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The Best Cover Song
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| "Lai Lai Hei" is one of Ensiferum's most known songs, due to its epic length and the fantastic chorus perfectly crafted for a drunk metalhead to sing along to. Fferyllt (try pronouncing that while severely intoxicated) do the epic track justice with their own rendition. A worthy shot at a little more fame. |
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| Only available on the digipack edition of Grave Digger's latest, Ballads Of A Hangman, so perhaps not too known among the larger crowd of metalheads. There's only one response we can give to that sad fact: tube it! The Germans covering Thin Lizzy may be an odd combination, especially on a Death-themed album, but the happy and rugged bonus track turns out a nice break in character. |
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| Tarja's My Winter Storm, the great exam after her departure from Nightwish, was received with mixed reviews. Nightwish-lite, bland, uninspired... But fortunately one man saw potential in one of her songs and with that one being none other than Mr. Jørn Lande, the end result was bound to be great. "I Walk Alone" is now an incredibly powerful track graced by Mr. Lande's epic and strong vocals. Great one. |
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| While Leaves' Eyes certainly aren't the first band to perform a version of this ancient traditional song (they were one of three metal bands to do one this year in fact!) they've produced a very nice version of it. A slow flute/acoustic start builds to heavier guitars and then quite an epic sound with thundering drums. Liv Kristine puts on a great vocal performance here as well as the band's version of Scarborough Fair becomes a worthy cover and a nice addition to their Njord album. |
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Netherbird - Firmament Vacation (The Soundtrack Of Our Lives)
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| Last year Sweden's Netherbird released a four-tracker with some inspiring cover songs on it. One of them being this sublime TSOOL cover. This cover has the same spirit as the original, but the music's turned up a notch, making this a totally different though finger licking good song. Very successful performance. |
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Netherbird - Nepenthe (Sentenced)
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| After Sentenced's departure from the metalworld it was waiting for bands to pay tribute to this important and grandiose band. Netherbird was one of the bands to take up this task and their cover of "Nepenthe" does the song more than justice. So long (and thanks for all the fish), Sentenced! |
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| Without the traditional slow introduction to this song, Vader show they aren't mucking around with this Metallica cover. They do more or less stick to the original formula albeit with harder and faster (maybe even better!) drumming and harsher vocals/sounds in general. With the original song being a great one, as long as you execute your cover well enough you'll make it a successful one. Vader have well and truly done this, therefore their Fight Fire With Fire rendition should be praised. |
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| For a Gothic Metal band to choose a song from the same style to cover as presumably more of a tribute, Vanguard have made an excellent choice. One of Type O Negative's best songs, Vanguard do it no injustice. The use of violins for the keyboard parts, female clean vocals and growls (sometimes harmonised even) give a nice twist to an already fantastic song. Vanguard have come out with a great homage. |
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| As with the other cover song on W.A.S.P.'s latest, this is another one which is most certainly a tribute to more founders of our harder-edged genre genre (albeit not as broad as Chuck Berry). As much as it is paying homage, it's also as if Blackie is reminding us all of the power he carries in his vocals. Over the years there has been piles upon piles of cliche Deep Purple tributes, never before has one done that band justice as W.A.S.P. have. Not only is this a fine bow to some forefathers, but it's also building off of a great legacy - standing on the shoulders of giants as some might say. |
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| With this one W.A.S.P. are going back, way back - all the way back to rock n rolls embryonic state, paying homage to the one and only Chuck Berry. Though the warbling vocals are a dead giveaway that the true tribute is to another performer of this age old rock n roll anthem (Elvis Presley), the sentiment behind it is genuine nonetheless, and what's wrong with tipping your hat to 2 pioneers simultaneously? |
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