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I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT “PRESSURE” WOULD MAKE AN AWESOME METAL SONG

 Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 3:30pm by

fwtbj

Before we had pubes or had discovered metal, we thought that Billy Joel was the shit. As I got older, I seriously thought that someone could turn Joel’s song “pressure” into a pretty awesome metal cover. I always dreamed it would be Stratovarius or someone kind of Stratovarius-esque, but I’ll settle for For Whom the Bell Joels, the latest discovery from those geniuses at Metal Insider.

Of course, a metal band exclusively playing Billy Joel covers is a gimmick, and not even an especially clever one – but the band isn’t terrible, and I’m being sincere when I say I think they nailed “Pressure.” I can think of a handful of other BJ songs I’d be curious to hear these dudes try out.

If you have ever enjoyed boring middle-of-the-road soft rock made my an alcoholic from Long Island, check out For Whom the Bell Joels here.

-AR

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Murrie/1391587458 Christopher Murrie

    I liked when Beatallica did it first and better… and funnier

  • http://www.last.fm/user/xynobia xynobia

    Fuck the haters, Billy Joel is the man. And this idea has a lot of potential. Hoping for a pornogrind version of “She’s Always a Woman to Me”.

  • http://twitter.com/richardsporter Rich

    These guys are sick! Natalie is an amazing drummer

  • SeanN

    I heard somewhere that Billy Joel is a fan of Hard Rock/Metal music and had a hard rock band before he went solo. He used a heavily distorted keyboard. I’m not joking btw.

  • Damien Callaghan

    “boring middle-of-the-road soft rock?” Fine, but throw in Long Island in there and you, sir, have gone too far.

    I’ve seen this band live, and they are peerless musicians who have taken an amusing idea and bring it with pants-shitting intensity that will leave you speechless.

    You’d be blown away by what songs they combine, and make something truly more than the sum of it’s parts. Plus, the drummer is a really pretty girl with bigger balls than lars. Win Win across the board.

  • jason

    “As I already said Sir, we only play old Joel!”

  • Scott

    watched the videos on their site and when they started playing “jump in the Fire” at the end of “fantasy” I was blown away.
    you are wrong when you say that they are just “a metal band exclusively playing Billy Joel covers”
    because they are obviously doing more than that!
    and doing it really well!
    and Billy Joel’s heavy band was called Atilla.

  • newyorkfuckinhardcore

    Billy Club Sandwich did it (best) a few years back & it’s fuckin awesome. Maybe some of u fucks would know that if ya listened to anything other than metal once in a while.