THE MUSIC IS HEAVY BUT CHRIS S VOX SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - AFTER NOT LISTENING TO SFU FOR 10 YEAR?i HEARD OF THESE COVER CDS THE MUSIC IS TRUE TO FORMAND TIGHT BUT THE VOCAL KILL THE SONG ENTIRLY.THEY REALY DID DO GREAT COVERS NOTHING MORE BUT CHRIS VOX JUST KILLED THE WHOLE VIBE AND MADE THIS UNTOLERABLE TO LISTEN TOO.WHAT A SHAME!
blew my socks off - This has to be the worst idea in human history. The only thing I can suggest this album for is a few good, but short laughs. Their takes on ACDC classics are pathetic. For a good laugh I suggest their cover on Back In Black. If you can stand the first 30 seconds of it. What s next, a rap album by SFU??
I liked it... - I don t understand all of these negative reviews for this CD. OK a lot of these songs you can t imagine being covered by a death metal band, but for the most part they came out pretty good! I d say it s definitely a fun death metal CD to listen to if you want to hear some good metal jams to chill to. My favorites on here are Holocaust, TNT, Pirahna, Son of a Bitch, Stepping Stone, Confused, & Blackout.
Hilarious. - This album is really more for comic relief than a reverent tribute, which I guess is what it was really supposed to be. Chris Barnes deep vocals fit for songs like Piranha and Holocaust, but for stuff like Purple Haze and TNT, it just sounds like a goofy parody. I can really only enjoy them in the sense that it sounds so funny, but that s probably not what they were going for. The Sweet Leaf cover kinda sorta works, I guess, and John Bush sings on Blackout, which is pretty cool.Anyway, yeah, this is worth hearing for a laugh, if nothing else, but otherwise it ain t that great.
Don t think of it as a covers album - I bought this C.D. because I m a Six Feet Under fan and I thought it would be, if nothing else, good for a couple of laughs. So no, I didn t exactly listen to this covers album with an open mind. But after listening to it in its entirety, I can safely say Graveyard Classics is quite a bit better than I expected. It may be all hit or miss, but this is a great buy for Six Feet Under diehards, as well as fans who collect everything to do with Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, etc.Some think of any death metal group covering bands like Jimi Hendrix and The Dead Kennedys as a laughable idea. But you should at least give Six Feet Under props for a few things. First of all, you ve got to admit that this was a bold, daring, maybe even imaginative move by the band. Second, at least they didn t cover a song like, say, The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand. Next, Chris Barnes vocal style does often sound a bit silly, but this is the guy who perfected (maybe even created) the Cookie Monster vocals, so you can t expect him to sing properly. Plus, Chris didn t add any new lyrics to the songs--he left them the way they were written. Lastly, and most importantly, SFU s instrumentalists (especially guitarist Steve Swanson) usually remain quite faithful to the original songs (this album s music isn t very far off base.) The best advice I can give you, when listening to this disc, is that you shouldn t think of it as a covers album. Now, granted, it is sometimes hard not to think of what the original song sounded like and compare it to what it sounds like on Graveyard Classics. (For example, it takes a lot of strength not to crack a smile when SFU try their hand at the classic tune TNT, especially because they obviously tried to make it equally as catchy as when AC-DC first played it.) But every ingredient is here for this to be a good death metal and trademark Six Feet Under album (like heavy riffs and drum beats, wild guitar solos, and strong, visceral vocals), so if you just think of this as a regular death metal album, then you should enjoy it a lot more and realize most of the songs are pretty solid. When using the above-mentioned strategy of not comparing these songs to the originals, some of the tracks here are great! The door opener, Holocaust, has a churning rhythm with fiery guitar licks, heavy, thumping drums, and Chris patented, frog-throated bellows. Piranha is probably my personal favorite. It s a very fast, heavy, and all around excellent song which is brimming with walloping drums, great, ferocious riffs, and it even includes a fairly long, careening guitar solo. Tracks seven and ten, Confused and Blackout, are two other pretty good songs, even though the latter features an out-of-place cameo by Antrhax s John Bush, which kind of drags that song down. (Yes, I m aware that Blackout is an Anthrax song, but putting John Bush s singing next to Chris Barnes isn t the best idea.)Still, this is a covers album, so one can t help but compare these songs to the originals. Sweet Leaf (which, most likely, appears here because Chris Barnes is openly obsessed with pot) and Son Of A B - tch aren t bad covers (Son Of A B - tch would even be a good one if it didn t have an odd, very unexpected and loud shriek from Chris). Next, Stepping Stone, California Uber Alles, and In A League With Satan all sound kind of funny, even though I haven t heard the original versions. And finally, there are a few atrocious tracks. If you don t roll on the floor laughing after listening to Smoke On The Water and Purple Haze, then there s something wrong with your hearing. These two songs prove that there s sometimes truth in the saying don t tamper with the classics.So, in short, if these songs had different lyrics (or if Six Feet Under were the first band to play these songs), this would probably be a great album. One can t help but wonder what it might have sounded like if there was anybody except Chris Barnes singing, but as it stands now, Graveyard Classics is a good death metal album, but a terrible set of covers.