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Punk Tribute to Metallica

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4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This CD is teriffic. I don't even like Metallica. The high points for me are DOA, Agent Orange, Vice Squad, Dee Dee Ramone, and Flipper. This CD is worth the price for the sonically destructive Flipper "Sad But True" alone. While they [beautifully] destroy the technical side of Metallica in true Flipper dischordant form, the lyrics sound like they could have come from either band in their prime. There's definately a common thread there. (I heard the original "sad but true" on the radio recently and sorry, but it just does not compare!) The Vice Squad's pre-shout-at-the-devil-Motley-Crue-style take on their cut is notable too. This CD oozes with full-on energy and I'm hooked on it lately, although I've had it for about 9 months now! I just ordered "Smells Like Bleach," a Nirvana trib with mostly the same line-up of bands, and I expect it to be real good too :D Rock on peeps! [I reserve 5 stars for absolute classics, so 4 is darn good]

This album contains the most inventive and refreshingly interpretive rendition of Master of Puppets I've ever heard.

You've heard every one else on the planet, now here some new views. And if Dee Dee's Jump in the Fire isn't the punkest, then Shotgun Remedy's For Whom the Bell Tolls takes the cake.

As both a Punk fan and a Metal fan, I must say that this CD really sucks, especially the feeble remake of Jump In The Fire. I'd hate to hear how they would've ruined The Thing That Should Not Be. What were these people thinking when they covered these songs.

This was interesting. I'm a huge punk fan, but I have to say that some of the tracks on this particular tribute CD were a bit unsettling. A lot of these classic Metallica songs were butchered by some of my favorite old school groups. However, one has to wonder what kind of statement these old fashioned punks were trying to make, especially after the whole napster incident involving internet file sharing and Metallica's very public dispute over it. Perhaps making these songs sound awful was their way at getting back at rediculous superstardom and short-haired rockers. Who knows? If you do decide to buy this album, I recomend the Agent Orange cover of Seek and Destroy and Sloppy Second's take on Hit the Lights. Am I Evil? was very nicely done, thanx to Pro Tools and DOA will always deliver. Otherwise, I simply ask that you save your money for more pertinent musical satisfaction like Minor Threat's Anthology or TSOL's Dance With Me. However, appreciate the punk attitude that this album, at least, tries to deliver: they don't care about what you think, they can barely play, and that's the way they like it.

This is overall a great tribute. Some of the "punk" songs are a little too metal sounding, and maybe a little too true to the originals, but the true punkers make the disc worth it. Highlights are Shotgun Remedy (rocking and funny), Dr. Know (awesome!), DOA (mix in surf punk and it works), and Dee Dee Ramone (punkest). Flipper and SBI disappoint a little, but the rest are tres cool.

This cd totally rocks!!!! I am not really familiar with most of the bands here but I can say that this is an original concept (whilst some would beg to differ). Punk covers of metal. Every Metallica album is covered from here except "Reload" (wonder why? :-) Anyway, the best songs on here are "Sandman", "I dissappear" (way cool) and even one of the covers that Metallica covered from Diamond Head "Am I Evil" is covered here. It is always good to hear covers of Metallica (Think Korn, Kid Rock), but being a punk album, the cd sometimes suffers from that "punk production" but then again, what better way to do Metallica songs? They are a band that always has reveled in the fact that they played punk songs by the Misfits and Anti Nowhere League in their garages in the early days up 'till now. But still and yet, because of few such flaws, I give this album 4 stars.

After hearing this, I was compelled to at least write something on how terrible this album is. Every song is butchered. How someone could sit there and put these tunes together and think that they are doing them justice is beyond me. I'm sure these punk bands are good in their own genre, but not playing Metallica. Save your money, PLEASE!!!!!!

this cd is pretty bad, I mean I like punk and metal, but crossing punk rhythm with metal lyrics it's.. well I laughed pretty hard listening to it. Because it's a completely different attitude punk and metal-- it's a weird mix.

That rendition of Jump in the Fire is terrible. I'm offended. Don't buy this, its a crime.