I mean, Metallica and Skynyrd are as far away from each other as music could possibly get, and that's a fact. Nobody could expect the band to cover Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone", a southern rock ballad. There are also cover songs that are just downright baffling. If anybody likes this medley better than the originals, fine. James and King Diamond have two completely different voices, the complete polar opposites of each other. When James Hetfield does it, it just isn't as effective, at least not in my opinion. In my opinion, though, his voice is part of the charm of the Mercyful Fate songs covered here. His high falsetto voice just doesn't sit well with everyone. Yeah, I know, there are a lot of people out there that don't like King Diamond's vocals, and that's fine, I can understand. Now I'm just speaking my own opinion on this, but I kind of feel that it isn't the same without King Diamond as a lead vocalist. The burping and Lars talking at the very end of it doesn't help so much either, but I digress. In the cover version, Kirk just fools around with his whammy bar and produces typical whammy bar sound effects. After the solo in the original, we hear a guitar whammy bar producing a low, eerie, air-raid siren-like sound effect that punctuated the song's subject matter. It's actually a pretty decent cover, all things considered, as it is a little faster-paced, and of course, a little heavier, but I still consider the original to be better. You don't expect studio efforts to be bogged down like that, I mean, the guitars on the cover of "Am I Evil" aren't tuned down, and they're still heavy.Īnd now let's talk about "Blitzkrieg", a song that not so much of us are familiar with. If it was a live version, I wouldn't mind so much, since bands tend to tune their songs down a half step when playing live, but this is a studio effort. Metallica just decided to not only make the guitars heavier, but also put their version of the song down a half-step. Okay, I admit, it's kind of a hokey song, but it's kind of what you'd expect to hear in a NWOBHM band like Diamond Head. What really gets me, though is their rendition of "It's Electric". Yes, there's the song "Am I Evil", which we all know so much about, so I'm not going to elaborate on that so much, other than the fact that the guitars are heavier than in the original, typical of Metallica. What we get here isn't so much an album which contains songs of praise to any of those bands covered as they are giving them a big middle finger, and you would have to listen to hear for yourself.Įverybody knows of Metallica's love of Diamond Head. Punk rock, NWOBHM, and even classic rock, so when the band decided to give a shout out to all three of those musical genres, they released "Garage Inc.", an album consisting mainly of covers of the bands that inspired them. Tuesday's Gone (feat. Pepper Keenan, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney,"Big" Jim Martin, John Popper, Gary Rossington, & Les Claypool)ĭisc 2, Tracks 1-5 from The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited (Elektra 60757-1, 1987)ĭisc 2, Tracks 6-7 from "Creeping Death" single (Music for Nations 12 KUT 112 (U.K.), 1984)ĭisc 2, Track 8 from "Eye of the Beholder" 7" single (Elektra 7-69357, 1988)ĭisc 2, Track 9 from "One" 7" single (Elektra 7-69329, 1988)ĭisc 2, Track 10 from "Enter Sandman" 7" single (Vertigo 868 732-7 (U.K.), 1991)ĭisc 2, Track 11 from "The Unforgiven" 12" single (Vertigo 866 137-1 (U.K.), 1991)ĭisc 2, Track 12 from "The Unforgiven" 7" single (Vertigo 866 136-7 (U.K.), 1991)ĭisc 2, Tracks 13-14 from "Hero of the Day" single #1 (Vertigo METCD 13 (U.K.), 1995)ĭisc 2, Tracks 15-16 from "Hero of the Day" single #2 (Vertigo METCX 13 (U.K.There has been quite a lot that has influenced Metallica.Mercyful Fate Medley: Satan's Fall/Curse of the Pharaohs/A Corpse Without Soul/Into the Coven/Evil.Amazon has a very tentative-looking order page here more info will be posted as it's available. The new vinyl set, to be released March 1, will be available in either three or six-LP forms, all on 45 RPM 180-gram vinyl. The other disc was another collection of covers that the band had previously released on singles and EPs (notably the then-out-of-print 1987 EP The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited). One disc was comprised of newly recorded covers of favorites from Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy to Bob Seger and Lynyrd Skynyrd. was a double-disc set released in 1998 that showcased the multiple rock influences of the L.A.-based metal gods. Metallica are reissuing their Garage Inc.
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