Dancing Queen - Diablo
Posted Mar 9, 2019, 10:32 AM UTC
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Diablo is fine on record, but man their live set sucks.
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Damn really? That's a shame, Icaros was a fantastic record.
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I know, right? I was so hyped to see them a couple years back but their show ended up being a total letdown. They sound and "feel" so much better on album.
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Oh look, another metal band with a zany cover song. This shit is old and tired.
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It can sometimes work; when a band captures or tastefully adapts the feel of a song, some of the covers can be amazing. Avantasia’s cover of ‘Lay All Your Love on Me’ is example of a good metal cover of a pop song (convineitly also ABBA), but my God there are countless “let’s just add down tuned guitars and harsh vocals” piles of poop. Sometimes it’s funny (cf Sodom’s cover of ‘Surfin’ Bird’), but mostly it’s just dumb and forgettable.
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power metal is pretty close to pop music, so it doesn't ever really come off any more cheesy than normal.
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I’d never heard Avantasia until I looked up that song. Seems more appropriate for a power metal band to play pop songs, and doesn’t feel like it was made to be a joke.
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Ty! I love the band. I think the Queen of Entity is best... \m/
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This takes me way back to high school 2008
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I always liked this cover and it works great live, but it is a rather poor ending for the record so laced with negativity and misantrophy. Kind of breaks the illusion. :D
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I never knew ABBA and metal would be such a banging combination
Troldhaugen did it pretty well
Listen to Amberian Dawn
Its been done a billion times. There is probably more material of edgelords thinking they're funny for covering Abba than there is Abba material.
Unluckily for me I’d never come across it before.