As I've said many times before, sometimes the gods speak to us more loudly than others. This morning, the local rock radio station favoured me with some Iron Maiden, and in that moment I knew that the gods were telling me where (and when!) to go for last week's Throwback Thursday post.
The Maiden song in question, and your Throwback Thursday song for last week, is the absolutely classic "Run to the Hills" from the 1982 masterpiece The Number of the Beast. From Steve Harris' galloping bass to Bruce Dickinson's as-usual stellar vocal performance, everything on this one is, as I said, classic. If somehow you know someone who doesn't know anything about Iron Maiden, this might just be the track to start them off on.
Showing posts with label Iron Maiden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iron Maiden. Show all posts
Monday, 19 October 2015
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Saturday: Frenzy - Lethal Protector
Do you like Venom? No, not the band, the Spider-Man character. If you don't, you fucking well should, because the idea of a living alien suit that bonds with the wearer and grants them super powers (as well as possibly nudging them towards evil) is pretty badass all around.
Maiden-esque classic/power metal act Frenzy apparently agree, because they've penned an ode to Eddie Brock and Friend for their upcoming debut EP. "Lethal Protector" is fast and full of energy and harmonized guitars, and really does sound like something from an old school metal act. For my taste, I might have preferred a sprawling tech-prog opus to the symbiote, but beggars can't be choosers, right?
Maiden-esque classic/power metal act Frenzy apparently agree, because they've penned an ode to Eddie Brock and Friend for their upcoming debut EP. "Lethal Protector" is fast and full of energy and harmonized guitars, and really does sound like something from an old school metal act. For my taste, I might have preferred a sprawling tech-prog opus to the symbiote, but beggars can't be choosers, right?
Thursday, 20 November 2014
The Protomen - The Trooper
Under the Covers of Darkness part 2 continues tonight with a Throwback Thursday of sorts. It's not so much an old cover as a cover of an old song, not to mention a classic and perennial favourite for covering.
The venerable coverable in question is none other than Iron Maiden's "The Trooper", originally recorded for the 1983 record Piece of Mind but this evening being performed for you by the American space-bots in The Protomen on their 2014 The Cover Up EP. While the band doesn't go too far out into orbit with their version of this Maiden masterpiece, they still manage to put enough of their own stank on it to make for a noticeable change in flavour: 80's guitar metal becomes 80's space rock with apparent ease. So grab your lasrifle and prepare to march in the robot wars with "The Trooper" as your soundtrack.
The venerable coverable in question is none other than Iron Maiden's "The Trooper", originally recorded for the 1983 record Piece of Mind but this evening being performed for you by the American space-bots in The Protomen on their 2014 The Cover Up EP. While the band doesn't go too far out into orbit with their version of this Maiden masterpiece, they still manage to put enough of their own stank on it to make for a noticeable change in flavour: 80's guitar metal becomes 80's space rock with apparent ease. So grab your lasrifle and prepare to march in the robot wars with "The Trooper" as your soundtrack.
Friday, 30 November 2012
Song of the Day: Coheed and Cambria - The Trooper
I suppose I could probably find enough decent Pink Floyd covers to just keep going that way for the rest of the week, but variety is the spice of life and all that, so let's switch it up just a tad, shall we? Today I've got another cover of a classic song by a similarly immortal band.
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