by Benjamin Haines » Thu Apr 25, 2019 9:40 pm
It's a symphonic metal cover of Blue Oyster Cult's "Godzilla." Bear McCreary conducts the orchestra with Serj Tankian on vocals, Brendon Small on guitar, Gene Hoglan on drums, and Bryan Beller on bass. They made this for the soundtrack to the new American Godzilla movie featuring the first Hollywood takes on Rodan, Mothra and Ghidorah, and the score also reworks classic themes composed by Akira Ifukube and Yuji Koseki.
Is this some kind of joke? The only way this could possibly be more tailored to my own tastes is if they incorporated members of Metallica and/or Black Sabbath. What is happening? Am I being channeled without my consent?
I got to see System of a Down in Raleigh when they headlined OzzFest 2006 just before they went on their hiatus. I saw Dethklok in 2012 when they played at the Tabernacle in Atlanta — 's the article I wrote in college about that concert.
This cover song is so gloriously over-the-top. I also really dig "Old Rivals" and the way it incorporates Godzilla's classic theme.
Speaking of Dethklok, anyone who loves melodic death metal should listen to Brendon Small's Galaktikon II: Become the Storm album from 2017. It's a Dethklok album in everything but name and the story it tells (in the vinyl track order) is the story of the final unproduced season of Metalocalypse which Adult Swim refuses to ever make. Some of the best songs on the album are , , and but the whole thing is a masterpiece.