I dont know if it has been done before, but fuck it, do it again
What are your favorite, or most well done, cover songs you've heard?
Mine:

In flames-world of promises
Norther-whichever offspring song it was
Estuary of calamity-a mansion in darkness
Cradle of filth-hallowed be thy name, sleeples... (most of their covers)
Graveworm-fear of the dark
Dimmu borgir-metal heart
COB-aces high


naming the band who wrote it isnt necessary, but go ahead if you like.

bands name in (..) originally wrote the song


death-pain killer (judas priest)

dimmu-burn in hell (twisted sister)

darkfuneral- dead skin mask, the make their own solos for it which are WAY better then slayers solos for it(slayer)

and if the sound qulity was a bit better

emperor- a fine day to die (bathory)

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death-god of thunder

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any Children of Bodom cover
Cradle of Filth - Fear of the Dark
Dark Tranquility - 22 Acacia Avenue
Death - PainKiller
Megadeth - These Boots
Pantera - Planet Caravan
Racer X - Children of the Grave
anything off Graveyard Classics
Slayer - Guilty of Being White
Slayer - Memories of tommorrow
Nile - Ramses Bringer of War

i know im forgetting alot

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shadows fall - welcome to the machine (pink floyd)
pantera - paranoid, planet caravan (black sabbath)

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Cryptic Wintermoon - Nightcrawler (Judas Priest)
Siebenburgen - Jawbreaker (Judas Priest)
The Crown - Burnin Leather (Bathory)
Decapitated - Mandatory Suicide (Slayer)
Crematory - One (Metallica)
Children of Bodom - Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
Graveworm - Fear of the Dark (Maiden)
Children of Bodom - The Final Countdown (Every version i have heard skips at the second chorus)

And there is a hell of alot more but i can't be bothered to remeber them.

Monstrosity - Angel of Death (slayer)
Morbid Angel - Troops of Doom (sepultura)
Pantera - Planet Caravan (black sabbath)
Megadeth - Paranoid (black sabbath)
Sepultura - Orgasmatron (motorhead)
Krisiun - In League with Satan (venom)

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i heard a decent cover of angel of death by fear factory it was at a live show that i think someone taped but the quality wasnt that bad

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Dark Angel-Creeping Death
Death Angel-Trapped Under Ice
Voivod-Chemical Warfare
Anthrax-Got the Time
Anthrax-Phantom Lord
Megadeth-These Boots
Metallica-Am I Evil?
Sodom-Surfin Bird
Blind Guardain-Spread Your Wings
Slayer-I Hate You
Corrosion of Conformity-Redemption City
Sepultura-Orgasmatron
Therion-Summmernight City
Exodus-Low Rider
Exodus-Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Overkill-Frankenstein
Overkill-Hole in the Sky
Overkill-Fuck You
Testament-Nobody's Fault
Nevermore-The Sound of Silence
Iced Earth-Screaming fo Vengance
Iced Earth-Highway to Hell

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who orignially did got the time? i didnt know that was a cover

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Megadeth- No more Mr. Niceguy
Testament- Nobodys Fault
Pantera-Planet Caravan
Death- Painkiller
Sixfeetunder- Smoke on the Water

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Iced Earth - Electric Funeral(black sabbath)
Cradle Of Filth - Fear of the dark(Iron maiden)
Norther - Final Countdown(europe)
Manowar - Nessun dorma(?)

BEST Covers-
Megadeth- School's Out (Alice Cooper)
Megadeth- No More Mr. Nice Guy (Alice Cooper)
Cannibal Corpse- No Remorse (Metallica)
Malevolent Creation- Perish in Flames (Dark Angel)
Monstrosity- Angel of Death (Slayer)
Decapitated- Mandatory Suicide (Slayer)
Emperor- Funeral Fog (Mayhem)
Emperor- A Fine Day to Die (Bathory)
Anthrax- Remember Tomorrow (Iron Maiden)
Mercyful Fate- The Ripper (Judas Priest)
Vader- Silent Scream (Slayer)
Vader- Raining Blood (Slayer)
Vader- Flag of Hate (Kreator)
Vader- Merciless Death (Dark Angel)

WORST Covers
Cannibal Corpse- The Exorcist (Possessed)
Cannibal Corpse- Confessions (Possessed)
Nuclear Assault- Good Times, Bad Times (Led Zeppelin)
Dark Angel- Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
Slayer- Dissident Aggressor (Judas Priest)
Emperor- Gypsy (Mercyful Fate)
Exodus- Low Rider (War)

THOUGHTS
People should stop trying to cover Led Zeppelin, as they always fail. People should focus on covering Iron Maiden and Slayer, as they always succeed. Megadeth and Vader can do no wrong with covers. Cannibal Corpse should stop covering Possessed. What few Dark Angel covers there have been were all good.

Joe Jackson.

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Anal Cunt - Unbelievable!

your unbelivable, du,dun dun dun, dun dun dun,

and ofcourse cat scratch fever by pantera (and motorhead, but pantera's version is better)

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Staying alive. Oi! version

In Flames - World of Promises (The fucking intro asdlkfhaslkdjhfklajsnckjasnkj)
Children of Bodom - Rebel Yell
Slayer - Ina gadda da vida

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Impaled - Carneous Cacoffiny
Regurgitate - Genetal Grinder
Disgorge (Mex) - Hepatic Tissue Fermentation


i have a carcass tribute cd

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Sodom - Iron Fist (Motorhead)

Aborted did a pretty good version of Carnal Forge by Carcass. I think everybody is forgetting the best cover song of all time:

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (originally by Bob Dylan)

Even Dylan himself adopted the Hendrix version when playing it live.

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It's one of the best for sure.
This and Sepultura's Orgasmatron are probably
the best covers I've heard.
On the other hand the worst ones must be the ones
from Dark Funeral(they are too evil for my liking).

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Emperor - Any cover (Mayhem, Bathory, Mercyful Fate), they are damn good to make cover songs.
Nokturnal Mortum - My Journey to the Stars (Burzum)
Vader - Freezing Moon (Mayhem)
Dissection - Elisabeth Bathory (Tormentor)
Hypocrisy - Black Magic (Slayer)

In no order:

Evergreen Terrace - Maniac (that 1980's dance movie theme song)
Graveworm - Christian Woman (Type O Negative)
Type O Negative - Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Exhumed - Sodomy and Lust (Sodom)
Dying Fetus - Born in a Casket (Cannibal Corpse)
Pist.On - Shoplifters of the World Unite (The Smiths)
Dark Funeral - Dead Skin Mask (Slayer)
Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Newman)
The Agony Scene - Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)

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cannibal corpse's rendition of no remorse, (originally by metallica) . i recently tabbed it. great song.

and Vader's cover of immortal rites (morbid angel) was also really good i thought.

Exhumed-Sodomy and Lust (Sodom)
Exhumed-Death Metal(Posessed)
Impaled-Tourette's(Nirvana)
Cradle of Filth-Hallowed By Thy Name(Iron Maidan)
Cradle of Filth-Death Comes Ripping(The Misfits)
Six Feet Under-War Machine(Kiss)
Six Feet Under-In League With Satan(Venom)
Six Feet Under-Sweat Leaf(Black Sabbath)
Dimmu Borgir-Burn In Hell(Twisted Sister)
Monstrosity-Angel of Death(Slayer)
Cannibal Corpse-No Remorse(Metallica)

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Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Children of Bodom - The Trooper (Iron Madien)
Cannibal Corpse - No Remorse (Metallica)
Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)

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meh.. they didnt play the whole song, and eventually it turned into a sloppy version of walk.

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Dark Funerl - The Trial (King Diamond)

The solos they add to this song are fucking insane, i just had to mention it.

CoF - hallowed(maiden), for those who died(does anyone know who originally did this)
Shadows Fall - welcome to the machine (Pink Floyd)
Deadsy - just like heaven (the cure)
Type O Negative - summer breeze

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It's a Bathory cover.

I think cannibal corpse did a pretty great work in confessions and The Exorcist!!

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Forgot to mention, Carpathian Forest's A Forest (The Cure cover). The cover is WAY better than the original.

holy shit you actually LIKED the exodus version of low rider????

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COB - aces high
Arch Enemy - aces high
in flames - eye of the beholder
COB - repent
COB - the trooper

COB is a good cover band for iron maiden + all their amazing original stuff

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CoB's maiden covers suck complete dick

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what are you talking about! aces high is the most amazing cover i have heard you forum leaders do a lot of crack

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No Particular Order

Nuclear Assault - Good Times Bad Times
Dying Fetus - Born in a Casket
Vader - Raining Blood
Pantera - Hole in the Sky, Cat Scratch Fever

whaha, jezus, it freakin sucks man. you should listen to the Arch Enemy one, it completly owns your mama

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not the version i heard, the one i heard they actually had tom araya come out and sing with them

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I have a version of Fear Factory - Angel Of Death (Slayer Cover) and it is the one where Tom Araya comes out. I have to say the cover blows its played rather sloppy and whoever recorded it must have don't it on a hlaf assed tape recorder from the back of the show cause it shound distant and really shitty.

Oh and i'll say again Dark Funeral - The Trial (King Diamond) is an amazing fucking cover!!

actually, i did my homework last nite, turns out that it was done by a group called sabbat, an english thrash band, its off their first album, History Of A Time To Come, put out in 1988.this makes sense now, considering that the full name of the CoF cover is "For Those Who Died (Return To The Sabbat Mix)
the song you were thinking of is "For All Those Who Died"

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planet caravan - pantera (black sabbath)
all along the watchtower - jimi hendrix (bob dylan)
voodoo chile - stevie ray vaughn (jimi hendrix)
children of the grave - white zombie (black sabbath)
little wing - stevie ray vaughn (jimi hendrix)
I shot the sheriff - eric clapton (bob marley)
paranoid - mega deth (sabbath)
electric funeral - pantera (sabbath)
after midnight - eric clapton (jj cale)
cocaine - eric clapton (jj cale)
heart of gold - black label society (neil young)
with a little help from my friends - joe cocker (the beatles)
like a rolling stone -jimi hendrix (bob dylan)
apocalyptica -many (metallica)
how I can just kill a man - ratm (cypress hill)

that's all i can think of currently

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CoB - the final countdown(europe)
Metallica - whiskey in the jar(thin lizzy)

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i dont think anyone has said the Megadeath Cover of Anarchy In The UK, which isnt all that bad

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Yes, you are right, I never heard the cover before and I misread what he printed. BTW, the Megadeth cover of "Anarchy in the UK" blows ass and I skip it every time I listen to that CD. I'd rather eviscerate myself and take pictures of my innards as I bleed to death than ever listen to that abomination again.

Also Sodom- Iron Fist

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good cover.

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My favorites are :

Voivod - Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
Graveworm - Losing my Religion ( R.E.M.)
Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
Dimmu Borgir - Metalheart (Accept)
Sepultura - Orgasmatron (Motorhead)
Metallica - Last Caress/Green Hell (Misfits)

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the fear factory cover of cars is pretty good

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Well Said!

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The other day my friends friend said he heard this cover. So what i said to him: "cradle of filth doesnt cover that song, graveworm does. I have the cd(scourge of malice)." I could be wrong, but i doubt it. Apparently this is being confused more than it should, i searched just now to see if cradle of filth had possibly covered this song as well, the first result was a forum topic asking that question. Turns out they came to the conclusion that CoF covered it. And i didnt feel like singing up there to tell them. Anyway wheres the confusion? the vocals are completely different, that should hint something. Good song though.

Children of Bodom-She is Beautiful(andrew W.K) (its off of the new cob ep/single that is coming out soon)
Dark Tranquillity-My friend of Misery(metallica)
Vader-Raining Blood(Slayer)
Metallica-Am I Evil?(Diamond Head)
Emperor-Cromlech(darkthrone)
Norther-Final Countdown(Europe)
At The Gates-Legion(Slaughterlord)
Arch Enemy-Aces High(Iron Maiden)
Marduk-Paint it black(Rolling Stones)
Satyricon-I Got Erection(Turbonegro)
Cannibal Corpse-No Remorse(metallica)

hmm i think thats about all i can remember for the time being

Man that is sooooo cheesy!



Yes!

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i was just listening to Exhumed's cover of material girl

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yes the original is cheesy but the cover is amazing

acoustic mayhem - Ace of Spades (motorhead)

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You don't think the cover is cheesy, either? I heard it emanating from my brother's room and I laughed so hard that my testicles were drawn back into my body due to the ensuing vacuum created from my inability to breathe.

Anyway, has anybody mentioned At The Gates' cover of Captor Of Sin by Slayer? I love this version more than the original.

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well ill give it to you even the cover is starting to get cheesy i listened to it a few times yesterday and now i dont like it much anymore
as for captor of sin i was gunna mention that but then i remembered at the gates' amazing cover of legion so i mentioned that instead

Yeh.. they managed to play the shitty solo just as shitty!!

I fucking hate that song, the original and cover.

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I'll concede that their cover of Legion is much better.

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Disavowed - Funeral Inception! =)

Agalloch does a cover of "Kneel to the Cross" that fucking kills the original version by Sol Invictus.

Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)
CoF - Hallowed be thy Name (Iron Maiden)
Cannibal Corpse - No Remorse (Metallica)
Slayer - In a Gadda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly)
Malevolent Creation - Piece By Piece (Slayer)
Metallica - Helpless (Diamond Head)
Metallica - The Prince (Diamond Head)
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Metallica - The Mercyful fate medley (BRILLIANT)
Dark Funeral - Equimanthorn and Call From the Grave (Bathory)
Do I even need to SAY "All along the watchtowers?"

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Metallica's 'Tuesday's Gone'? You're nuts. Not a Skynyrd fan, I take it. That's the most fucking ridiculous thing I've ever read. The rest of the picks are fine, but, Jesus H. Christ, are you nuts? Have you heard the original? Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

Since no one else will say it:

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing

And if someone else did say it, fuck you.

children of bodom didn't cover that song but norther did, they are band similar to cob

I never said it was better than the original. The original blows anything metallica has ever DONE out of the water.

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I said it already.
so fuck you

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Wasn't this a live cover? Maybe I'm wrong, I don't own any Disavowed CD's. I like it, but they play a couple of the riffs wrong, which always seems to irritate me on covers.

If someone was going to say it, it was you. I knew it as I posted. Bastard.

And I didn't say anything about the Tuesday's Gone cover being better than the original. I'm saying that the only excuse you could possibly have for saying it's a good cover is complete and utter ignorance of the original. And almost complete deafness. And syphilis-induced madness. And other things as well. Metallica butchered a classic and decided to throw it on with good covers of other classics. Bastards.

Also, Maiden did a good Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Corrosion of Conformity did a good Lord of this World, and I've apparently lost Masters of Reality. Motherfuck.

Yes, either that or you could be completely wrong. Cunt.

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Aww, should I edit my post?

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Especially on a Suffocation song. The worst thing you could possibly do is get the riffs wrong.

I'll have to go with Gorgoroth - Slottet I det Fjerne (although the original Darkthrone version is at least as cool as this cover)

The Forsaken - Blackened

Not really, it just seems to annoy me a little bit for whatever reason. Personally, when I play other bands' material, I usually take creative liberties, unless I am playing along with the original. If you were being sarcastic, however, point taken.

Kreator - Grinder (Judas Priest)
Sepultura - Piranha
Six Feet Under - Piranha (Exodus)
Malevolent Creation - Piece by Piece (Slayer)
Seaweed - Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac)

did anyone else like these covers?

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It was an OK cover. It was shitty because of the quality of the recording. If it were done in a studio, it probably would've been much better.

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Megadeth - Paranoid (Black Sabbath)

I don't know if that was said but it is such a great cover.

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Ancient Ceremony - Creeping Death.. pretty good black metal take on the song.

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My new grind band A Beautiful Corpse just cut a 5 song demo. We do covers Drags The Waters by Pantera and Pet Cemetery by The Ramones.

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favorite covers:

pantera - electric funeral, hole in the sky, cat scratch fever
type o negative - NIB, aqualung, hand of doom, into the void, summer breeze, cinnamon girl, hey pete (hey joe)
sentenced - white wedding
moonspell - mr crowley
Black label society - snowblind, no more tears
soil - thunderkiss 65
sonata arctica - still loving you, wind beneath my wings(i couldn't stop laughing)
machine head - negative creep
lullacry - head like a hole
slayer - born to be wild, inna gadda da vida
and fucking flame me i don't care
metallica - turn the page, whiskey in the jar

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i agree with that one.

Dont know if anyone has posted this yet but:

Decapitated - Mandatory Suicide.

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Cannibal Corpse - No Remorse (Metallica)
Children of Bodom - The Final Countdown (Europe)
Children of Bodom - Silent Scream (Slayer)
Children of Bodom - The Trooper

agreed

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Testament - Seek and Destroy
CoB - Aces High -Good cover, but why did Alexi even bother with the vocals?

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haha, my view on this cover has been, "they didnt even come close". its good yeah, but they didnt touch the original, IMO.

Didnt Arch Enemy do that? or did Arch Enemy also cover that song?

did anyone else like
Children of Bodom - Mass Hypnosis (Sepultura)

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They both did a cover AFAIK. I've heard the CoB cover (obviously) but not the Archenemy one.

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I have not heard the arch enemy one either. i found it kind of dumb when i heard they both covered it though. no big deal, but still.

The Arch Enemy one is alright, but nothing mind blowing.

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No. Both of those Exodus covers are pretty fucking terrible. Then again, there are better Exodus songs, as well as better bands to cover them. Six Feet Under are a cover band though.

New Sepultura blows.

Someone should cover Fabulous Disaster or 'Till Death Do Us Part.

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those covers were ok. I liked how they did The Wait and The Prince.

I thought their covers of the Motorhead songs and Misfits songs weren't that good.

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The misfits - monster mash cover is a good high song.

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Arch Enemy - Kill With Power (Manowar)

Dream Theater playing Master of Puppets live (amazing)

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

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sentenced-trooper

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jonny cash - hurt
rolf harris - stairway to heaven.

hallowed be thy name was ruined by cradle of filth.
as is every version of little wing not done by hendrix

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darkfuneral- dead skin mask, the make their own solos for it which are WAY better then slayers solos for it(slayer)

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SLAYER SOLOS ARE ALWAYS SUPERIOR!!!!

No. No they aren't.

Don't get me wrong, I am not a Darkthrone fan by any means, but Slayer, with few major acceptions, (Seasons in the Abyss comes to mind) have some horrible solos.

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