

 

[MetalAaron]

Someone did Burden by Opeth and totally blew me away. Also, Where Dead Angles Lie by Dissection. Talk about epic.

 

[Ryuno]

same guy from the The Faceless cover being awesome again with some BoO.

 

[AD Chaos]

It doesn't get any better than this:

 

[ApeScaleConflict]

Salo - performing All Shall Perish's "There is no business to be done on a dead planet"