Viral Videos
The O'Keefe Music Foundation is a non-profit that helps kids learn about music performance and production, as well as record their own music for free. And what some of those kids decided to record is an awesome version of Slipknot's "Duality."
According to a statement by the O'Keefe Foundation: "After practicing their parts for nearly a year the kids recorded 'Duality' with a toy drumset, a toy glockenspiel, a kitchen pot played with a wooden spoon, a beer keg played with a pink metal baseball bat, two electric guitars and a bass guitar."
Find out more about the O'Keefe Foundation here, and check out "Duality" below!
Chicago-based guitarist Rob Scallon is, as we've shown in the past, the guy who covers Slayer and Cannibal Corpse songs with banjos and ukuleles. Here, Rob goes full-on classical metal. This video, as he says, features him playing "Bach's 'Badinerie' if he was in a metal band."
Check out the video below and let us know what you think in the comments!
For more about Scallon, follow him on Facebook and Twitter. You can also watch his previous "Raining Blood" banjo cover and "War Ensemble" cover.
Killswitch Engage recently dressed up as Star Wars characters for the new issue of Revolver, and now, to continue the 'Force Awakens' fervor, a band calling themselves Galactic Empire have delivered an epic metal version of composer John Williams' famous 'Star Wars' theme music.
As it turns out, Galactic Empire consists of some pedigreed metal men—Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland of Atrium Audio, who have produced bands like August Burns Red and Rivers of Nihil; members of Alustrium; and, on this song, a guest vocal from Black Crown Initiate singer James Dorton.
Says guitarist "Darth Vader": "These instruments are crude but should be adequate to shred some faces as we journey across the galaxy. We have been doubling our efforts to complete our debut full-length album in time for the Emperor's arrival. If you are not part of the Rebel Alliance or a traitor, buy our single on iTunes and prepare to succumb to the Dark Side upon our album's release."
Check out the video below and let us know what you think in the comments!
SockPuppetParody have posted their newest video, this one a black metal ode to Christmas titled "The Summoning."
Check out the video below and let us know what you think in the comments!
MORE SOCK PUPPETS: Watch Socknot parody Slipknot's "Wait and Bleed"! and Watch Lintallica parody Metallica's "Master of Puppets"!
Woods of Trees, who describe themselves as "the darkest, Kvltest, swaggest Black Metal from the depths of Hel," have posted a black metal version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas."
Said the band: "Gather round, Necrolords ov ultimate malignance, and witness this new abhorrent kreation by yours truly. Let us stain this joyous festive season with the most grim and frostbitten darkness the masses have ever seen, and let us do it together!!! I. Big Winter, present to you the music video for " 'All I Want For Kriegmas is You' "
Check out "All I Want For Kriegmas is You" below, and get into the holiday spirit, black metal style:
In this brand-new video (posted to YouTube December 7), Cooper Carter plays all 31 orchestral parts heard in the original big-screen version of the 'Star Wars' theme song—on guitar! We're talking about the full orchestra here, including the oboe parts, the flute parts, the violin and viola parts, etc.
"Forty-five tracks, 31 orchestral parts, 12 Star Wars shirts and a whole lotta guitars," Cooper says. "[It's] one giant tribute to the greatest saga of all time."
The iconic piece was, of course, composed by John Williams, and Carter arranged this "guitar orchestra" version himself.
For more about Cooper, visit coopercarter.com and follow him on YouTube.
Banjo Guy Ollie, who has done bluegrass-infused covers of everything from Metallica's "Enter Sandman" to the theme from 'Street Fighter,' has uploaded his newest creation—a banjo led cover of Rage Against the Machine's rap-metal classic, "Killing in the Name."
Check out the cover below and let us know what you think in the comments!
A few weeks back, while awarding the Medal of Honor to former Army captain Florent Groberg in a Veteran's Day ceremony, President Obama made a joke about how he was "not the lead singer from Korn." The comment came in response to a story that Groberg, who had been badly injured tackling a suicide bomber in Afghanistan in 2012, was visited by Korn's Jonathan Davis while he was recovering. A huge fan of the band, he thought he was hallucinating when he saw Davis.
At the ceremony, President Obama joked:
"Today, Flo, I wanna assure you you are not hallucinating. You are actually in the White House. Those cameras are on, [and] I am not the lead singer from Korn."
Now, a new video shows that while the President may not be a member of Korn, he sings a mean "Freak On a Leash." Watch below:
We've posted about Slayer Bob and his awesome Christmas lights displays before, and now he's back with not one but two new video for 2015.
The first video finds him lighting things up to Disturbed's "The Light," and the second clip is set to Slipknot's "Psychosocial."
Check out the videos below and let us know what you think in the comments!