HOLY SHIT AN IRON MAIDEN THREAD!

[salty]

Anyone heard the tracks from the Kerrang Maiden Heaven tribute CD?

Some...different...covers on there.

Dream Theater did To Tame A Land which is pretty mighty haha.

 

[Shannow]

Fella, you're on the wrong board to be talking 'Maiden

 

[Shadow298]

who is this band you call Iron Maiden?

isn't this a limp bizkit tribute forum?

 

[dreamwatch]

You need to write 'Off Topic' in your thread titles dude.

I didn't think intelligent grown ups read Kerrang anymore?

 

[salty]

Fucked if I read it haha

 

[Southy]

is it out there to download?....have you a link, I have heard some bits n pieces, but not DT's cover, of a mighty Maiden song



got a link yet??

 

[Spiff]

Why read Kerrang! when you can read Metal Hammer?

Oh, wait.

 

[salty]

Why read Metal Hammer when you can read Hot Metal!?

Oh, wait.

 

[Spiff]

Well, at least Metal Hammer is still around.

Classic Rock is my music mag of choice these days, and that does me just fine.

 

[mattt]

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

 

[Goreripper]

That's just fucked.

 

[Incarnate]

Oh man what a poor bunch of bands. Dream Theater's should be good, Metallica's potentially good but who knows what those douches are up to these days.

 

[Mark]

Bought it today, just for the CD (natch) - haven't listened to it yet tho.

 

[Mark]

Ok, listening now. Fucking hell.

I'm pretty sure the Metallica cover is from the Newsted days?

Dream Theater's is OK, the rest so far is utter arse.

 

[dreamwatch]

Well, at least Metal Hammer is still around.

Classic Rock is my music mag of choice these days, and that does me just fine.

Yeah, same here. Love Classic Rock.

Ok, have listened to the ahem 'highlights' of this disc. Holy fucking shit sauce, what a travesty. Was about 2 minutes into Caught Somewhere In Time before I realised what it was supposed to be. The NSync version of Hallowed Be Thy Name was particularly nasty. So basically as well as a shit mag you get a shit disc too. I expect nothing less from Kerrang. I can always use something to line the cats litter box I suppose.

 

[phlogiston]

I've aquired it by alternative means, and I have the following to say:

Bah, you're all just close minded music snob. Most of them are just note for note covers with a different vocal style, and with the possible exception of two of them they're interesting interpretations. I reckon Maiden song are up with AC/DC songs. They're hard to fuck up no matter what you do with them.

The two notable exceptions are Run To The Hills (and it's an enormous achievement to be able to fuck *that* one up), and Brave New World.

 

[Incarnate]

Metallica's and Dream Theater's are ok, Lars Ulrich has shithouse drum fills which kills that one for me, but Dream Theaters while average for most of the song has sweet ass solos.

 

[salty]

I dig most of them actually. At first the really "different" ones made me go "grrr" but after I kinda listened to them in the context of being a different take on the song I quite enjoy them.

Coheed do The Trooper live and it sounds 10000x better live than it does on the CD...which is quite horrible haha.

I really dig the pre-bruce songs.

 

[mattt]

Coheed and Cambria rock

 

[Mean Machine]

There are some fucking horrible ones on there (Avenged Sevenfold, Glamour of the Kill, Coheed and Cambria) but there are some great tracks on there too.

I'm not a Dream Theater fan but I think they did a pretty damn good job of To Tame A Land, which isn't exactly the best song in the first place. Sigh's cover of Run To The Hill is fantastic, and Metallica's track isn't half bad either.

But the standout to me is EASILY Ghostlines' cover of Brave New World. It's a very interesting take on the song and is bloody good, one of the best Maiden cover's I've heard. I much prefer when bands try something different with cover tracks like this, rather than just clones of the original with different vocals.