Top Albums March 8 – March 14 2021

  1. Stabbing Westward – Dead and Gone (10)
  2. Blitzkrieg – Ten (7)
  3. Stabbing Westward – Ungod (7)
  4. Apartment 26 – Music for the Massive (6)
  5. Metallica – Death Magnetic (5)

via my last.fm.

Covering Your Tracks – 50

Pinging off of the previous CYT, wherein someone LARP’d Rammstein covering a Metallica song. In this one, it is an actual someone claiming it is Rammstein covering Metallica’s “Sad But True.” Surprise! It isn’t Rammstein. It is a band called In Strict Confidence.

It completely upends the original. Rammstein’s In Strict Confidence’s version is a different song entirely. It does, however, use English lyrics. It is a cross between the iconic Rammstein German industrial sound, and a rave dance track. Here’s the cover;

So different, right? It may not be Rammstein, as sold over and over on cover collections, and on Youtube, but it is, nevertheless, a cover.