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Reggie’s Top 25 Favorite Cover Songs – #4 Lack of Comprehension
Lack of Comprehension is the song that got me to Death…the band, not the thing we all have in common. Up to that point, I thought Death Metal was a bit complex and I just wasn’t quite there yet as a metalhead. It was a bit extreme for my fragile little mind. Then I came across Human which had much more of a melodic touch than other Death Metal bands I sampled at the time. The whole Human album, actually, I thought was hard-driving, melodic, and was single-handedly responsible for all of my future endeavors in Death Metal music. This influential band released some amazing music and paved the way for the genre as a whole. I still spin Human quite regularly.
Norway’s Susperia, recorded their cover version of Lack of Comprehension in 2005. You can find it on their EP Devil May Care which also has covers from WASP and A-ha. Susperia hasn’t released a studio album since 2009, but they have released another EP, Nothing Remains, in 2011. That EP features a song that the band tried to use to get on the Eurovision Song Contest, but lost before being able to win their home country and move on to the big show.
Here is the cover of Lack of Comprehension found on the EP Devil May Care.
And, here is the awesome track from Death. You can find this song on the album Human released in 1991.
Album Review – Susperia – We Are The Ones
Norway’s Susperia is one of those bands you might not have heard of. They started creating music along the lines of black/thrash. It’s an interesting blend to say the least. The two original founding members (not together) were once part of Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon. The rest of Susperia’s music is a bit thrash, symphonic, and a little death all wrapped up into an eclectic mix, however leaving the “black” mostly behind and moving over to more “power” metal.
Their latest album, We Are The Ones, is not a new studio album, but a collaboration of older works, orchestral versions of Susperia music, and two new songs. One of the new songs, Nothing Remains, is currently in the running as Norway’s entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. I hope to see them rocking out Eurovision next year. The contest needs some quality metal to balance out the pop from other parts of Europe.
