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DON’T EVEN STEP TO THE PIANO

 Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 12:10pm by

Yesterday a little fight broke out in the comments section of our bit on the mysteries of Andrew W.K., and not that a little fight breaking out in our comments section is unusual, but this fight wasn’t really about Andrew W.K. – it was about the piano, which AWK plays.

And the piano is awesome. There should be doubt of this. Good pianists should be respected, even if the phrase “good pianist” sounds kinda funny.

As if to prove this point for us, Maniac “musicalsnob” posted a link to a YouTube user going by the handle “vkgoeswild.” She does some pretty rad piano covers of metal songs. Check out her take on Carcass’ “Corporal Jigsore Quandar,” for example:

After the jump, check out vkgoeswild as she does Slayer’s “Raining Blood,” and actually makes Marilyn Manson sound pretty.

Here’s “Raining Blood”…

…and, holy shit, Marilyn Manson’s “Coma Black” is suddenly a beautiful Broadway ballad:

Not too shabby, eh?

Apparently Ms. goeswild is now taking requests. If anyone puts one in and she actually does it, let us know.

-AR

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  • canea

    Holy shit.

    A Roland isn’t a piano by the way. A Bosendorfer is a piano. How’s that for snobbery?

  • Kuranes

    It sounds like someone, somewhere, is being tied to a railroad track by a silent-movie villain.

    • david

      lol! i absolutely agree, for raining blood, that’s hilarious!

  • WowWee!

    Raining Blood was fucking amazing.

  • Chip Northcutt

    Piano sucks. Billy Joel, Elton John, they suck too. Sometimes someone will to something cool with a piano but it is in spite of the instrument. It is only cool to set up for the time when it is gone and the guitars take over.

    • matt

      wrong. rachmaninoff.

      • Sammy

        Actually, you really don’t need to point out a specific composer or artist to prove Chip wrong. The old saying, “Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself” comes to mind. Saying flatly “piano sucks” is reserved for the truly moronic.

      • bucketochicken
        • Marcel

          Badass. I’ll try to get a few cd’s of his big band stuff.

      • Chip Northcutt

        If Rachmaninoff had composed for electric guitar his music would be better. I realise he didn’t have an electric guitar, they were just invented prior to his death. If they were as popular as they are today, I’m sure he would have incorporated them into his work. I believe you mention him because he did some good things with a Piano. Good things have been done with sticks and stones by creative poeple. Isolated individuals who do cool things with a piano do more to prove the instrument sucks than they do to prove it is cool.

        • bucketochicken

          Sammy FTW.

  • bucketochicken

    Yes, the piano (and all of its cousins, both electronic and not), is awesome. So is the French horn.

    Actually, I woudl argue that ALL instruments are awesome*, regardless of for what style of music they are traditionally used.

    *Yes, even the accordian & banjo.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Christopher-Rowan/531575311 Christopher Rowan

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    • http://raiseyerfists.wordpress.com raiseyerfists

      I’d have to argue that the clarinet really, really sucks. Can’t stand the sound of that instrument. If some obnoxious, pimply, red-haired loser with a nasal voice were an instrument, he would be a clarinet. Fuck that instrument.

      • bucketochicken

        It’s all about the application.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Devon-Czekaj/550092101 Devon Czekaj

        I take offense to that statement…

    • Aaron R A

      Have you ever heard REAL traditional Irish music (not the Flogging Molly/Dropkick modernized shit)? Of course the banjo is fucking awesome!

      • bucketochicken

        Not to mention bluegrass, Bela Fleck…

        • bucketochicken

          …and this Giant Squid tune I just listened to…

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Brown/537636633 Keith Brown

      Oboe. Your argument is invalid

      • bucketochicken

        It isn’t.

  • wata

    We need more women in metal bands that aren’t stuck behind a piano. If they were hunched over a guitar, there would be more cleavage. But now that I think about it, boners in a mosh pit is a major faux pas. But still, cleavage is win.

  • ColinJ

    Cute. And talented. And metal.

    Marry me.

  • http://www.bayareametalscene.com DS

    That’s what you hear when you take the elevator TO HELL.

    • Set

      This comment is full of win

  • http://Www.hibernum.net Hibernum

    Pearls before swine…

  • i think

    i feel like punching her in the forehead

    stop with the spazzary you cunt

  • Jonathan

    If anyone here thinks that the piano sucks, I hereby declare you in need of re-evaluating what metal really means to you and to the rest of us. As has been noted on this site multiple times, piano composers and their other classical-instrument compatriots all have composed some of the most moving, emotional, and brutal pieces. Carmina Burana always comes to mind when I think of things like this.

    That song is about an hour long. And it’s heavy and deep, and epic. That’s what I call metal, even if it is orchestrated. And besides. Apocalyptica, anyone? Metal on cellos… ANOTHER classical instrument.

    I learned the piano for nine years before picking up a guitar. I’ve been playing the piano for an amount of years that’s into the double digits. And it’s more than ten, I’ll tell you that. A lot of people had guitar teachers. I only had a piano teacher, and I played trombone for a few years in middle school.

    I can play any instrument excluding drums. Unfortunately, I would need a teacher for that, and a lot of coordination practice. Any other instrument handed to me will be figured out in less than twelve hours.

    The guitar, though epic, is not the only metal instrument. Metal is a genre. A style of play. Much like how Jazz was mentioned yesterday, I believe, Jazz can be on the saxophone, piano, drums, voice, bass, guitar, trumpet, and so on. A style of music is not restricted to one set, one formula of instruments. What if Dragonforce had never used the keyboard. What if Muse had never used a trumpet (don’t believe me? Listen to Knights of Cydonia’s intro again)? What if Apocalyptica decided their cellos weren’t metal enough?

    We would be robbed of music that may not please everyone, but it pleases enough people that almost everyone has HEARD of that music. Piano is as metal as any other instrument.

    And, in my opinion, whoever said something about the French Horn being awesome deserves a thumbs up. Always wanted to get my hands on one of those… they’re so versatile!

    It’s been good to see some metal/classical music crossover themed posts recently.

    • Rachel

      Haha great post, completely agree. People also think Eluveitie isn’t metal because it has flute. they are entitled to their opinion, but I think flute is very metal.

  • ColinJ

    You ignorant bastards.

    Whenever I hear some meat-head declare “*Non-Metal–Something* SUCKS!!” I instantly equate you with those hardcore cunts who do lame-ass Capoeira moves in a mosh pit. Then go home and thrash your 3-inch cocks to shitty bro-rock like Godsmack.

    Hate to break it to you, you fanny-scratchers…but here’s a whole world of amazing music out there that isn’t necessarily the line up to next year’s Cruefest.

  • jasin

    That is one of the best carcass covers i’ve ever heard!!!