Various Artists: Covered In Black
- The Electric Hellfire Club - Highway To Hell
- Genitorturers - Squealer
- Die Krupps - It's a Long Way to the Top
- Spahn Ranch - Shot Down in Flames
- Godflesh - For Those About to Rock
- Joined at the Head - Whole Lotta Rosie
- Pigface vs Sheep on Drugs - Back In Black
- Birmingham 6 - Thunder Struck
- Razed In Black - Hells Bells
- Psychopomps - Badlands
- Klute - The Furor
- Terminal Sect with En Esch of KMFDM - Who Made Who
- Sister Machine Gun - TNT
- 16 Volt - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Covered in Black is probably one of the most depressing Cleopatra Tribute
compilations to date. Of the fourteen tracks present on the album only a
handful of the covers show any signs of straying from the original song
structure. In fact at least half of the tracks are direct covers without the
tiniest shread of deviance. Even bands who normally do not utilize a guitar in
their own recordings have added them to their repertoire for the sake of this
tribute. I do understand that AC/DC were considered one of the fathers of the
modern rock age, but did we really have to simply regurgitate the past twenty
years of their back catalogue. The only band that does not meet this blasphemous
criteria is Birmingham 6. Their cover of "Thunder Struck" has the best
interpretation of any cover song that I've had the pleasure of listening to in
some time. They go as far as to rewrite the entire song for the sequence and
keyboards including the opening guitar solo which has been entirely replaced
with electronics. As for the rest of the band, they should probably keep to
writing their own music rather than writing another clone cover tune.
Contact:
Cleopatra Records
8726 S. Sepulveda Blvd
Suite D-82
Los Angeles, CA 90045
E-mail: cleopatra@tunanet.com
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