Friday Tradition!

[theweaselking]

Today, we have nerd metal gods Cirith Ungol doing Johann Motherfucking Sebastian Bach, and proving, in the process, my theory that heavy metal is just classical with different instruments.

Comments

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

See if you can get your hands on Scatterbrain's “Sonata #3”, where they do similar to Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

I think metal's more like early music than classical, myself, but J.S.Bach, being baroque, straddles early and classical anyhow (some folks classify him as classical; some count him as early).

I'll have to get around to recording an electric guitar performance of the 12th Century saltarello that opened my eyes to this.

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

Actually, try this. Don't say I never do anything for you.

[kjn]

You have seen the Youtube of Smoke on the Water with traditional Japanese instruments?

[wyatt1048.livejournal.com]

A good case of the cover sounding better than the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjufc7GMrCs)

[andrewducker]

Q magazine once referred to Iron Maiden as "Opera with razor blades" :->

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

It's not just you making that connection *grins*

http://rattsu.livejournal.com/43428.html