Wicked Game covers

[ratherdashing]

As promised: http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/s...d.php?t=151478

[krankguitarist]

^nothing special for you, that is

Note, the YMMV. Your mileage may vary.

This is an exercise in redundancy. Really.

[Skarekrough]

Eh, the HIM cover is OK. but it's sorta like...OK, so lets take the basic chord structure, add a bunch of palm muting and heavy distortion. Boom! Heavy cover.

It's a little uninspired.

It's way more than just a little uninspired....

The words "ham-fisting" and "half-assed" spring immediately to mind.

Mainly they bring nothing to the table with it. There's no original spin on it, no real new twist, nothing other than the fact that it's some heavy band playing it. It's a self-glorified self-congratulating waste of time.

[KoreanGuitarMan]

But they're not numetal. That's the whole point. They took an emotive song and rocked it out in their own way, and it fits as though they wrote it. It's not a gimmick like the stupid Limp Bizkit/Alien Ant Farm etc. crapola.

I'm not going to argue whether they're nu-metal or not, as I don't really care...

They didn't really do anything to that song other than, as others have said, add distortion and palm mutes. It's a straight ahead cover otherwise. Not inventive.

I'd say Limp Bizkit's "Faith" cover has it beat in that regard. They at least changed the song up a bit, which HIM did not with their cover.

And I'd also say that it is very much a gimmick.

[ratherdashing]

Is anyone going to listen to my version?