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Friday Morning Metal – 8-Bit Style

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Powerglove, CarboHydroM, and the Minibosses are great bands that do metal/hard rock covers of 8-bit and 16-bit video game songs. Excite Bike, for instance. Or Contra. Well yesterday I stumbled into a terrific rabbit hole of 8-bit covers of metal songs. And now I want to play the video games that would have these songs, because I bet they’d be next to impossible (Hi Contra without the Konami code) and totally kickass.

Dethklok – Thunderhorse. Great boss fight music, like if the boss was in a helicopter or something and you were commandos shooting rockets and lasers at it.

Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark. This one starts off slow, like an intro to a Castlevania almost.

Judas Priest – Painkiller. Double kick totally sounds like helicopter noises. They don’t even attempt to recreate Halford’s vocals, I don’t think 8-bit has a “Metal God” tone I guess.

Dragonforce – Through the Fire and Flames. All these songs would be kickass final battle songs.

Friday Morning Metal – IRON MAIDEN

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Hey so Monday Iron Maiden are playing White River Amphitheater in Auburn. So I figured you should get as much Maiden as you can. Because, seriously, Iron Maiden.

The Trooper. Probably one of the first Iron Maiden songs I ever heard, thanks to Carmageddon II.

Run to the Hills.

Wildest Dreams. With some funky creepy CG work.

Flight of Icarus. Kinda has a Dio-like Intro. Also he flies. On his way. Like an eagle. Flying as high. As the sun.

Be Quick or Be Dead. Another kickass track I heard while piling into cars in Carmageddon II.

Two Minutes to Midnight.

Aces High. If you hear the Churchill lead in live and don’t get goosebumps, they’ll take your ticket and send you home.

Fear of the Dark. First time I saw them live was the Flight 666 tour. It’s eerie hearing the crowd this locked in. But you’ll be hard pressed to hear another band draw this out of 30,000+ fans.

The Number of the Beast. Because let him who have understanding reckon the number of the beast.

The Wicker Man. Bees? Not the bees!

Wasted Years. They realize they’re living in the golden years.

Can I Play with Madness. When you hear it live it sounds like they yell “Can I play with Agnes?”

Friday Morning Metal – Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark

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Granted, I haven’t seen a lot of metal shows in my life, but I’ve never seen a band command a crowd like Iron Maiden can. 35,000 crazy ass metalheads freaking out, and once they hear the opening riff to Fear of the Dark, they all settle down and sing along.

Best comment on the video:
“My GF says that IRON MAIDEN is so fucking old. And i answer to her: Well your mom is so fucking old too and you still listen to her”