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10 bands who actually started their career covering other artists
Picturing our favorite bands in their fledgling stages is no easy task. But imagining them devoid of any original music and instead performing cover songs? That’s straight-up impossible. Remarkably, it’s not all that rare for now-iconic artists to reveal that they’d formerly performed as a tribute act. After all, what better way to get a […]
Fast food-themed Black Sabbath cover band release first recorded single
Yes—you read that right. A fast food-themed Black Sabbath cover band exists, and they're fittingly called Mac Sabbath. They just released their first recorded single, “Pair-A-Buns,” and it comes with its very own coloring activity book. Read more: A Japanese grindcore band started the new trend of “cockroach moshing” Mac Sabbath are beginning a co-headlining […]
Miss May I were once an emo cover band
In this awesome episode of Amoeba Music's What’s In My Bag?, Miss May I frontman Levi Benton picks up releases from Underoath, As I Lay Dying and others, and discusses how they have impacted his band. He first talks about Underoath and their 777 DVD, saying, “This was the first band that had screaming that got […]
The McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath cover band are real
Yup. Mac Sabbath are an LA-based band with “demonic versions of Ronald McDonald on vocals, Mayor McCheese on lead guitar, Grimace on bass, and the Hamburgler on drums,” according to the Daily Dot. On their Facebook page, the band describe themselves as “Ronald Osbourne and the whole gang in full regalia playing all their hits like […]
AP Totally Nailed It in 2011 When They Put This Band On The Cover
AP Totally Nailed It in 2011 When They Put… Black Veil Brides On The Cover (#273.1) Vocalist Andy Biersack says: “It’s an honor to be on the cover, and I have every magazine cover I’ve been on framed in the hallway leading to the bathroom in my house, so it’s impossible for visitors to avoid […]
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