Fade to Bluegrass Vol. 2: Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica

Iron Horse (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 31, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cmh Records
• ASIN: B000CEV47M
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,060 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From the Artist

You can’t spell "metal" without Metallica. For over twenty years, they’ve set the platinum standard for high-velocity ferocity, with their chainsaw guitars, machine gun drumming, and in-your-face tales of society’s outcasts. Brilliantly assured musicians, Metallica has forced critics and fans to accept and finally to love their brand of hard-thrash rock. Their songs have become classics, driven by riffs that stick to the insides of our skulls, long after we’ve pressed the eject button in a spasm of metal-ized satisfaction.

Product Description

From out of the metal storm rides Iron Horse, the Alabama bluegrass band with the passion to match Metallica song for song. Fade to Bluegrass Volume II is a hand-picked collection of Metallica hits, restrung and refined into beautiful acoustic jams. Reeling fiddles, blazing banjos and the sweetest harmonies prove that bluegrass and metal have more in common than meets the ear -- they’re both on a mission to connect fans to the music that moves them.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Mighty Fine Pickin' 'n A-Singin'!, October 31, 2006

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Gerald Bocook "The GREAT Moto" (Hattiesburg, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fade to Bluegrass Vol. 2: Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica (Audio CD)

"Fade to Bluegrass Volume II: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica" is, by any account, a very well-done experiment into the musical reassignment craze going around these days. Taking the hard, energetic, fast metal of one of the most well-known musical acts ever, and translating them to a slower, pluckier form of music known as Bluegrass.

Where "Fade to Bluegrass Volume II" succeeds is in breathing some new life into some slightly-aged tracks from 10+ years ago in some cases, as well as giving a new face to more recent tracks that might've been passed over because of the album they were on. But, where "Fade to Bluegrass Volume II" fails is in its grace; the original "Fade to Bluegrass" album is an all-time favorite of mine, and the tracks on it were not only well-done, but changed to bring familiarity and freshness to them, whereas a few of the tracks on Volume II feel... alien. A good example being the track "To Live is to Die". Originally a sweeping, epic, sorrow-filled song in rememberance of fallen bassist Cliff Burton, the version found on this Bluegrass translation is a short, under-four-minute li'l ditty with the once-spoken verse now being sung the whole way through. And while this does what the album sets out to do - takes these songs and give a new spin on them - it ends up hurting more than helping, as the original and translated versions bear little semblance to each other, and therefore hurting the overall feel of the product.

Most of this album is very, very good. But, there's just something lacking in this Volume that was present in the first. It's very difficult to put it in words, it's something aural, perhaps the feel that perhaps a couple of these tracks were rushed through without putting enough consideration into how to turn them from pounding metal to plucking bluegrass, and leaving the end result with a bit more to be desired.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent combination of the two genres, October 30, 2006

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S. Hirt "Trimalchio" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fade to Bluegrass Vol. 2: Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica (Audio CD)

If you like either Bluegrass or Metallica, you will love this cd. It is just as good, if not better than the first volume. All the songs are good, but my favorite has to be the rendition of "Welcome Home (Sanitarium).

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, November 15, 2011

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Max Boyd - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fade to Bluegrass Vol. 2: Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica (Audio CD)

Even the burnt out songs you hear on the radio that Metallica does have been revitalized in this tribute. Pretty much every song on here is like a bad ass reworking of the original. If you like Metallica, bluegrass, and/or have an open mind to good music I recommend this album highly.