While I’ve grown pretty accustomed to the standard death growl vocal delivery used in bands like Amon Amarth, Arsis, Kataklysm and Hypocrisy, I have never… never… been able to make out the lyrics for tha vast majority of the songs by death metal giants Cannibal Corpse. Fellow blogster Nyck and I have had an ongoing joke about this for a long while, after we read through the band’s page on Dark Lyrics one wasteful afternoon at the office. Hell, most of the song titles are comedy gold in themselves… as long as you have a twisted sense of humor like we do.

I understand these lyrics, like horror movies, are meant to be completely over the top, cringe-worthy entertainment, and I really have no problem with that. Especially when they’re sung by fake Australian lounge singer,  Andrew Hansen, who, in this performance, is cringe-worthy in his own right. Enjoy!

Now, why have I never heard Richard Cheese do a cover like this? A Heavy Metal Thanks goes out to Travis for giving me the heads-up on this. It looks like it’s been online for ages… I have no clue how I’ve missed it this long.

As some people may know, back in the wee years of 2000 to 2004, I was the website designer and webmaster for the Elektra-signed hard rock band Systematic. Working with them was wonderful, and I think it really helped propel me to where I am now in my career (story forthcoming). Well, last night on my drive home from the movies (of course), a few tunes came on my iPod, and I felt an overwhelming urge to share them with everyone. They’re a few lesser known tracks the band released as online exclusives on their official website.

Tim Narducci, Adam Ruppel and the boys recorded Blue Oyster Cult‘s classic “Career of Evil” and posted it on the site to introduce drummer-extraordinarre Paul Bostaph to the Systematic crew, as well as to serve as a teaser to their sophomore (and ultimately final) album “Pleasure to Burn”. Personally, I absolutely love this cover. It just plain rocks my socks off. Check it out:

The ever-impressive Cellonator (or Sachino Tsinadze as he’s known to his parents) ripping through yet another Joe Satriani tune, Always With Me Always With You. This has always been one of my favorite Satch songs, and it’s nice to hear such an interesting spin on it. Enjoy.

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Children of Bodom has long been one of my favorite bands and one of few musical acts that make me want to drop some serious dime on a nice keyboard so I can rock out on the ivories. Check out this rocking rendition of Bed of Razors by YouTuber escapinganxiety:

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I know, I know… I seem to have a thing for cellos. Well, when it comes to interesting song covers on the web, the cello is the current instrument of choice (and shall remain so for all time if I had my way). Take a listen to TimCelliste‘s cello-tized version of Muse‘s Knights of Cydonia (a.k.a. that one song everyone loves but never heard of until they played Guitar Hero 3):

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I really enjoyed this Piano rendition of “3 Libras” by A Perfect Circle and I hope you do as well. It has a very soothing quality to it that the original version has as well. Make sure to visit thumphrey05′s profile page to see numerous more samplings of his work.

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