Metallica Covers Deep Purple For Tribute Album

Metallica are one of the acts featured on the forthcoming Deep Purple project, "Re-Machined: A Tribute To Machine Head.

Due September 25, the compilation CD presents re-interpretations of Deep Purple’s landmark 1972 album with songs recorded by Iron Maiden, Chickenfoot, Black Label Society and more.

Metallica covers "When A Blind Man Cries," a song recorded during the 1971 sessions. The tune did not appear on the album’s original release, but was issued as the B-side to the single, "Never Before". "Blind Man" was eventually included on the 25th Anniversary 2CD edition of "Machine Head".

Deep Purple’s most successful record, "Machine Head" reached number 1 in the UK and stayed in the top 40 for 20 weeks; it reached number 7 in the United States, remaining on the Billboard 200 for 118 weeks.

"Re-Machined: A Tribute To Machine Head"

01. "Smoke On The Water" – Carlos Santana / Jacoby Shaddix
02. "Highway Star" – Chickenfoot
03. "Maybe I'm A Leo" – Glenn Hughes / Chad Smith
04. "Pictures of Home" – Black Label Society
05. "Never Before" – Kings of Chaos
06. "Smoke On The Water" – The Flaming Lips
07. "Lazy" – Jimmy Barnes with Joe Bonamassa
08. "Space Truckin'" – Iron Maiden
09. "When A Blind Man Cries" – Metallica

Exclusive to this special edition:

10. "Highway Star" – Steve Vai, Glenn Hughes, Chad Smith, Lauchlan Doley

Thanks to Hennemusic for the report.

Comments

[Krieger91]

A Deep Purple tribute album is awesome.

But when I read this, I expected Metallica to have done ANY song except for "When A Blind Man Cries". Amazing song, yet I'm not sure about them doing it.

[MyS3lF]

i find metallica's version amazing to say the least

[Krieger91]

Actually now that I've heard it it is good.

[Johnny_Ibanez]

My reaction:

Metallica to cover Deep Purple: NOICE!

Metallica to contribute to album "A Tribute To Machine Head" : WAIT, WHAT?

"Machine Head" is an album by Deep Purple: AAAAAH.

God, I'm uncouth.

[nathanwaffles]

Thought the same thing. Sorry yall, just not a Deep Purple fan...

[Sheep Shagger]

Unlike a lot of tribute albums, this one interests me a lot. I'm a big fan of several of the artists involved. The preview from the trailer sounded great. Kevin Shirley is easily one of the best modern day producers around.

[trickster47321]

Smoke on the Water is being done twice?

[Agent 00Awesome]

Of course.

[xonty]

And Highway Star

[6-String_Madman]

why not? It's their most popular song... well, at least on most sides of the globe.

[Rimfrost]

I think this is Metallicas version:

Not bad, hetfield hasn´t sounded this good on a record since the 90s. Hope the production inspires them when recording the new album.

[Glass Prisoner]

Great version. James' voice sounds very good, which is really the most important part of this song. Even Lars' snare "fills" don't distract too much!
Looking forward to hearing Maiden's cover too.

[Maiden95]

those were my thoughts exactly. But I think Maiden is going to have the best cover on the album.

[Rimfrost]

Check for yourself:

Per sonally i prefer Metallicas cover.

[Maiden95]

Yeah, you are right. Metallica has the better cover. I like Maiden's, it's certainly not as bad as some say but I still think Metallica's is better

[jonnern92]

Metallica's version!

[dalejandro88]

metallica's version is already online, you should post in the article

[tanooj2]

Wow I'm looking forward to this, there are some really big names participating. But why is Smoke on the Water being covered twice?

[xonty]

Jon Lord would be proud!

[Thrash_Attack]

Iron Maiden covering Space Truckin'? My life is complete.

[gnurph]

Flaming Lips to cover Smoke on the Water? That should be... different... to say the least.

[slaveskinJACKET]

To be fair, that's probably the most you could say about it, too.

[MR.LZZYHALE]

when i read the title i thought that thy were going to do something like garage inc. 2

[ISuckAGuitar]

No god is wrathful enough to suffer as through James ruining another Misfits song.

[Braykah]

Their version of WaBMC was actually pretty good, James did a great job singing it even though Wahmett's solo towards the end ruined it a bit.

Anyway, I'm really anticipating Iron Maiden's cover of Space Truckin', wish they would have done Highway Star or Pictures of Home instead, though.

[nnb]

Last week thay had the same excat headline but with Iron Maiden.

@Braykah if the one on youtube is the version their using for this this album its not very good in my opinion, Maiden is capable of much more.

[ISuckAGuitar]

Two versions of "Smoke on the Water"? Seriously, that should be banned. I'm pretty sure Santana's version was already released on his covers album a few years ago too. Guess no one was ballsy enough to do a cover of "Child in Time".

[Krieger91]

For some weird reason I just had an audio-imae of Muse covering it. Not that it would be necessarily good.I just had the image.

[MrDawson]

or maybe Child In Time appears on "In Rock" and not "Machine Head"

[Battman1993]

why why why why is ****ing Jacoby Shaddix singing Smoke on The Water? Couldn't Santana have gotten anybody else?

[metallimaiden90]

Dude , f*** Santana. He lost all integrity when he played live with Justin Bieber.

[Crazyhawk]

I have been a Deep Purple fan since forever. As was my weird habit when I bought single records, in those days, I always played the B side first. Lots of gems buried there. 'When a Blind Man Cries'was one such song and has remained my favorite Purple song. What are the odds that my favorite band would end up playing my favorite Deep Purple song? I love it. I can't stop listening to it. Can't wait until the album is in my hands. It's gonna be a long month.

[killektrika]

I really really wanted Metallica to do Burn!!!
If I ever meet them, I'm gonna as them to do it anyways.