Today I received the following message within an email:
Hi! I see you like metal, I think it will be interesting for you)))
So I gave it (the link) a chance. I was stunned by the powerful sound, and the performance of the artist. The song was a cover of Emigrate's Resolution, and the name of the artist is Roman Varashev.
Below are both the original and its cover. Enjoy! I really did!
I've received the other day an email related to a certain situation in my country. This situation is presented as new each time it comes into discussion. It is always about changes, but those kind of changes seems to be perpetual, and every time they start from the very same spot they've previously started...
Speaking of changes, here are two versions of Black Sabbath's song: the one played by the band, and another one performed by Ozzy Osbourne and his daughter Kelly Osbourne. You might want to listen to them on a rainy day...
Considering that Ozzy is the main voice in both versions, which is your favorite one?
There were LPs, then cassettes and video tapes. A major change in sound quality was brought to us by compact discs (Philipsand SONY), the famous CDs!
The very first song that I was listening to, played on a CD player, and using headphones, was Deep Purple's Child in Time. It was, and will be an everlasting experience!
Do you remember your similar experience?
Many of my posts on this rock blog bring together different performances of the same song, and this is no different. You'll find, below the original, Yngwie Malmsteen's cover with a homonym name in a characteristic (guitar) interpretation. Enjoy!
In order to experience at home a concert alike feeling, one may need some speakers. Well, not any speakers! Some Avantgarde speakers, where purity meets performance!
My mind is blown by this unique horn design, and as soon as my thinking was restored, I was willing to share this information with you!
Read more about Avantgarde Acoustic ™ Hornloudspeaker GMBH. You'll be surely amazed!
Years ago, a colleague of mine used to listen to Mike Oldfield.
Nowadays, listening to Blind Guardian, I came across one of Oldfield's songs, To France, played by this German power/heavy metal band.
Mike Oldfield's version was interpreted by Maggie Reilly, and Blind Guardian's one by Hansi Kürsch (Demons & Wizards).
Usually the original is far better than the remake, only this case is some sort of a new interpretation, so I would say that both versions worth attention!
At first, Dropkick Murphys reminded me about Skyclad, then, some of their songs, about The Clash. Being from Quincy, MA, so Americans, results quite a mix: American Celtic punk!
We've received that sad news about Tarja's severe case of laryngitis in front of Sala Palatului, Bucharest, when we expected to enter to the show. Now we have a video confirmation from Mike Terrana. Fortunately this illness is temporary! I am glad that the show was postponed and not cancelled!
No matter how powerful musicians' messages are, the politicians' ones seem to resonate better with the masses. Ronnie James Dio and Ozzy Osbourne duet along with Black Sabbath are performing War Pigs with such kind of message.
Pink Floyd (without Roger Waters) released "The Division Bell" back in 1994. The album is David Gilmour's version of some sort of battle between Gilmour and Waters, a battle of lyrics, a battle of musical notes and guitar tabs. It is a new version of Us and Them: Me and You, where "me" is Gilmour and "you" is Waters...
High Hopes is one of the tracks of this album, a track played in their own style by Nightwish some 11 years after. Both interpretations are shown below.
Chose the one you like, or play both and compare them. The choice is all yours!
The other day I was told by a mate that he doesn't listen to a certain kind of (foreign) music because he doesn't understand the lyrics. I think it was his excuse for not liking hard rock or heavy metal. I did not wanted, and I did not ask for, an apologize simply because I do not care what music my mates love or hate (as long as it is quality music), and they don't have to listen to the same kind of music I am listening to.
Anyway, even so, if one wants to understand the lyrics prior to feel the sounds of music, well then, he/she needs poetry, not music. Music is a particular feeling, no matter if supported by lyrics or not. Great lyrics behind the music gives even more power to the music, but the sound is the one which creates the music, not the lyrics!
Listening to Iron Maiden's homonymous album (1980), the sounds of Strange World captured my attention. This song sounds very psychedelic to me. There is another song with a very similar approach on this album: Remember Tomorrow.
More than lyrics, when a song is linked to a good movie, the inner feeling is complete. Searching for an appropriate video for Strange World, I have found one with scenes from Ladyhawke.
Recently I was listening to a Skyclad playlist on YouTube.com, and Jumping My Shadow seems to catch my attention. Although the idea of this song is not an original one, it starts with a nice Kahlil Gibran quote which I am posting right now:
And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Why am I telling you that this is not an original idea? Because it reminds me of Cinderella's Don't Know What You Got ('Till It's Gone).
Searching the web for Skyclad I've found this meaning on Encyclopaedia Metallum: Skyclad is a pagan term for ritual nudity, meaning literally that the practitioners are clad only by the sky, due to their highly nature-oriented beliefs.
Below are the above two great love songs, and I hope you'll appreciate to their fair value!
On January 8, 2013, quite without fanfare and out of the blue, David Bowie did something nobody really expected. He released a new single entitled 'Where Are We Now' and announced the release of a new album in March. The album, 'The Next Day' is Bowie's 30th studio album and his first new album in 10 years.
Tonight another "battle", a battle called: "Dreamer Deceiver".
He said in the cosmos is a single sonic sound That is vibrating constantly
By chance, a few years ago, I've came over Dreamer Deceiver, a Judas Priest's cover (the third song from the album Sad Wings of Destiny) performed by Skyclad. The original sound of Skyclad, turned the original song into a much more powerful one. It is one of that few situations in which the cover is (way much) better than the original. Judas Priest's (and even metal ballads) fans might argue with my point of view. I am not questioning the undoubted value of Judas Priest, I am only put into the balance two version of the same song!
