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42.37 (10)


Cool songs: They’re all classics on the original album. On this they have been DISHONORED!!
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Are these guys for real? I’m actually tempted to stop with this review right now such is my disgust at SFU’s blatant attention grabbing exercise with Graveyard Classics II. This is all too painful.

Not content with contaminating the listening world with some horrendous cover versions on GYC I, Chris Barnes and his cronies thought it would be a good laugh to continue the exercise. But wait…rather than pick another selection of old individual classic, they’ve decided to record in its entirety, AC/DC’s ‘Back in Black’. Yep, ‘Hells Bells’ through to ‘Noise Pollution’, SFU run through the whole 1980 classic in their own fucked up style. You think they’re going to catch some hell for this? Darn right they are!!

In my mind, there is no question that Chris Barnes knows exactly what he is doing with GYC II. He knows he’ll cop the wrath of 99% of the metal media for this exercise in stupidity, but true to form, Barnes doesn’t give a toss. He thinks it’s all a bit of a laugh. He’d ask us not to take it all so seriously, lighten up and listen to GYC II for what it is – four guys doing death metal versions of one of the all time classic heavy rock albums. At a stretch I can tolerate that. The thing I can’t fathom is the absolute arrogance SFU display in attempting this stunt (and that’s all it is, a stunt!) in the first place. Sure, a cover version tacked on the end of an original album is great for novelty value, but a whole version of ONE album? Moreover, not only asking their Metal Blade to financially back them on it, but also asking their fan base to fork out their hard earned further escalates the superciliousness of the scheme.

If you’ve never rated cover versions anything more than novelty value, GYC II won’t endear you any further. SFU are a bog standard, lowest common denominator death metal band – quite why they believe in their ability to pull off hard rock cover versions is beyond me. GYC 1 should have been the end of their little experiment. It wasn’t done well then, and it certainly hasn’t improved on GYC II. Furthermore, quite why anyone would actually BUY this disc in favor of actually pulling out the original copy of ‘Back in Black’ (cos’ everyone’s got it) is another perplexing question that has me quivering in fear.

GYC II is thoroughly pointless. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to amuse the band themselves. They have trashed one of the all time classic metal albums from start to finish on this disc basically for their own enjoyment. It’s dull and lifeless, displaying none of the energy and vigor of the original album. What’s more, with Barnes out front it is vocally desecrated. GYC II is a joke gone too far, a tasteless exercise in sheer arrogance and self-importance. SFU may hold AC/DC in high regard, but it has done nothing for their reputation. If they ever had one, it is now in absolute tatters. Shocking!

PS: Having read this, please do everything you can to hear some of this album. You need to know how bad it actually is. BUT PLEASE, DO NOT PAY A CENT IN THE PROCESS!!

note: 0/10

Tracklist

1.Hells Bells
2.Shoot to Thrill
3.What do you do for money honey
4.Givin’ the dog a bone
5.Let me put my love into you
6. Back in Black
7.You Shook me all night long
8.Have a drink on me
9.Shake a leg
10.Rock and Roll ain’t noise pollution