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EMMURE PROVE OUR POINT

 Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 4:00pm by

I’ve never been to Bamboozle, but every year there’s a day where artists do an entire set covering one other artist. So if you’ve ever wanted to see, for example, Manure Emmure covering Rage Against the Machine for a solid thirty minutes, well, you’ve now missed your chance.

Rage Against the Machine made number nine on our list of “Ten Bands Great That Inadvertently Ruined Metal,” and even if the below footage of said Emmure homage to RATM doesn’t actually justify the rap-metal pioneers’ spot on that line-up, the fact that the Emmure dudes and I like some of the same music makes me feel like I need to take a shower. (Yep, bloggers shower, too! Sometimes.) Making it worse is that the band does nothing to put their own spin on the music (I think – I admit that even if they did I’d probably just make fun of them for being terrible), and that vocalist Frankie Palmeri seems to have mustered about as much enthusiasm for this performance as Rob Halford would if Christina Scabbia offered to jump his bones. I can’t believe this dude can get excited about Raptor Jesus, but not playing “Killing in the Name.”

Oh, well. Whatever keeps them from ripping-off The Acacia Strain I guess.

-AR

[via The PRP]

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  • Tonberry

    Without De la Rocha’s vocals, it was slightly less annoying than the original..

  • http://dmxrr15@hotmail.com IsntaTOTALdouchebag10

    Someone needs to teach that douche how to rock out to a good tune. Have some conviction if you are going to (attempt?) to sing such a passion filled song.

  • B-dizzle

    F aggot band F aggot music

  • Nick

    Nice zing at the end there about the acacia strain

  • Beereded

    Well, good to see that Metal Sucks exercises no bias or discretion in what stories they will cover. Why even bother covering shit bands like this? You’re just dignifying them with some sort of rise out of you guys, even if it is just to insult them.

  • Tanner

    Those Hippos can really shred..

  • kngdeuce

    The hate that emmure gets now is so played out i honsetly don’t think people even listened to felony but just listened to what some dumbass said, it was the best album of 09′ and is emmure’s best album anyone that thinks different or calls emmure an TAS rip off can go kill themselves because if you listen to it TAS pretty much ripped off the respect issue for continent so they both ripped each other off and both sound great as fuck

    • GoingDeaf?

      Based on your comment, I’d guess you’re <16 years old…. there's no reason to like Emmure past puberty.

    • stu1

      Do you wear a hockey helmet to school? There’s absolutely no denying Emmure are a TAS cover band. Like none. Also, if you think Emmure had the best anything of 2009, you really need to wait until you’re at least 17 to post here.

      • Alex_P

        That’s an insult to my 15-year old brother, dude. He’s listening to Ihsahn and Scale the Summit (thanks to me).

        • stu1

          Sorry, but for every kid with good taste, there’s probably about 47 tool bags like the dude above, gobbling down a KFC Double Down,

          • Alex_P

            Yeah, I know. I regret, I was the tool bag at 15, listening to Sum 41 and Billy Talent. I was just getting into Maiden and DFA 1979, and the Bronx was just around the corner, though.

            Took me way too long to actually start fucking digging for music, though.

    • Alex_P

      Why would I listen to a band whose lyricist wrote “Ask yo girl how my dick taste” and THEN saw fit to put it on the back of a shirt, as if it’s their best line. Emmure’s shit music makes me WANT to kill myself, but then I just listen to the good music on my iPod and their inferiority-core just goes away.

    • treghet

      I spent time looking for these videos to prove to you Emmure ripped off The Acacia Strain. Not that it really matters, since they both blow, but it’s fun proving idiots like you wrong.

      The Acacia Strain:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKU8MPW1ImE

      Emmure:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRKPqmBJiM

  • twistedfreak

    Die in fire Manure.

  • ferocious_fetus

    I don’t like Emmure.
    I like Rage Against The Machine.
    I like this cover.
    Everyone else in the band (minus homeboy singing) looked like they were having a blast.
    The Bulls on Parade video is sweet though.

  • http://schenkeltown.blogspot.com SchenkelTown

    metalsucks sponsored a tour that featured emmure

    fail

  • Devilinside3x6

    I like Emmure. I like The Acacia Strain. I used to listen of Ace of Base when I was a kid.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Timothy-Scott/1196691346 Timothy Scott

      then you saw the sign.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Timothy-Scott/1196691346 Timothy Scott

    I dont see why everyone is hating on Emmure, a few years ago this very site said good things about them. Just because Chaz is a tool does not mean that the music sucks. Give them a chance, if they were not lumped in with that damn ‘Deathcore” crap people would be all over them. Same with Suicide Silence, I saw them at Mayhem and they killed it. get over it people Metal is Metal, if you dont like the music then dont listen.

    • wtfhax

      hurrr

    • kmfcm

      a few years ago they weren’t that bad

      now they are

  • kmfcm

    they’re only doing it because Stray From the Path started wearing their RATM on thier sleeve a year ago

  • christian

    come on guys we all know we need bands like this. i mean look at mainstream pop/hiphop, they make a whole CAREERR off of other peoples music. which just goes to show us, in the end, labels need bands like this to rope in new listeners, mostly kids who hear a breakdown then brag cause its BROOTAL with some SQUEELs. brings in shirts, hoodies, hats, cds, boxing gloves (oh yeah, look em up fellas) bottom line, they serve a purpose, its just happened to be serving up a sick twisted perverted ate paint chips as a kid idea of what “music” is.

    • Alex_P

      Yes and no. Even for genericore, you can do way better.

      Or hell, you can do well. This band is taking in fan money that could be going to the Red Chord, rewarding them for their fucking infectious music.

  • dongreyface

    I hate this band. And that fuckerof a guitar player rubs me raw. He doesn’t deserve the promote those ibanez guitars he plays. Shit, he doesn’t even know what the fuck he’s talking about. I tell you, he really made me NOT want to buy this guitar, and I was intrigued before I witnessed this monstrosity below.

    http://www.ibanez.com/news?ceId=2788&cat=4

  • Matthew Grant Anson

    Limp Bizkit, anyone?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-J-Henningsgard/1024517365 Steven J. Henningsgard

    Oh they definitely put their own spin on it. By fucking butchering it. How can you not play the first fucking riff? There are FIVE NOTES!!!

    How anybody could even pretend to like this fucking band is beyond comprehension.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/RIchard-Kulba/514264422 RIchard Kulba

    I just watched this video. It was a fail from the start, a suicide in the middle, and just covering that song in a pile of shit at the end. I just want to slap each one of them for doing this song, or even being a band. That song should NEVER be covered in the first place. 2 guitarist to play what Tom Morrelo did, these guys earn to suck