Moratorium: Stop preaching

No more. That's all. Stop, fucking stop.

You are all a bunch of fucking lemmings running headfirst off the cliff, knowing that you're about to become a pile of guts on the canyon floor. You keep on doing the same shit over and over again, expecting it to be awesome, it turns out mediocre, you bitch about nobody noticing you for what creativity you have, and then you about and do it anyway.

Basically, the point I'm trying to get across here is STOP COVERING JUDAS PRIEST SONGS.

We get it. We know. We knew before you were going to tell us. We knew as soon as you picked up a guitar. We knew you're a fan of Judas Priest because you play Heavy Metal, or one of its various subgenres. Judas Priest IS metal personified into a band, and if you play heavy metal, or more specifically traditional metal and guitar oriented power metal while playing Victim of Changes, you're doing nothing to show off your creativity as a band.

The point of a cover is either to take a song from another genre and play it in your own style, adapting it to make it an almost entirely different piece, or to support a fellow band that's just starting out along side you.

Last I checked, your influences were Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motorhead, and you were formed in 2008-WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!

Here, I'll give you good and bad examples of Judas Priest covers. You be the judge,

number 1?

or number 2?

Try again, Better 1?

Or better 2?

And while we're at it, NO COVERS OF COVERS.

Steelwing happens to be one of my favorite Traditional Metal bands out there right now, and they made the asinine decision to not only cover one of the weaker tracks of British Steel, but to cover Green Manalishi, which itself was a cover of a friggin' Fleetwood Mac song! And don't pretend for one minute that they were covering this song for Fleetwood Mac, this is all because of Priest.

You can blame Priest for EVERYTHING

 

Were they thinking that nobody would notice that Priest covered the same song 40 fucking years ago, and that they just so happened to have Steeler on that EP?

So if there's anything I want you to take from this, it's that covering Priest is only going to get you a few cheers at a show, it's not going to make you become Priest as much as we all want it. Want your scene to thrive? introduce people to other bands that either don't get covered often, or don't get the recognition they deserve. Cover Brocas Helm if you play Thrash, try your hand at Cathedral if you play Death, Skyclad if you're Prog, I don't care.

Hell, here's a compromise, if you're going to cover Judas Priest, don't cover a song if it's been released on Painkiller, or any album released before. Have you fucking heard Jugulator? It's a fucking masterpiece. Are you a keyboard laden Power Metal band? Go fucking nuts on Nostradamus. And Angel of Retribution has some of the most fucking awesome riffs that should be played by a thrash or doom metal band.

Honestly, I feel like it's just laziness when you people want to play a cover along with your original songs. You want approval from your audience and as soon as they hear the riff to
Breaking the Law, you'll hear it. But if you're playing Metal, fuck, if you're making music for someone else's approval, you're already doing it for the wrong reasons.