Master of Puppets tribute album

Ph3n0m

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=49949

Scared or just plain curious?

Doctor J

Scared in a terribly curious way. I have the feeling I'll get it and then spend the next few moths putting it on intermittantly to verify it sucks as much as I thought it did.

Damn, why did they pick such typically Kerrang bands, apart from Mastodon? They could have gotten bands whose career won't be over when emo fades away and put out something really interesting, instead they've just picked the bands of the moment, destined to be forgotten

I mean... Fightstar... for ****s sake.

And as for the artwork.... wow... jaysus... :eek:



Have you heard Dream Theater's cover of Master Of Puppets (the entire album)?

Karl Hungus

Apart from Mastodon, that sounds absolutely horrible.

Ph3n0m

Dream Theater - now that is a glorious cover

I like the artwork - shows which bands will be killed off soon

As for Fightstar - dont you mean that new band with a former member of Busted in its ranks - FFS!!!!!!!!

This album could have been great, but noooooooo Kerrang had to get their claws into it....sad, really sad

However on a side note, I heard Nightwish's cover of "Over the Hill..." - quite horrifying

Karl Hungus

Speaking of covers, Sonata Arctica's version of Fade To Black was quite excellent.

phantom_lord

Ph3n0m wrote:

I like the artwork - shows which bands will be killed off soon

Very true

Whiskeyjack

Karl Hungus wrote:

Apart from Mastodon, that sounds absolutely horrible.

I agree, apart from Chimaira and maybe machine head.I mean Funeral for a friend and Bullet for my Valentine?Back then Metallica were about Anger and Passion, not whining 'cos my suburban white picket fence is so unfullfilling and screaming like a little whinging pussy.

LundiMardi

I actually had a dream last night that Trivium died in a plain crash, i've never even heard any of their songs

Back to the topic at hand >>> fúcktards!

Wouldn't Metallica have to give permission for this to happen?

El_mariachi

"Wouldn't Metallica have to give permission for this to happen?" yup and for somereason they did, all i say is those bands **** this up they're little emo heads would no what hit them

wow that scary, i never thought lars would give anyone the chance to record his songs, after the napster ****, but its ok its being given a way for free at least,

"The CD will be given away free with Kerrang! issue 1102, which goes on sale April 5."

Ph3n0m

that said, I have heard Machine Head do Metallica covers before (live) and they were quite good as covers go


http://www.machinehead1.com/media/video/Battery_1_Hi.asf - 5 minute clip of MH talking and rehearsing for the album

LundiMardi

Anyone catch Metallica: ICON on Mtv a year or two ago, there were some good covers on that, Limp Bizkit & Korn being the best imo. I'm just trying to get Sum41 and that chick with the tie out of my head.

Ph3n0m

LundiMardi wrote:

Anyone catch Metallica: ICON on Mtv a year or two ago, there were some good covers on that, Limp Bizkit & Korn being the best imo. I'm just trying to get Sum41 and that chick with the tie out of my head.

Korn and Limp Bizkit - are you kidding that whole show was just cringing to watch.

IMO, not one band did their respective Metallica song justice - typical MTV - roll out some popular bands to do covers of a band trying to get onto MTV

LundiMardi

na, i though Korn(i hate Korn by the by) and Limp Bizdick did good covers, the rest were ****e, especially Staind, i've never actually heard anything worse than that staind performance!

Ph3n0m

you mean Avril Lavigne didnt make ears want to turn inside out?

LundiMardi

She was better than Staind in all fairness.

neGev

Looks like a bag of shyte. The Mastodon cover might be decent, the rest will suck balls.
Awful, awful idea, from start to finish.

Karl Hungus

LundiMardi wrote:

She was better than Staind in all fairness.

At least she's extremely attractive. I would certainly like to stick my penis into her vagina and create friction. Plus, she's Canadian. Who doesn't have a thing for chicks who say 'Aboot'?

Louisiana

i know its off the topic but did you know trivium is supporting iron maiden this year

LundiMardi

Karl Hungus wrote:

At least she's extremely attractive. I would certainly like to stick my penis into her vagina and create friction. Plus, she's Canadian. Who doesn't have a thing for chicks who say 'Aboot'?

That's what i like about you, subtle.

Pyr0

This is going to be really really bad, what the hell are FFAF doing there ? And Fightstar ?!? Christ what is the "Metal" world coming to :rolleyes:

Now Pantera - Seek and Destroy is one savage cover !!

mickymg2003

What about Motorheads cover of enter sandman...sounded exactly like the original...sept with slightly differen vocals.

Couldnt have picked worse bands TBH.

Ugh!! Fightstar covering leper messiah...*cringe*

LundiMardi

At least we can all bask in the knowledge that it CAN'T be as bad as Metallica's cover of Whiskey in the Jar:D

Ph3n0m

LundiMardi wrote:

At least we can all bask in the knowledge that it CAN'T be as bad as Metallica's cover of Whiskey in the Jar:D

there are worse covers of that song out there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_in_the_Jar

It wasn't me!

Mendeed aren't actually too abd, saw them a while back. I'd like to see what Mastodon do for Metallica as well. Hold out very little hope for the album as a whole though.

dimerocks

In fairness to limp bizkit and korn i thoguht there covers were not too bad at all. the rest of the show was bad. the album will be awful but i will buy it for mastodon on MH and for the curiostity of hearing ****estar

Sofaspud

Karl Hungus wrote:

At least she's extremely attractive. I would certainly like to stick my penis into her vagina and create friction. Plus, she's Canadian. Who doesn't have a thing for chicks who say 'Aboot'?

Beautiful way with words, has our KH.

Anyway, what the hell is going on with this album? The bands are in no way worthy of the album. really, Fightstar?

God, imagine that ridiculous "hop" thing during leper messiah . . .
*shudders*

Devious

Funnily enough iv been listening to Dream Theater's Master of Puppets album quite a lot lately; I highly recommend it.

I wont pass judgement on this Kerrang offering just yet though, interested to hear Mastodon's take on Orion.

Ruaidhri

So, who'd be a good choice of bands to do it?
I've heard Dream Theater's version, it's pretty good.

I think it'd be funny to pick a bunch of Black / Death bands to do a new, heavier version of this

gizmo

Hrm, I'm not really surprised, they're just playing to their typical audience as usual and so I'm not even going to bother going down the "What if..." road.

On the other hand I quite like BFMV material so far and would consider myself a fan of Trivium so I'm not THAT much against those two bands. Mastodon and Machine Head will be great imho. Not really sure about Chimaira as I've only heard a few of their songs. As for FFAF and Fightstar though...WTF?

Ph3n0m

and yet this album was released several years ago - and I am sorry to say the quality of bands are far better then who is lined up for the "pastor of muppets" album (I will point out that I own neither album )

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000589AZ/sr=8-1/qid=1143105506/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2215662-8325452?%5Fencoding=UTF8

even this tribute album is great

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CC866/sr=8-3/qid=1143105506/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-2215662-8325452?%5Fencoding=UTF8

but as we all know Apocalyptica do the best covers

gokgok

looks like a pile of ****.

Somnus

Looks pretty sh*t but I'm interested in hearing it.

The artwork is so bad though

senordingdong

I don't think it sounds too bad.

Untill I saw 'Fightstar'.
Then I got sick in my throat a little.

pbsuxok1znja4r

You may well moan about some of the 'poppier' choice of artists on it (and I may well agree), but on the other hand, I really don't see the point of having metal bands cover another metal band's music. It's just old; recycled and recycled. What you want is a different genre's take on the music.

Karl Hungus wrote:

At least she's extremely attractive. I would certainly like to stick my penis into her vagina and create friction. Plus, she's Canadian. Who doesn't have a thing for chicks who say 'Aboot'?

Maybe, but I don't see how that counts for anything when you're sat listening to a CD. Unless - you think her vocals are extremely attractive? Gotta agree about the accent, though

senordingdong

On Tommy's not about genre to genre cover.
That's another reason why I thought KoRn were he only successful band at Metallica icon.

They have a really unique sound that translated well in their cover, and the song would have worked as it's own song.

Civilian_Target

Machine head do an absolutely stonking cover of creeping death - at least thats one guaranteed good track...

El_mariachi

MACHINE HEAD - "Battery" should be good
TRIVIUM - "Master Of Puppets" won't be too bad
MENDEED - "The Thing That Should Not Be" intersting!
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" gonna be runied
CHIMAIRA - "Disposable Heroes" Not gonna understand a ****ing lyric
FIGHTSTAR - "Leper Messiah" Gonna be ****
MASTODON - "Orion" this song sholud never be re done,
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - "Damage, Inc." EMO,EMO,goddamn ****ing EMO

this imo

Ph3n0m

Civilian_Target wrote:

Machine head do an absolutely stonking cover of creeping death - at least thats one guaranteed good track...

just a pity that the song wont feature on the album

Ok lets play the game - create your ultimate Master of Puppets tribute album - which bands would you like to see covering what songs - I have to think about this, so I will post my list later on

And remember one band - one song

Jaggy Snake

As someone who has time for all of the bands on that list apart from Mendeed (simply because I've never heard of them), I was delighted to see this happening. Not because I have any interest in listening to it, but because I knew it would make so many people recoil in disgust at the some of the artists doing covers, namely FFAF and Fightstar, hahah. I really like Fightstar by the way. Suck on that!

Ph3n0m

Jaggy Snake wrote:

As someone who has time for all of the bands on that list apart from Mendeed (simply because I've never heard of them), I was delighted to see this happening. Not because I have any interest in listening to it, but because I knew it would make so many people recoil in disgust at the some of the artists doing covers, namely FFAF and Fightstar, hahah. I really like Fightstar by the way. Suck on that!

yeah that will show the rest of us the error of our ways.....:rolleyes:

dimerocks

not master of puppets but the Sepultura cover of Fight Fire with Fire was awesome.....if only they had recorded more than 20 seconds of it!

Doctor J

Ph3n0m wrote:

Ok lets play the game - create your ultimate Master of Puppets tribute album - which bands would you like to see covering what songs - I have to think about this, so I will post my list later on

And remember one band - one song

Don't think the original can be topped but I'd love to hear this

Battery - Coroner
Master Of Puppets - Slayer
The Thing That Should Not Be - Crowbar
Welcome Home - Nevermore
Disposable Heroes - Lamb Of God
Leper Messiah - Melvins
Orion - Atheist
Damage Inc. - Cynic

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

Welcome Home - Nevermore
Orion - Atheist
Damage Inc. - Cynic

That would outright rock.

It wasn't me!

Eeenteresting idea...

Battery: Death(if only...)
Master of Puppets: Atheist
The Thing That Should Not Be: Napalm Death
Welcome Home(Sanitarium): Obituary
Disposable Heroes: Pantera
Leper Messiah: Carcass
Orion: Primus
Damage Inc.: Slayer

Could be interesting...

Doctor J

It wasn't me! wrote:

Welcome Home(Sanitarium): Obituary

just trying to imagine John Tardy growling "Welcome to where time stands still..."

It wasn't me!

[howl]"Noone leaves and noone will..."[\howl] I thought it'd be interesting to hear anyway.

Karl Hungus

It wasn't me! wrote:

Leper Messiah: Carcass

That would be extremely sweet.

Ok, I'll give it a go, and see what happens:

Battery - Strapping Young Lad
Master Of Puppets - Emperor
The Thing That Should Not Be - My Dying Bride
Welcome Home - Opeth
Disposable Heroes - Biomechanical
Leper Messiah - Morbid Angel
Orion - Rush
Damage Inc. - The Haunted

Hmm, that could be very, very interesting.

Motley Crue

Battery - Megadeth
Master Of Puppets - Diamond Head
The Thing That Should Not Be - Slayer
Welcome Home - Limp Bizkit (I happen to think the version they did was ok)
Disposable Heroes - Alice Cooper (to see what he could do with it)
Leper Messiah - Trivium
Orion - Faith No More (reformed of course)
Damage Inc. - Cannibal Corpse

It wasn't me!

Karl Hungus wrote:

That would be extremely sweet.

Ok, I'll give it a go, and see what happens:

Battery - Strapping Young Lad
Master Of Puppets - Emperor
The Thing That Should Not Be - My Dying Bride
Welcome Home - Opeth
Disposable Heroes - Biomechanical
Leper Messiah - Morbid Angel
Orion - Rush
Damage Inc. - The Haunted

Hmm, that could be very, very interesting.

I do try. Also, the Haunted could be very interesting, not to mention Morbid Angel.

Karl Hungus

It wasn't me! wrote:

I do try. Also, the Haunted could be very interesting, not to mention Morbid Angel.

Especially with Dave Vincent back. You can just hear it, can't you? "Grrr... BOOAUW TO LEPAARRRGGHHHH MESSIARRGGHHH!!!!" \m/ :mad: \m/

Whoa! Was that a bear!? :eek:

Ph3n0m

Battery - Prong
Master Of Puppets - Devildriver
The Thing That Should Not Be - Vader
Welcome Home - In Flames
Disposable Heroes - Rhapsody
Leper Messiah - Sentenced
Orion - Gabriel y Rodriguez
Damage Inc. - Death Angel