Kerrang! issued a 21st anniversary tribute to Metallica's "Black Album" with its June 20 issue of the magazine.
The collection featured a variety of new artists, including Rise To Remain, whose singer is Austin Dickinson – the son of Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.
Rise To Remain are now sharing their version of "Enter Sandman" from the project.
The band's debut album, "City Of Vultures", was released last fall.
"The Black Album: Covered" tracklisting:
01. Rise To Remain - "Enter Sandman" 02. Your Demise - "Sad But True" 03. DevilDriver - "Holier Than Thou" 04. The Defiled - "Unforgiven" 05. Yashin - "Wherever I May Roam" 06. Hawk Eyes - "Don't Tread On Me" 07. Evile - "Through The Never" 08. Lostalone - "Nothing Else Matters" 09. Savage Messiah - "Of Wolf And Man" 10. Black Spiders - "The God That Failed" 11. Motionless In White - "My Friend Of Misery" 12. Devil Sold His Soul - "The Struggle Within"
As a cover, you can't get much better than this for closeness to the original. The rest of the album is pretty bad, except Lost Alone's cover of Nothing Else Matters, which I think is pretty solid.
Yashin's attempt is dreadful, but what else do you expect really?
And this should have been up like 6 weeks ago when it was released.
I hate with a passion when covers sound close to the original. Nothing shows how uncreative the band are more, and assures that I won't look up anything else by them.
OK cover, their other songs are complete rubbish though, extremely generic whiny screamo metalcore. With that said, no disrespect to Bruce.
The highlight of an otherwise very mediocre album except for a couple of tracks is definitely Savage Messiah's version of Of Wolf and Man, though, some major improvement on the solo there.
I was about to complain about it being jsut wayyyy to much like the original without any original parts, but then I heard the rest of the album, Im glad it sounds as close to Metallica as possible now... I think my memory is failing on me right now, but has anyone ever made a successful Metallica cover? No one better say Mustaine
I think Evile's cover was the best on there. By far.
Altered enough to be their own spin on the original, but not altered so far as to suggest you've never really appreciated the album like some of the other bands covers seemed to imply to me..
There was too much screamo- you could tell some bands had just pulled something straight out of their rectum to be included on the CD
I was about to complain about it being jsut wayyyy to much like the original without any original parts, but then I heard the rest of the album, Im glad it sounds as close to Metallica as possible now... I think my memory is failing on me right now, but has anyone ever made a successful Metallica cover? No one better say Mustaine
I was about to complain about it being jsut wayyyy to much like the original without any original parts, but then I heard the rest of the album, Im glad it sounds as close to Metallica as possible now... I think my memory is failing on me right now, but has anyone ever made a successful Metallica cover? No one better say Mustaine
Here's some of the ones I thought were cool:
Testament - Holier Than Thou
Mastodon & Dream Theater - Orion
Destruction & Motorhead - Whiplash
Vader - Fight Fire With Fire
Trivium - Master of Puppets
Machine Head - Battery
Anthrax - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Periphery - One (I'm not too huge on the vocals, but the instruments sound amazing)
Motionless in White - My Friend of Misery isn't that bad actually, and I hate that band.
i think the black album still sounds fresh today and for something from 91 to sound sonically ahead of its time and be better than any music today is mighty impressive i'd say.
