FREE MUSIC: The End Records 2011 Sampler

Who doesn't like free music? Nazis, that's who! Well, even Nazis probably like free music. The End Records has made a free 2011 sampler available via Bandcamp.com. The 12 track sampler contains songs from such bands as Danzig, Anvil, Dir En Grey, Goes Cube, Kvelertak and more! See the complete track listing and get the link after the fold.

Another Crappy Tarja Cover. When She Was a Wee Lass

'Ben' was a horrifically bad Michael Jackson song when it was popular. I mean stomach churning. Well in pre 1994 when Tarja Turenen was just 17 or so she was filmed doing a cover of that very same song. So this kind of thing has been her niche for a long time not just her post-Nightwish years.Here is the footage of her singing it. Because your Saturday needed to be worse didn't it?

Tarja's new song is just so wrong, it's right!

Many of us love Nightwish. For a lot of NW fans out there it was Tarja's operatic siren-song voice that drew us to them and for some people (like our own Rob Liz) Anette Olson's voice just doesn't cut it. So we followed Tarja like the Pied Piper of Hamelin like rats in a row; headbanging all the way to the water's edge.

I really enjoyed Tarja's first solo release My Winter Storm and was right there in the front row when she brought the tour to the Bay Area. I'll even admit, though Rob'll give me shit for it that I even liked her cover of Alice Cooper's "Poison". Ok, there, I said it.

Her new CD, What Lies Beneath is just as epic and out there, taking you from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows; but what really caught my attention was the first track Anteroom of Death. The fist time I heard it I thought to myself - wow, this is weird. The next time I was what the eff?!?! But as time went on the song worked its way into my brain like a cancer and I ended up humming the tune or singing lines from time to time and I found myself hooked.

The next couple times I listened to it was pure pleasure and this once strange song now made perfect sense to me. What turned out to be a bonus that I honestly had no idea about the first few times I listened to it was that my favourite Metal A Capella band Van Canto was responsible for the arrangement and performance of the choir vocals.

You might need to give the song a few listens before you completely write it off, I know I almost did. Just give it a chance and you'll end up loving it and awe at how this crazy tune will grow on you whether you want it to or not.

Here's the song for your listening pleasure.


Tarja - Anteroom Of Death (Feat. Van Canto) found on Metal


You can purchase Tarja's album What Lies Beneath here on iTunes.

Here it is on Amazon if you want the physical copy.





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The best of the worst covers

So, a while back Rob Liz shared with me a song filled to the brim with fail. It wasn't from Vampires Everywhere! believe it or not. It's not from Trivium. It didn't come from any of his "Unsigned and unknown" wannabe's that he shares with us from time to time. It's from beloved Operatic songstress and former Nightwish Diva, Tarja. The song - a cover of overplayed and uninspiring 80's cock rock song "In the Still of the Night" by Whitesnake. This version, the live one, was just so bad, so horrible that I couldn't get through 30 seconds of it. Well kids, as I've been trolling through her new release, "What Lies Beaneath", I came across that gem in studio format and I have to say, it's just as bad.

So, that got me thinking. We're at a time frame in music, where many artists are covering classics from days of olde and other genres, and some of them have turned out pretty good. What I want to know is, what are the BAD ones, and more specifically, which is the worst of the worst? I'm throwing the gauntlet (again, thanks to Rob) with Tarja's HORRIBLE version of a horrible song. So far, she's the winner. Can you outdo that one? Is there something out there that's worse? Is there a cover of a beloved metal classic out there that should have never existed?

So sound off. We need YOU to share with us your choices for the worst of the worst cover:

So here it is: in all it's glory. Feel free to shower off after listening and brush your pearly whites to get the awful taste out of your mouth. Yes, it's that bad.

Tarja Turunen doing a 180 from Nightwish

I *JUST* watched Tarja's newest single, and upcoming track from her new CD What Lies Beneath, called "I Feel Immortal". Wow.

I enjoyed her first solo CD, My Winter Storm, but it wasn't great and it sounded really Nightwishy. This song shows me that she's finally starting to discover who she is as an artist, showing a softer pop side with the operatic vocals we all love. Rob and I have had disagreements in the past about Nightwish, he's Team Tarja and I like them both (Team Switzerland).

Either way, here's the first video, I absolutely love it. I'm not sure it will be well received in the metal community but as far as I'm concerned, it's beeee-utifal.

Watch the video and make your own opinion.