Customer Reviews

HEAVY HALLOWEEN - CD

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When I bought this C.D. I was under the impression that the songs listed were actually performed by the bands that wrote them. I should have known since the bands were not listed, but since there was no listing of who was performing the songs--like most tribute albums--I actually was naive enough to believe I would be listening to Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Metallica, etc... Instead this is at best a tribute album that could have been performed by anyone. Some of the songs aren't that bad, and the unknown singers do a reasonable job of faking the vocalists they are copying, but overall this was a huge disappointment.

I bought the CD version of this album from that other online CD dealer. If you read the teeny print on the back of the cd, it reads, "All newly recorded, digitally mastered music by The Hit Crew"

While they're admittedly a pretty good cover band, particularly when they're doing old Black Sabbeth tracks, this is not a recording by the original artists.

the promo for this product looked great! I should have looked a lot closer. All songs are recorded by "the crew" and is musically proficient but not the same. I thought these songs were the original releases. I was wrong. I guess these songs would work great in an elevator or the DMV; I just needed the originals.

I DO think these people are trying to copy the originals. While they might be fooled by an untrained ear, real fans of Ozzy, Motley Crue, Van Halen, and Iron Maiden (among others) will be sorely disappointed as I was.

The artists who did this, aren't attempting to "copy" the original artists. They do a wonderful job. The covers are well performed. This is a great CD if you like the songs, or if you've grown tired of the vocalists that originally sang the songs.

....however, I bought this for a dollar, and that price it's not a bad little CD... but I did think they would be the real artists. I bought it mainly for Shout at the Devil, in which the singer there does an awful job trying to impersonate Vince Neil. The Psycho Circus is clearly not KISS... but still not a bad version. They totally screw up Runnin with the Devil. The singe rsounds NOTHING like David Lee Roth. But overall, not a bad tribute album, and if you happen to catch it at the Dollar Tree, buy it.