BLACK xmaSABBATH CoveReee - ALBUM FINALLY UPLOADED!

[altars of radness]

I like it a lot! your beloved noise rock is one of my less favorite genres, but I dig how you unified a song that I always viewed as two disparate halves

Thanks, man.

When I first read that I saw "I dig how you ruined a song..." Which would have been cool, too.

[Necrometer]

I mean... most of us are going into this with full knowledge that we'll be ruining a song

[badgevvrecker]

so apparently on freesound.or they refer to this type of challenge as a dare, so as not to make it a competition. i'm won't lie, i rather like that.

altars Blackened Sabbath gets a + and

[Iron Goldie]

Alright, then:

http://soundcloud.com/stereotommy/altar ... black-sabb

This is pretty good. I agree with Ross, noise rock ranks among one of my lesser liked genres, so the beginning kind of turned me off, but I'm glad I listened to it all the way. It's a good cover, and it gets really good after the two minute point to me.

And since you guys were posting covers you liked on the last page, I'll just say that I've always been partial to Monster Magnets psychedelic mindfuck of an Into The Void cover:

[altars of radness]

I agree with Ross, noise rock ranks among one of my lesser liked genres, so the beginning kind of turned me off

Yeah, I was going to cut off the intro because it's so annoying, but that ended up being the reason why I kept it. I think it gives the actual beginning of the song more impact, too.

Thanks for the listens.

[badgevvrecker]

i get so angry with that cover of into the void because it wholly dispenses with my favorite riff.

[Introvert]

i get so angry with that cover of into the void because it wholly dispenses with my favorite riff.

My favorite cover of that song is the Soundgarden one.

And good stuff Altars!

[badgevvrecker]

it's gonna be really hard to top that -halo- cover of black sabbath

[Necrometer]

What? He did!

[Necrometer]

What? He did!

...and the only reason I clicked that vid is because of the fucking weird lefty-hating POV technique he used to film...

[Necrometer]

The right handers just don't understand us, Ross.

[Necrometer]

I was watching this yesterday:



That guitar sound bothers me...

yeah... guitar tone's come a long way on its quest to sucking in the intervening decades

Ozzy's weird crouch dance at 0:20? WTF?

[BUNGVOX]

I love how Iommi still thinks Ozzy is a total dumbass. Those tales of him beating the shit out of Ozzy in the old days are hilarious...

Edit...oh, and...for the umpteenth time:



Godflesh on the speakers before they start...

they opened with this when i saw them....not sure if it was a few days before or after this vid was filmed.

whatever happened to dave trissid? he wasn't the bassist for very long but he was damned solid. was kinda bummed that joe preston wasn't with em anymore but still.

[\m/Johnny\m/]

[Necrometer]

indeed!

in the pantheon of Sabbath covers (this was a cottage industry during the 90s...) almost never are these riffs "smartened up" - attempts aren't even made

why? maybe it would be heretical to come along after decades of progress in the genre they accidentally spawned, and just stomp the shit out of their sandcastles...



... anyway, going to have to finish mine by the end of this weekend due to holiday shit - it's not going to be easy but it should be doable... drums and riffs are basically locked, gotta find the courage to attempt composition of this solo and then... oh jesus the vocals

[Necrometer]

hahaha! that'd be fine if I were going for a general BS cover... like AoR and like my 'zig covers, I have a laser focus on this one, and some big shoes to fill

[triple clutcher v2.5b]

indeed!

in the pantheon of Sabbath covers (this was a cottage industry during the 90s...) almost never are these riffs "smartened up" - attempts aren't even made

why? maybe it would be heretical to come along after decades of progress in the genre they accidentally spawned, and just stomp the shit out of their sandcastles...

what can you do with a riff like "Iron Man" that'll make it less retarded before you've totally rewritten it? And will your new, less-retarded riff be as begrudgingly charming? I think it's an interesting test of ability to see what a musician can do with an older Sabbath tune.

If you're not creative enough, it's gonna suck.


And if you get too creative, it's still gonna suck.

[Necrometer]

Do you really think that Ultraviolence cover (which I incidentally love) is a good example of "getting too creative" - I mean it's only the surface shit that's different - the structure and melodic composition are basically identical, right?

I fucking hate Iron Man, but since you brought it up here's a changed-it-an-adequate-amount-while-still-staying-faithful (notes progress the same but with different rhythm IIRC) that may or may not suck:

I think it's an interesting test of ability to see what a musician can do with an older Sabbath tune.

Totally agreed. But even really solid composers have seemed to play it extremely safe on these covers (Sleep's Snowblind, Megadeth's covers, I know there are more...). If anything, when people do change the core composition, I've found it to be a deconstruction of the song to something even stupider! (Fudge Tunnel!?!?!)

[going on memory w/o fresh listens on all of this, apologies for any ignorant or misguided statements]

[triple clutcher v2.5b]

maybe "changed too much" was an oversimplification? OLD did a great synth-heavy cover of "Who Are You?", and even the cover of "Supernaut" that Al Jourgensen did on "Nativity In Black" is pretty good. But the Ultraviolence cover sounds poorly thought-out to me ... like dude wanted to do an electronic Sabbath cover, "Paranoid" is a simple tune, and no real thought went into trying to make the two cohere beyond a mostly superficial change in the arrangement (nb: my interpretation of how it came about is probably wrong).

I like the Cardigans' cover because it's a good song on its own, but you can still tell that it's "Iron Man". It feels like actual thought went into making it enjoyable beyond the initial novelty value. And Sleep's cover of "Snowblind" is great just because it goes gleefully barreling past "slavish ripoff" and crashes headfirst into "parallel universe Sabbath bootleg" territory.

[Necrometer]

fucking LOVE that Sleep cover

listening to that Cardigans cover for the first time in a while... it's sorta OK, but I'm generally blinded a bit with rage over the fact that one of the shittiest BS songs is "the" heavy metal anthem known to the rest of the world

[Necrometer]

irritate them back!

where the fuck is thor's on-the-brink-of-done-for-a-month wonder project?

drums & guitars (sans solo) are all recorded, just gotta do bass (takes 5 seconds), vocals, and lead this weekend... should be doable

[Necrometer]

fuck yes... we need to put some fires under asses around here

[badgevvrecker]

my friends studio where i do the vocals (infinitely better equipment than my baling-wire and duct-tape setup) is in chuck schaffs old place right down the road. unfortunately i work evenings and the dude who runs it works mornings. if i'm off before early AM he'll let me in and i can lock up when i leave. unfortunately the last time that was convenient and feasible, he forgot that his badass biker mom was coming into town for a visit and couldn't.

[glovefullavaseline]

i was going to spend more time on this but i feel the need to share it now.

http://soundcloud.com/xfunkybutt69x/sym ... e-universe

happy holidays!

[badgevvrecker]

just discovered something while mixing that made the drums really feel a lot more 3d and less flat.