Graveyard Classics

Six Feet Under | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 24, 2000)
• Original Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metal Blade
• ASIN: B00004Z43H
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,522 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Obvious track listing should tip you off..., February 14, 2004

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Jeremy Ulrey "Bangyrmfhead" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Graveyard Classics (Audio CD)

If there's any concept that has been laboriously tested and found wanting in inspiration -- aside from the unanimously reviled tribute album -- it's the covers LP. Basically, here's where the boys you know and love take a break from producing real music and pretend they're a bar band again, working for a beer tab and whatever their girlfriends can shake out of the semi-conscious pub patrons that have collected (intentionally or not) in their presence. And they've got the anything-to-please-the-crowd set list to prove it.

What's disturbing about Six Feet Under is not their dismal lyrics or haunted house artwork but their seeming willingness to coast on their success as one of the top death metal draws around the world. First, they follow up their endearing debut with a valueless EP and sub par sophomore effort, and then they re-release last year's return to form ("Maximum Violence") six months later with a few cover songs thrown on as bonus tracks. Now to start off the millennium we get a whole album of blindingly obvious "graveyard classics." The fact that, for most budding metal guitarists, "Smoke on the Water" is the first song learned should be clue enough that no professional band need bother covering it, but SFU trudge through not only that tired war horse but "Purple Haze" and "Sweet Leaf" as well. What we have here is the "Wayne's World" soundtrack re-imagined as an album full of stoner death metal anthems. First time listeners may get a chuckle out of hearing Chris Barnes' glass gargling renditions of some old favorites, but most death metal fans will have experienced this all-too-brief amusement many times before.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Give me a break!, May 12, 2003

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emperorcaligula (Glen Burnie, MD.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Graveyard Classics (Audio CD)

When a metal band does cover tunes, it's usually a good idea to choose songs that have at least some similarity of style to what they already play normally. Slayer's 'Undisputed Attitude' CD, or Voivod's brilliant take on Pink Floyd's "Astronomy Domine" are perfect examples of how great bands can actually improve on already great songs. Bearing that in mind, SFU's contribution to the avalanche of cover albums is simply impossible to take seriously.

The problem here is simple: with the exception of the Savatage and Venom covers (both very good), these just aren't the kind of songs that an otherwise great band like SFU should even be attempting. It just comes across as sounding intentionally stupid. And I'm not just talking about the vocals (more on that in a minute)...the rest of the band just doesn't do anything interesting with the music itself. Had they released this as, say, a bonus CD with another album or maybe a specially-priced EP, this would probably be OK, but as it is, it's a full-priced joke that I could easily survive not hearing a second time.

Hardcore SFU fans may get a few chuckles out of this, if for no other reason than the novelty of hearing these old tunes sung (ahem) by Chris Barnes, but aside from that, I really wouldn't recommend this at all.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I liked it..., April 28, 2007

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David Falzano (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graveyard Classics (Audio CD)

I don't understand all of these negative reviews for this CD. OK a lot of these songs you can't imagine being covered by a death metal band, but for the most part they came out pretty good! I'd say it's definitely a fun death metal CD to listen to if you want to hear some good metal jams to chill to. My favorites on here are "Holocaust," "TNT," "Pirahna," "Son of a Bitch," "Stepping Stone," "Confused," & "Blackout."