The longest running feature at Metal Noise is our weekly cover head to head, the gift that keeps giving and there are just so many up and coming bands putting their own spin on classic and not so classic cuts by established acts we all know and love and it’s a thing of beauty. If
Adorned by “Les Trésors de Satan” by Belgian Symbolist painter Jean Delville as its cover artwork, “Blessed Are The Sick” remains the career defining moment for Tampa Florida Death Metal legends Morbid Angel as the center piece of a holy trinity of albums considered rightfully as the most influential in the genre. Released 20 years so
Aside from being music to contemplate the meaning of life to, British Songstress Adele has been not only smashing the Pop Charts but having her music covered by artists on a regular basis, something of which she must be immensely proud. After all, how many others can claim Ice Nine Kills or Mushroomhead had taken
There are big singles and there is “Dig” by Mudvayne. Arguably the heaviest and most ferocious cut in the bands collection it took Nu-Metal to new heights of heavy when it landed like a right hook from Mike Tyson in the year 2000 and remains a track that the band are synonymous with. Like “Blind”
It’s time for some cheese to go with that fine wine we’ve all been dining on so to 1983 we run and the Grammy nominated Michael Sembello song “Maniac” that appeared on the soundtrack to the Flashdance. Ironically enough the song was written by Dennis Matkosky whose imagination was sparked by a news report on
A defining moment in Swedish Death Metal history came with the arrival of the debut full length album from Entombed, the first record to use the iconic Boss HM-2 pedal combined with the drop B tuning to create the buzzsaw guitar tone. “Left Hand Path” put the band on the map as a major force
Sat beside a firepit sharing a bottle of Wild Turkey, the question that we ask is would today’s thriving Avant-garde Metal scene at the moment with Azusa, Rivers Of Nihil and Imperial Triumphant all cutting their way through the undergrowth exist if it wasn’t for bands like Celtic Frost? The Zurich Switzerland formed act began
When it comes to classic Hardcore records, you don’t need to look much further than 1994’s “Scratch the Surface” from Queens New York Hardcore Punks Sick Of It All. Their third album and major label debut with East West Records, it was recorded at Normandy Sound in Warren, Rhode Island and spawned two absolute classic
Inspired by the classic low budget Horror movies of the 80’s, Yonkers New York Death Grind act Mortician have spent the last two decades telling tales of gore that would horrify and disgust the ordinary Joe. A revolving door of musicians they may have had over that time but the writing partnership and axis of
If you’re like us then you might casually be wondering one drunken night why it is that certain songs by certain big names get covered over and over again but others by those same bands which are just as good get left behind. For example, how many bands have covered “Sad But True” by Metallica
