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Showing posts with label sympathy for the devil cover rolling stones electric hellfire club. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

An Oft-Unheard-of and Even More Frequently Misattributed Cover

Okay, so there's this song, right? And like, it's by The Rolling Stones. It's called Sympathy For The Devil and it's one of the greatest songs ever written. No, seriously. It's amazing. It's a monologue about human history from the point of view of Satan, who claims to have been present but invisible to spur on some of history's most gruesome events. It's been covered a million and a half times, famously by Guns 'n' Roses, Bon Jovi, Tiamat, Jane's Addiction, and many others. However! I can tell you one band that NEVER covered it.

THESE GUYS!
(If you know who this is I love you.)

Even though they never covered Sympathy For The Devil if you use Limewire *shudder* or a similar service to look for them you'll no doubt find a cover of the song labelled as being by them. Why is this? Because the internet makes you stupid. The people actually responsible are...

These guys. This is The Electric Hellfire Club.

They are, according to Wikipedia, "An industrial metal band mixing elements of glam metal, gothic rock, techno, psychedelia, black metal lyrical themes, and experimental noise." This is something I can get behind. I have always been in love with their music, especially their cover of Sympathy For The Devil, which goes a little something like this...