Metallica's thundering drums, heart-pounding guitars and anguished vocals tell the story of people lost in the hustle of modern society. Bluegrass music sings the tale of people stuck between heaven and hell, the farm and the city and love and hate. In many ways Metallica and bluegrass are brothers, one raised in the urban jungle and the other in the country. So what happens when these two estranged siblings get together? FADE TO BLUEGRASS: THE BLUEGRASS TRIBUTE TO METALLICA has the answer. Banjo and mandolin replace electric guitars and high lonesome harmonies soar in place of growling vocals to create a surprising and moving tribute. Performed with passion and skill by Alabama bluegrass band Iron Horse, and featuring classics such as "Unforgiven," "Enter Sandman" and "Fade to Black," FADE TO BLUEGRASS: THE BLUEGRASS TRIBUTE TO METALLICA is a family reunion between brothers heavy metal and bluegrass.
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Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica
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Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica
Manufacturer: Cmh Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B0000CC866 Release Date: 2003-10-14 |
Tracks:
- Unforgiven
- Nothing Else Matters
- Enter Sandman
- Hero Of The Day
- Fade To Black
- One
- Ride The Lightning
- Wherever I May Roam
- Fuel
- The Four Horsemen
Product Description
1. Unforgiven
2. Nothing Else Matters
3. Enter Sandman
4. Hero Of The Day
5. Fade To Black
6. One
7. Ride The Lightning
8. Wherever I May Roam
9. Fuel
10. The Four Horsemen
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Serious bluegrass covers.......2007-07-11
My friends and I found this at a Best Buy one evening, and bought it as a joke thinking that it was going to be like Hayseed Dixie but hopefully with better singing. We laughed like crazy at first, but gradually came around and started saying "wow, that's actually a great way to re-work the song."
Now the album will not be for everyone. Metal fans are one of those groups that will by and large stick to their genre only and not give others a chance. If you're like me, though, and you not only love cover songs but also ones that try to take the material to a new place, give this CD a try.
The only weak spot, as has been noted in other reviews, is Fuel. The rest of the CD ranges from solid (Four Horsemen) to spectacular (Hero of the Day).
Not as good as the AC/DC Bluegrass tribute.......2007-04-21
I LOVED the AC/DC Bluegrass Tribute so much I came back for the Metallica version.....I listed to the first minute of each song...then skipped to the next...and haven't played it again since....I personally thought it was awful...but looks like others liked it based on the below reviews....so if you can handle the bad singing the whole way through each song....you might like it!
The are all fun .......2007-02-04
Okay so its like this,
I have been listening to rock and roll for 25 years
I work in an office, do the "cube life", sitting at a PC for most of the day, working on my own, popping out to get liquids or drain liquids, chat some, that's the life. Now this ipod deal comes along a few years ago. Only, if your going to listen to music all day, you just cant listen to real pure rock and roll all day, you just cant. I don't care if your homeless sitting in a park all day with an ipod on, you just cant listen to real hard rock and roll for hours and hours at time all day everyday.
Classical puts me to sleep. I can handle some of it in the morning, ease into the day, but not allot of it. Pop I don't care for much. Country is singing about my dog had an affair on my wife doesn't cut it either, what did I just say? Anyway, and Rap is out. Opera, No, what ARE they saying?!. So what to do?
Well thanks to my Dad, who used to watch Hee Haw all the time when I was growing up, and man did I hate it that show! Even today I seen some of it not long ago, its corny country stuff, but when Roy Clark comes on and solos for a song, then man always caught my attention. He was flat out good. But still I would "never" and have never owned a bluegrass cd. Get real!
But then, a friend, listening to me talk of my search to get some kind of music going for the day, loaned me a String Cheese Incident CD, an On The Road 3 cd set, and said just try it for awhile. Let it grow on you. What do you have to lose? Well yep I ended up submitting to it, and then really liking it. Before long I was walking around the office humming along, co workers going what you got playing man?? So having remembered seeing these Pickin' on cd's before, I said well why not try it, so I started off with one, right away started laughing and laughing good not at it. Then I find these Bluegrass tributes. Now mind you no way would this happen up till a few years ago. Getting older? I don't know, many people are born and raised on this stuff. Its all in how you approach it. And I will tell ya what, that was a couple years ago and 6 pickin' on cd's later, a few bluegrass tributes, I am so much more relaxed at work now. What I didn't notice before was music and singing along with it ALL day works on you more than you realize. I actually like the pickin' On ones more, as I listen to music all day, but these are fun also! Just having some "cruising tunes" playing with no singing really is relaxing. I don't have this playing all day, but its taking up a couple hours a day. Some more String Cheese cd's. And I will sooner or later just end up getting everyone of these pickin' on cd's. You see its not all about "oh this one doesn't jam enough" or the other one is better than this one. Nah. If you like Rock, and don't want to listen to it all day, then get used to these trust me, I did and its worth it. I still laugh at dif times playing them. And now some coworkers and friends have them loaded up also. I still have all the "real" bands loaded into my ipod, never giving up on Classic Rock and Roll, ever!
Lastly, I am not someone who sells these CD's. I actually am very picky if you read my reviews, and look at my Amazon name! and flunk so much stuff that's out there. Believe me this has caught me off guard. Just thought I would let anyone know that is searching for a new way listen to the day to try it out a bit. Give it time. Don't just listen partly or once then blow it all off, scoff and go Sacrilege! For I did before, but now a convert, and after a couple years of it, I get it, and will be enjoying these for years to come, just like the real rock and roll at times. Good luck.
A real genre-bender/uniter.......2006-10-18
This group has a tribute album to Modest Mouse, too. I've only heard 3 songs off of it, but it is amazing.
Best thing I ever bought in my life........2006-05-25
I recommend getting both albums if you're planning on getting the first because the second one is even BETTER. They took the few lyrics in To Live Is To Die and made it a three minute song that I can sing a long to in my car forever. And ever.
These guys are talented and committed to not destroying Metallicas name completely. Almost every song is up-beat and toe tapping but you can still hear Hetfields angst in everyones folk guitars.
Oh and theres a mandolin. Come on.
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Fade to Bluegrass: The Bluegrass Tribute to Metallica, Vol. 2
Various Artists Manufacturer: Cmh Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000CEV47M Release Date: 2006-01-31 |
Tracks:
- Master Of Puppets
- The Thing That Should Not Be
- Memory Remains
- Creeping Death
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Harvester Of Sorrow
- To Live Is To Die
- Sad But True
- Frantic
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Product Description
1. Master Of Puppets
2. Thing That Should Not Be, The
3. Memory Remains
4. Creeping Death
5. For Whom The Bell Tolls
6. Harvester Of Sorrow
7. To Live Is To Die
8. Sad But True
9. Frantic
10. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
So, we needed TWO VOLUMES of this?!.......2007-04-02
The only downside here is that CMH didn't use a larger sample size to test the theory. They should have pressed 6.5 billion of these, one for every man, woman, and child on the planet.
Although the sales would have still been ZERO, they would have given much entertainment to all the poor folks in Africa. True, you can't eat a CD, but they can be used for things like, killing ants (via sun reflection), battlefield signaling (via sun reflection), palm tanning (again, via sun reflection), etc. Of course one could actually play them in a CD player, but why chance burning up the motors in a perfectly good CD player?
All kidding aside, the musicians are decent, and the singing isn't bad, but when is CMH going to wake up and start producing BLUEGRASS AGAIN? I mean, PLEEEEEASE---METALLICA? M-E-T-A-L-L-I-C-A ?!
A Mighty Fine Pickin' 'n A-Singin'!.......2006-11-01
Where "Fade to Bluegrass Volume II" succeeds is in breathing some new life into some slightly-aged tracks from 10+ years ago in some cases, as well as giving a new face to more recent tracks that might've been passed over because of the album they were on. But, where "Fade to Bluegrass Volume II" fails is in its grace; the original "Fade to Bluegrass" album is an all-time favorite of mine, and the tracks on it were not only well-done, but changed to bring familiarity and freshness to them, whereas a few of the tracks on Volume II feel... alien. A good example being the track "To Live is to Die". Originally a sweeping, epic, sorrow-filled song in rememberance of fallen bassist Cliff Burton, the version found on this Bluegrass translation is a short, under-four-minute li'l ditty with the once-spoken verse now being sung the whole way through. And while this does what the album sets out to do - takes these songs and give a new spin on them - it ends up hurting more than helping, as the original and translated versions bear little semblance to each other, and therefore hurting the overall feel of the product.
Most of this album is very, very good. But, there's just something lacking in this Volume that was present in the first. It's very difficult to put it in words, it's something aural, perhaps the feel that perhaps a couple of these tracks were rushed through without putting enough consideration into how to turn them from pounding metal to plucking bluegrass, and leaving the end result with a bit more to be desired.
An Excellent combination of the two genres.......2006-10-31
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