Ah 2020. The year of the Great Plague. It may have kept Leo Moracchioli in Norway and his touring band which features Toska guitarist Rabea Massaad away from the stage, but it didn’t stop the multi instrumentalist from hammering out those Friday Metalised covers from Frog Leap Studios in Norway. This look back at 2020
When it comes to Metalised covers of Trip Hop pioneers Portishead usually we’d look no further than Nu-Metal act Blank Theory and their cover of “Sour Times“. But returning to the seminal album “Dummy” by the Bristol residents is Leo Moracchioli who has chosen “Glory Box” for his weekly cover at Frog Leap Studios and
We couldn’t let Christmas 2020 disappear into the distance without putting head to head a pair of Christmas covers. It just wouldn’t be… well… Christmas. And lets face it; with three days to go to the big day, you’re either sitting on a huge stack of mince pies or rushing around like a headless chicken
While the score for the 1984 original version of Ghostbusters was written by Elmer Bernstein and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra at The Village in Los Angeles California, the title song is the work of Ray Parker Jr. An Actor, singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist in his own right, he’d inked a
If there was one song that was primed and ready for a Metal rework, it has to be “X Gon’ Give sit to Ya” by DMX and who better to do it than the maestro himself Leo Moracchioli. His Frog Leap Studios project may not have had the anticipated tour or festival season this year,
After paying tribute to the late Eddie Van Halen with a cover of his band Van Halen‘s hit “Jump” for his weekly Friday Metal cover, Leo Moracchioli from Frog Leap Studios Norway takes us behind the scenes of the accompanying video shoot in this little featurette, while cover itself features a guest solo from Ben
After the organisers of Wacken shared last summer’s full set in all of its technicolour glory, Leo Moracchioli is back once again with a brand new cover. This time out he’s picked the theme song from an animated classic written by Jeff Pescetto in “DuckTales” and it’s one that could well make the grade for the
Leo Moracchioli’s Metal covers project Frog Leap has been putting a smile on people’s faces since the he first started running with the concept and when the multi instrumentalist took the concept live, it’s blown up huge, Wacken in 2019 being a milestone moment. This set sees the live band tackle everyone from Pantera to
If you thought you’d heard the last of Cardi B for a while following our Vs Tuesday that put a Deathcore reinterpretation from Misstiq against a mash up of “Redneck” by Lamb of God, then you’d be wrong because her single “WAP” is the gift that keeps giving. Leo Moracchioli from Frog Leap Studios in
It’s been done before and no doubt it will be done again because it’s a classic. Who doesn’t remember the Gorilla drumming along to “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins? Nonpoint delivered an on point, modernization of the song a few years back and this week sees Leo Moracchioli put his Frog Leap Studios
