Hurt is great too, but I was blown away by Disturbed’s cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence the first time I heard it. And even now it gives me chills.
As a metal song, it’s pretty good. As a cover, I think it barely counts. They essentially just played a brief homage to the melody at the very beginning, then abandoned it entirely. They lifted the lyrics almost one for one, for the most parts, but it bared no other resemblance to the original.
I like Disturbed’s cover because it transforms the song’s tone and the genre of the original while still being recognizable and truly paying homage to it. And it’s even outside Disturbed’s typical style. It’s incredibly unique.
Hurt is great too, but I was blown away by Disturbed’s cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence the first time I heard it. And even now it gives me chills.
Check out the thrash band Nevermore’s cover of the sound of silence, epic. Came out a fair bit earlier
As a metal song, it’s pretty good. As a cover, I think it barely counts. They essentially just played a brief homage to the melody at the very beginning, then abandoned it entirely. They lifted the lyrics almost one for one, for the most parts, but it bared no other resemblance to the original.
I like Disturbed’s cover because it transforms the song’s tone and the genre of the original while still being recognizable and truly paying homage to it. And it’s even outside Disturbed’s typical style. It’s incredibly unique.
That’s fair.
The Disturbed cover is so much better than the original that it makes the original sound like a bar cover.
In what way is it better? The Disturbed cover is just… Loud.
I honestly thought we’d escaped the Disturbed cover of Sound of Silence as a culture in the mid-to-late 2010s. It’s aggressively shit.
It’s so good, I know!