Best Covers Albums

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

Cool reviews, Lari.  I agree on PowerWolf's take on the marketing.

+1 Good read, Lari. I have to track down those Powergod discs. I read of them on NLTM a few years back and had forgotten about them.

If my band ever does a cover album, this will be the track listing:

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Yes – Heart of the Sunrise
Watchtower – Meltdown
Fates Warning – Without a Trace
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Artillery – 7:00 from Tashkent / Khomaniac
Annihilator – Imperiled Eyes
Cyclone Temple – Words are just Words
Metal Church – Line of Death
Cynic – Uroboric Forms
Toxik – World Circus
Exodus – 30 Seconds / Seeds of Hate
Tourniquet – Tears of Korah

Temple of Blood wrote:

If my band ever do a cover album, this will be the track listing:

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Yes – Heart of the Sunrise
Watchtower – Meltdown
Fates Warning – Without a Trace
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Artillery – 7:00 from Tashkent / Khomaniac
Annihilator – Imperiled Eyes
Cyclone Temple – Words are just Words
Metal Church – Line of Death
Cynic – Uroboric Forms
Toxik – World Circus
Exodus – 30 Seconds / Seeds of Hate
Tourniquet – Tears of Korah

That looks like it would be quite a track list. Make it happen.

Temple of Blood wrote:

If my band ever does a cover album, this will be the track listing:

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Yes – Heart of the Sunrise
Watchtower – Meltdown
Fates Warning – Without a Trace Now that's going deep in the vault for a cover.
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Artillery – 7:00 from Tashkent / Khomaniac
Annihilator – Imperiled Eyes
Cyclone Temple – Words are just Words
Metal Church – Line of Death Same here.
Cynic – Uroboric Forms
Toxik – World Circus
Exodus – 30 Seconds / Seeds of Hate
Tourniquet – Tears of Korah

That's what a cover album should be- faves by the artist that might introduce the listener to a new band they will love. One f the reasons the HammerFall cover album is a fave is that it introduced me to both Pretty Maids and Chastain.

Lari wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

If my band ever do a cover album, this will be the track listing:

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Yes – Heart of the Sunrise
Watchtower – Meltdown
Fates Warning – Without a Trace
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Artillery – 7:00 from Tashkent / Khomaniac
Annihilator – Imperiled Eyes
Cyclone Temple – Words are just Words
Metal Church – Line of Death
Cynic – Uroboric Forms
Toxik – World Circus
Exodus – 30 Seconds / Seeds of Hate
Tourniquet – Tears of Korah

That looks like it would be quite a track list. Make it happen.

Thanks! First things first.

the sentinel wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

If my band ever does a cover album, this will be the track listing:

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Yes – Heart of the Sunrise
Watchtower – Meltdown
Fates Warning – Without a Trace      Now that's going deep in the vault for a cover.
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Artillery – 7:00 from Tashkent / Khomaniac
Annihilator – Imperiled Eyes
Cyclone Temple – Words are just Words
Metal Church – Line of Death    Same here.
Cynic – Uroboric Forms
Toxik – World Circus
Exodus – 30 Seconds / Seeds of Hate
Tourniquet – Tears of Korah

That's what a cover album should be- faves by the artist that might introduce the listener to a new band they will love. One f the reasons the HammerFall cover album is a fave is that it introduced me to both Pretty Maids and Chastain.

Thanks man.

I wanted to include formative influences on me as well as great artists that I think we could do a good job with that need more recognition.

BTW, I have already worked on our reimagining of Painkiller and Heart of a Sunrise and have preliminary demos. They are reinterpretations, making them more "Temple of Blood" style. "Painkiller" is more similar but thrashier. "Heart of the Sunrise" is of course VERY different and more of a speed metal tune a la Realm.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Lari wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

If my band ever do a cover album, this will be the track listing:

Judas Priest – Painkiller
Yes – Heart of the Sunrise
Watchtower – Meltdown
Fates Warning – Without a Trace
Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal
Artillery – 7:00 from Tashkent / Khomaniac
Annihilator – Imperiled Eyes
Cyclone Temple – Words are just Words
Metal Church – Line of Death
Cynic – Uroboric Forms
Toxik – World Circus
Exodus – 30 Seconds / Seeds of Hate
Tourniquet – Tears of Korah

That looks like it would be quite a track list. Make it happen.

Thanks!  First things first.  

You'll get there, brother.

No love for Stryper's The Covering?

No one has mentioned the Hollywood Vampires project. I really enjoyed that album a lot. Of course, being an Alice Cooper fan helps!

I also agree with Lari's comments about the Iced Earth tribute album. It could have been so much better, even with the tracks they chose. I was most disappointed in the Blue Oyster Cult tune, Burnin' For You. That could have been really cool with Iced Earth's classic sound and instead, they chose to reproduce the original arrangement.