My acoustic cover of “Zombie Apocalypse” by Mortician - one of the heaviest brutal death metal/goregrind bands in the history.
The original song was released in 1998 on the album “Zombie Apocalypse”, published by Relapse Records. In my opinion, it’…
My acoustic cover of “Zombie Apocalypse” by Mortician - one of the heaviest brutal death metal/goregrind bands in the history.
The original song was released in 1998 on the album “Zombie Apocalypse”, published by Relapse Records. In my opinion, it’s the most memorable song of Mortician, because of the catchy riff that sounds extremely primitive, bulky, stupid and superheavy.
I tried to get close to this level of heaviness, and used dissonant chords here, as I often do, instead of simply playing with perfect fifths, as most metal bands usually do. But i think I lost to Mortician because of my tuning: I play in D, while Mortician play in A if I remember correctly. Also, I don’t use distortion and drums, of course. But still, it’s probably the heaviest acoustic death metal cover song I’ve made so far.
In the video I’m showing my damaged thumb - this happened while recording the audio. But it was worth it, as the part where I’m playing the riff in a fingerstyle manner, has an interesting muffled bulky heavy sound. Unfortunately, you can’t play this way for too long, even one complete song, as the skin goes off the thumb very quickly, and it hurts. Unless you are a living dead guitarist metalhead who doesn’t feel pain.
In the scenes of this music video, where I’m watching films, the films were French horrors: “The Grapes of Death” (Les raisins de la mort) and 1978 and “The Living Dead Girl” (La morte vivante), 1982. Both are the works of my favorite director Jean Rollin, who filmed a few exploitation zombie-living dead films apart from a number of movies about pretty female vampires.
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