So I'm listening to Iron Maiden - Montsegur...
Does the opening remind anyone else of a Nartuo theme?
So I'm listening to Iron Maiden - Montsegur...
Does the opening remind anyone else of a Nartuo theme?
Covers shouldn't be done on Maiden songs, i'm still looking for a decent Maiden cover.
When you mention it, the Montsegur intro actually reminds me of Naruto action music.
Here's a treat for all metal fans, a fanart Ed-vent Calender(you get the joke right?)
http://www.ironmaiden.com/xmascalendar/
All of Dream Theater's Maiden covers are cool.
OMG January 12th, HYPOCRISY, NILE, SOILENT GREEN AND DECAPITATED!!
I'm there bitches.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Better check out those covers then. What songs have they covered?
Quite a few, you can probably find bootlegs of them doing the whole Number of the Beast album
DT is so crazy musically... they do loads of covers, they did a bootleg of the whole Master of Puppets album too. Quality.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
There are more awesome Maiden covers. I love the following:
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Flight of Icarus
Graveworm - Fear of the Dark
Rage - The Trooper
Children of Bodom - Aces High
to name a few...
Another DT fan? Sweeeeeeeeeeet. Now that my DT fan army is assembled.....the two of us can take on terra and his unabated hatred of them and their awesome solos!Originally posted by: The Heretic Azazel
Quite a few, you can probably find bootlegs of them doing the whole Number of the Beast album
DT is so crazy musically... they do loads of covers, they did a bootleg of the whole Master of Puppets album too. Quality.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak
lmao I never said that I hated DT and their solos, I just posted a funny link [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
Still though, I can admit that prog metal is not my favorite genre...
Recent additons to my cd collection is the SENTENCED collection not too bad i like the BLEED track from the DOWN album. I havn't really had the chance to listen to many of the other tracks yet
How much do i suck with photoshop?
was The Next Hokage
aye Sentenced there sounds not too bad quite like it and as PSJ said below The Cold White Light is quality
Ps:keep getting error messages when i try to post
How much do i suck with photoshop?
was The Next Hokage
Put The Cold White Light into your cd player. That album is amazing, quite depressive stuff.
Originally posted by: Terracosmo
There are more awesome Maiden covers. I love the following:
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Flight of Icarus
Graveworm - Fear of the Dark
Rage - The Trooper
Children of Bodom - Aces High
to name a few...
You're right that really just is a few. I've found 51 Maiden covers, currently downloading on DC so i'll update this post everytime i get a new one down.
Here goes the list and rating of the song.
Dark Tranquility - 22 Acacia Avenue
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: Works suprinsingly well as a death metal song, this one i can stick into a Maiden cover album.
Graveworm - Fear of the Dark
Rating: 2 / 5
Comment: I absolutly despise the vocals in this cover, it just doesn't fit this song. There are high points to though, the violins are extremly good and diffrent. Put somewhat clean lyrics in this cover and it would be heaps better.
Children of Bodom - Aces High
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: Again, the vocals are what's dragging this down, the song works well musicly for this band, they upped the tempo a bit but the vocals just doesn't fit, again clean vocals and this one would be amazing.
Avalanch - Run to the Hills
Rating: 1.5 / 5
Comment: Well this is just bad. The tempo is screwed up and the singer doesn't do a very good job on the song, sounds as if the band tried to go with a rockish approach, didn't work at all.
Cradle of Filth - Hallowed be thy Name
Rating: 0 / 5
Comment: These guys shouldn't be allowed to cover any song at all, let them do their own shit so they don't ruin anyone elses work.
Sonata Arctica - Die with your Boots on
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Finally found a cover that works well. I would let these guys cover more Maiden songs.
Sentenced - The Trooper
Rating: 1.5 / 5
Comment: Well this was decent at the very best, it had some good guitar passages but other than that it wasn't very good.
In Flames - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Comment: Works well just like Dark Tranquility's cover. These older Maiden songs seem to work better with growling vocals, it blends better with the rougher sound the older songs had. This i can see myself listen to again.
Ethereal - Fear of the Dark
Rating: 4.5/ 5
Comment: This was absolutly beautiful!! There is hope for correctly done Maiden covers. This song features a beautiful womans voice doing the intro and the choruses while a growling vocalist does the verses, there is also a growling vocalist with a deeper growl doing backup vocals through the entire song.
Musicly they use fluets(sp?), violins, bells. Yea the whole package, this is the best cover yet. Let's see if anyone can top this one. I warmly recommend this one to all of you and especially to Terra and Heretic, i think you boys will like this one.
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Flight of Icarus
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Again a very good cover, they are piling up now it seems. Features good music passaged and just is done in the right way. I would have rated this 3-3.5 if it wasn't for the amazing solo at the end, it was really amazing.
Therion - Children of the Damned
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment: Okay now this one is close to the original but the vocals are aboslute shit, i am not familiar with Therion but i really hope they aren't a band o clean vocals normally, if they are i strongly suggest that they just call it quits. It just pains me to listen to his attempts at singing.
Burden of Grief - Prowler
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Amazingly good vocals, they are growling vocals and it works better than on the In Flames cover. This doesn't feel to far away from Paul's singing on this track actually which is kinda weird.
Armageddon - Die with your Boots on
Rating: 4.5 / 5
Comment: This works pretty well to. Yet again a growling song but it fits pretty good with this particular song, it gives it feeling, a feeling the original really doesn't have in my opinion. The original is just a mediocre Maiden piece while this cover is a gem among all the other shit covers.
Primal Fear - 2 Minutes to Midnight
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: First i almost mistook this for the original. This one is rated so high becuase they keeps true to the original but gives it a special feel, it's hard to point out because it is so subtle but i like it alot.
Tierra Santa - Flight of Icarus
Rating: 4.5 / 5
Comment: This is amazing really. They don't stay trueto the original at all, they innovate as much as they can if they want to call it a cover. This cover is really interesting and shows how much you can do with a song without destroying it, why didn't i stumble upon peices like this one when i found shitholes like Cradle of Filths cover?
Opeth - Remember Tomorrow
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: Well yet another song that is less than an inch form the original, this one however isn't as good as the Primal Fear cover for some unexplainable reason.
Black Abyss - The Trooper
Rating: 0.5 / 5
Comment: When the vocals kicked in in this one it literally sent a chill down my spine, that's how bad it was. There are 2 or 3 people singing, i can't really grasp it as they all suck terribly. One is trying to sound like Bruce and one isn't capabel of striking a clean note, his voice just disappears.
Vital Remains - The Trooper
Rating: 0 / 5
Comment: This is shit, do not get this one. Trust me. It seems that no one is able of doing a decent The Trooper cover.
Darkane - Powerslave
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Again i found a good cover, this cover is done a bit rougher with heavier riffs and vocals. This sounds like it could easily be a song made by this band.
The Storyteller - Moonchild
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: This song doesn't offer alot of new twists and turns, it's basicly just a bit more melodic than the original, it's a good song, just not very interesting.
Iron Savior - Running Free
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Very interesting version of this song, close to the original but production and vocals are heaps better, if Maiden did their first 2 like this they would be even bigger classics.
Grave Digger - Running Free
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: This is a notch lower than Iron Saviors version of this song. Good song, the vocals remind me of Motörhead but hearing this right after Iron Savior's version clearly shows that it just don't cut it.
Delusion - 22 Acacia Avenue
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Comment: This song is very close to the original, not in any way a bad cover but it justdoesn't offer anything diffrent. The singer even sounds like Bruce.
I would give Dark Tranquillity's cover a bit higher rating. It's one of the few covers I heard that I can even compare to the original. It feels "right."
I don't see Arch Enemy's cover of Aces High. I hope you're getting that one [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_(band)
scroll near to the bottom and you'll see a list of covers.
Yea, that one is coming up.
There are more than half of them left so don't worry you'll find close to any cover you have ever heard about.
The reason i didn't rate Dark Tranquility's cover higher is because i didn't feel it flowed good enough, it's hard to explain.
You didn't even rate any Dream Theater covers!
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
They're coming up man.
I'm listening through the the Number of the beast album cover right now. I'll rate the whole album once i have listened to it all.
currently listening to:
3 Inches of Blood - "Deadly Sinners"
Arch Enemy - "End of the Line"
At the Gates - "Need"
Carcass - "Heartwork"
Extol - "Gloriana"
Eyes of Fire - "Fly Away"
In Flames - "Touch of Red"
Into Enternity - "Spiraling Into Depression"
Lamb of God - "A Devil in God's Country"
Nightrage - "Being Nothing"
Shadows Fall - "What Drives the Weak"
Trivium - "Like Light to the Flies"
good stuff...
I'm curious on what you have to say about Mago de Oz's cover on Strange World, as I haven't heard it yet. Actually, I haven't even heard the original. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
I just listened to Nocturnal Rites' version of Wasted Years (my favorite Maiden song), and I'll have to say that the original was much better. The cover felt sloppy, I don't really know how to describe it...
Didn't know Mago de Oz made a coveron that song, interesting.
I better get going again with the reviewing of the songs, quite some songs left.
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