Various Artist ‎– A Tribute To The Beast (2002)

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Title: A Tribute To The Beast
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Metal
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 01:16:44
Total Size: 187/604 Mb
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Various Artist ‎– A Tribute To The Beast (2002)


Tracklist:

01. Steel Prophet - The Ides Of March / Purgatory
02. Children Of Bodom - Aces High
03. Rage - The Trooper
04. Cradle Of Filth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
05. Grave Digger - Running Free
06. Burden Of Grief - Prowler
07. Sonata Arctica - Die With Your Boots On
08. Therion - Children Of The Damned
09. Iced Earth - Transylvania (Instr.)
10. Opeth - Remember Tomorrow
11. Sinergy - The Number Of The Beast
12. Disbelief - Stranger In A Strange Land
13. Tierra Santa - Flight Of Icarus
14. Dark Tranquillity - 22 Acacia Avenue
15. Six Feet Under - Wrathchild
16. Darkane - Powerslave

While the idea of new generations of metalheads giving a sneering nod to the legendary Iron Maiden is a welcome gesture, a tribute record to the band will undoubtedly fall short unless some clever and engaging arrangements of the songs are considered. Tribute to the Beast proves this point rather immediately with lackluster performances by bands vomiting out terribly uninspired versions of several Iron Maiden classics. Most bands on this collection musically stick to the songs on a perfect note-by-note remembrance of middle-school days listening to Powerslave and practicing along to "How to Play Guitar" videos, which creates an insipid bed of music for vocalists with no range choking a garbled half-scream. The problem with this is that it sounds as though sterilized versions of Maiden's master tapes were used for the backing tracks and Bruce Dickenson's powerful vocals were replaced with muddled, unmelodic guttural noise destroying the greatness of what Maiden was all аbout: a truly innovative, powerful, and melodic band.