This is probably old news to a few members, but with a future issue of Kerrang (The one released next week, I believe) there will be a free cd entitled Maiden Heaven which, as the title suggests, will be made up of Iron Maiden covers. They include Wrathchild by Gallows, Hallowed Be Thy Name by Machine Head, and To Tame A Land by Dream Theater. The full tracklist will be in tomorrow's issue, then again it's probably out there already for all I know.
Full tracklist: Black Tide - Prowler Metallica - Remember Tomorrow Avenged Sevenfold - Flash of the Blade Glamour of the Kill - 2 Minutes To Midnight Coheed and Cambria - The Trooper Devildriver - Wasted Years Sign - Run To The Hills Dream Theater - To Tame A Land Madina Lake - Caught Somewhere in Time Gallows - Wrathchild Fightstar - Fear of the Dark Machine Head - Hallowed Be Thy Name Trivium - Iron Maiden Year Long Disaster - Running Free Ghostlines - Brave New World
Fightstar covering Fear Of The Dark????? That sounds interesting although I don't think any cover of that song could be better than the Graveworm cover.
Interesting group of bands. I'll reserve judgment until I actually hear it, but I'm expecting some pure comedy out of the Madina Lake and Devildriver covers. xD
Holy hell, about damn time Coheed did a proper recording of The Trooper. They've only been doing it live on and off for about the past 6 years.
I don't know anything about Black Tide, other than how their members are all supposed to be about 15, haha.
Black Tide do at least write more old school riffs, so they should do a fairly decent job of it. Hell yeah for a proper version of Coheed doing The Trooper, but oh dear. Madina Lake and Maiden? Or Gallows for that matter...they have bad written all over them, but I could be wrong... Those two just make me think of FFAF trying (and failing) to cover Damage Inc. on the Metallica one.
well, in regards to gallows they are more than reasonable with their instruments. i believe that's a di'anno song as well so the vocals won't be as hard as with bruce. as for ffaf's metallica cover, the instrumentation was pretty much spot on from what i remember, but neither of their lead vocalists are really suited to covering metallica. unfortunately i can't seem to listen to the samples on here. maybe later then.
so. it's out today. i got it. one or two aren't much cop. a few are really good. the gallows track definitely is. for the most part it's solid, really. the trivium one has screaming in it.