Band: Caliban
Album title: Coverfield EP
Label: Century Media Records
Distributor:  EMI
Release date: 16/04/2011
Release: CD

Caliban are a five-piece metalcore band from Germany and was found somewhere in 1997. After six months of playing together, the band recorded their first two songs for a demo (which were never released) and got their first record deal. Several years, line up changes and a total of 7 studio albums and 1 EP later, the band released another EP and is working on a new album. The band did have a few hits with songs like “Burden To Bleed” and “The Beloved And The Hatred”.
In the meanwhile while we all are waiting for their new album, the guys were so good to release a EP called “Coverfield”. A short record containing 4 covers (like the title indicated). The 4 songs are: My Girlfriend’s girlfriend (Type O Negative), Sonne (Rammstein), Blinded By Fear (At Te Gates) and Helter Skelter (The Beatles).
Caliban has used their own Metalcore style to create these covers, and because most of them as already classified as hard n’ heavy, it works out. You definitely hear it aren’t the originals, but they did a good job and can get away with it. The Beatles cover on the other hand feels/sounds like the ugly duck on this EP. That song just doesn’t sound good as a metalcore song. Besides that the band did a fairly good job .

72/100

Jeroen.