Normal Service will now be resumed
There’s been a brief hiatus here at Music Banter whilst the real world (you know, that scary place outside computer screens where stuff happens and people do all manner of frightening things like mug you in the dark and stuff) intruded, but now your humble bloggist is back at the keyboard as is only right and proper.
This seems as good a time as any to mention that there’ll be a few changes, and an attempt to stick to a sort of regular format on here. I’m going to try running a few regular features, at different intervals throughout the standard month. There’ll be at least one new band mentioned each week, and a playlist at the end of each month which lists the best of that period’s new music. Hopefully, it’ll be interesting, to write if nothing else.
I’m still thrashing out a few ideas about how this is going to work, but in the mean time, here’s a taste of one of these regular features. That’s right, it’s time for…
AMUSING DEATH METAL COVER OF THE MONTH!
I love metal. It’s the most consistently humourous of all the music genres, what with all the growling and the angst and the leather, and those ridiculous solos, and the drumming which just sounds like someone tapdancing and, oh, all of it really. The absolute seriousness that a man can muster when standing on stage, making a sound like a Harryhausen monster into a microphone, never fails to make me collapse into fits of laughter.
And those band names. Oh my god. The band names. Cradle of Filth. Anus Tumour. Life of Agony. Spermswamp.
Seriously, SPERMSWAMP. I have no words, I really haven’t.
Sometimes, however, metal bands are in on the joke. Here is the time-honoured joke of the cover of an innocuous, anodyne pop song by a bunch of shaggy-haired, leather clad doom merchants. Sometimes it’s lame, sometimes not. Sometimes it works beyond all recognition.
Anywhere, here is the first in this series. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you ‘People in Distress’ and their sensitive rendition of ‘Theme From Tetris.’
