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Finnforest View Drop Down

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Topic: Rush "Subdivisions" cover-Allegaeon
Posted: August 23 2016 at 20:19

By the band Allegaeon. Like it?

Edited by Finnforest - August 23 2016 at 20:26

...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"

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Posted: August 23 2016 at 20:46

It sounds too close to the original for me. I can't stand the original now. Canadian radio killed that song for me as well as these songs:

Closer To The Heart
The Spirit Of Radio
Limelight
Freewill
Time Stand Still

I don't ever, ever want to hear those songs again in my entire life ever again. Ever.

I like these covers better:

Magma America Great Make Again

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Posted: August 23 2016 at 23:35

Finnforest wrote:

By the band Allegaeon. Like it?

Not for me. The drums are annoying and predictable and unsuitable for the rest of the arrangement which sounds quite close to the original. Death metal drumming for the sake of it over a melodic Rush song. Can't see what they were trying to do really apart from prove they could cover a Rush song.

Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!

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Posted: August 23 2016 at 23:50

It's absurd and I kinda like it (and I hate viking rock Big smile

), though the beginning sounds like Conan music -

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Posted: August 24 2016 at 02:15

These drummers are going to find themselves having problems later in life. Of course most of these bands with the intense double bass drumming are young so we have yet to see a 'twilight of the gods' occur, but I submit they will struggle later in their careers - just ask Neil himself who's got arthritis himself (apparently).

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Posted: January 05 2018 at 10:29

Allegaeon have returned with a cover of Animate.

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Allegaeon launches cover of Rush's "Animate" on all digital music services

During the recording sessions for Proponent for Sentience, Denver, CO's Allegaeon recorded two Rush covers. Fans have already heard "Subdivisions", which was included on the album and has since become the band's most streamed track on Spotify. Today, in celebration of January 6, 2018, the date version of the band's song 1.618, Allegaeon is releasing their cover of "Animate" worldwide on all digital music services. Listen to the song and stream/download from your preferred provider here: smarturl.it/allegaeon-animate

Guitarist Greg Burgess elaborates: "When we settled on Rush to cover during the 'Proponent' sessions, I simply couldn't pick which song to do. 'Subdivisions' or 'Animate.' Both were favorites for me personally, and both were sort of 'under the radar' eg. not 'Tom Sawyer' or 'Spirit of the Radio.' Where the original idea was to do a cover for a Japanese bonus track, we figured if we did both we could cover a special song for both the Japan AND Europe pressing. Then the powers that be decided to just include 'Subdivisions' on the album, and keep 'Animate' in reserve for something. Jan 6th, 2018 is the only occurrence of the golden ratio in date form that will occur during our life time. So 1.6.18 seemed like the perfect date to release it in Allegaeon fashion."

Proponent for Sentience was released in September of 2016. The album was produced by Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation) and is a complex, intelligent, and absorbing concept record that can rightfully sit alongside the true greats of the medium. Allegaeon will begin recording their fifth full-length album with Otero at Flatline Audio in March.

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