PERIPHERY COVER MICHAEL JACKSON, AUGUST BURNS RED COVER THEMSELVES
Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 4:30pm by Vince Neilstein
Periphery, an MS fave appearing on this year’s Thrash & Burn tour with Veil of Maya and Devildriver, have posted their own version of Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” on their MySpace page. It’s a pretty fresh Sumeriancore take on the track, and I laud that they didn’t chose to cover a more predictable Jackson tune that’s been done by other metal bands ad infinitum (see: Billie Jean, Beat It, etc). New Periphery vocalist Chris Barretto fucking nails it without overdoing it; psyched to see this guy live. Check out the rest of the band’s super-awesome tracks while you’re at it. [Thanks: Metal Injection]- August Burns Red have released the new track “Ocean Of Apathy” on their MySpace page, and it’s essentially a re-jiggered cover of everything else the band has done to date. ABR are definitely better than other Christian metalcore acts like Underoath, but in 2009 there ain’t a whole lot of room to do anything new with metalcore. I’m sure the ABR Christian Haterade Mafia will be lambasting death threats upon the Jews of this here site in mere moments, but whatever. Meh.
-VN
ok…WHAT THE FUCK IS SUMERIANCORE?!?
Skwisgaar – ands this is the guitars thats ams made from the wood of the cross of Christ.
Murderface – oh geeze here comes a million e-mails from offended religious wierdos
Skwisgaar – whats so’s offensives about the most religious guitars?
i’m an atheist and i like august burns red. is there something wrong with me?
No. Something’s wrong with you because your name is poopsmcgee. ;)
Yes. August burns red is terrible.
Yeah they’re so terrible. Why don’t you play their instruments for them then? Especially the drummer.
That periphery cover sounded like the original, aside from maybe 5 seconds of screaming and the occasional loud guitars.
wtf is SUMERIANCORE?
Apparently “Sumeriancore” is a way to classify bands signed to Sumerian Records? I.E. After the Burial, Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris, The Faceless, Conducting From the Grave, etc. I don’t know if they can all be lumped into a single sound like “Sumeriancore” though. I mean, come on, Creature Feature?
The third new song from ABR’s new album that was debuted on their MySpace isn’t all that good. I’m still excited for the new album though.
“Sumeriancore” makes absolute , utter, and total sense. though periphery is not signed to sumerian.