Band: Six Feet Under
Title: Graveyard Classics III
Label: Metal Blade Records
Distribution: Rough Trade Benelux.
Release date: 15/01/2010
Review: CD

Part 3 within Six Feet Under’s Graveyard Classics-series, standing for ten cover tracks this time, by bands that might have been of influence or inspiration to Chris Barnes and his brutal horde.

No comment about ‘the original is always better’, because it is of no importance in this case.
And Hell yeah, some covered bands, and the taken / chosen track, are rather evident, but a  few are surprising! Enjoy:

1. A Dangerous Meeting (Mercyful Fate) – low-tuned but brutal as f*ck;
2. Metal On Metal by Anvil, one of the highlights on this tribute album, because of its abyss-deep approach;
3. The Frayed Ends Of Sanity, Metallica… can’t please me (at all) because of ‘too evident, too easy’…;
4. At Dawn They Sleep, Slayer: equalling the thrashing brutality of the original;
5. Not Fragile, BTO: nice, refreshing, activating power;
6. On Fire by the sweet Van Halen-boys, maybe better than the original???;
7. Pounding Metal, Exciter: a classic, performed with pride and glory, a Metal’s milestone and therefore some kind of ‘must’ on one of SFU’s Graveyard-albums;
8. Destroyer, Twisted Sister, well, as ridiculous as the original, which is a good thing, believe me;
9. Psychotherapy, a classic by Punk veterans Ramones, in this case satisfying man’s rock’n’rolling roots with pleasure;
10. Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck, Prong: another thank you!

Registered at Audiohammer with Mark Lewis (e.g. Devildriver, Resurrection, Black Dahlia Murder, All That Remains, Chimaera) and Jason Suecof (think Trivium, God Forbid, Beneath The massacre, All That Remains, Neuraxis amongst many others).

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Ivan Tibos.