DJ Snake and Lil Jon‘s 2013 club anthem “Turn Down For What” has been reinvented several times with Metal covers and dance remixes. The song has also appeared in the films 22 Jump Street, Vin Diesel’s Fast and Furious 7 and Horrible Bosses 2. This week Leo Moracchioli from Frog Leap Studios has taken the
In the Fearless Records offices there is someone who’s laughing hard about the phoneominon they accidentally created with their long running “Punk Goes Pop” series. It started out as just a thing and then evolved into Metal Goes Pop and now everyone who’s anyone has put out a cover in that style. One YouTube search
Part #4 of our Metal journey around The Black Map of UK cities takes us from Sunderland to the Midlands. The city of Birmingham has been home to genre crossing Tech-Metallers Oceans Ate Alaska. Progressive Metalcore is what some have described them as but we prefer the description afforded to them by their label, Fearless
Multi-instrumentalist and all round good guy Leo Moracchioli from Frog Leap Studio’s has released a cover of Katie Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl” featuring Phil X. His regular covers in true Punk Goes Pop style are often pretty decent, so well worth checking out if you’ve never witnessed him in action before.
In true Punk Goes Pop style, this weeks entry is a Beyonce Cover with Oceans Ate Alaska‘s version being Punk Goes Pop 6 from 2016, whereas Palisades version was released as a standalone single in 2014. OAA’s version is a brutally heavy Deathcore meets Tech-Metal cut and a stalwart of their live set, whereas Palisades cut is