All You Need Is Blood

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The world's favorite impersonators of Metallica impersonating the Beatles are back with their second release All You Need Is Blood. This time they've taken "All You Need Is Love" and replaced the lyrics with metal-themed flair to convert lines like "nothing you can see that can't be shown" to "nothin' you can smash that can't be smashed" in a dead-on James Hetfield imitation. The concept gets heavier, as they encapsulate the Fab Four's messages of world unity by performing the same song in 13 different versions: English, Portuguese, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Mexican Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, and South Korean. In order to embark on this lofty mission, the band enlisted the help of international Beatallibangers (code for Beatallica fans) to translate the lyrics into their respective languages and then transcribe the song phonetically so lead singer Jaymz Lennfield would be able to pronounce them accurately. From there, Lennfield and studio engineer Flemball Rasmartin faced the unruly task of trying to fit these rough translations, that were often much longer than the originals, into the spacing of the chord progressions. Also, to clever it up a bit, different instrumental bits were created for each track to replace the French National Anthem that introduced the original version, guitar lines were changed from take to take, and differing snippets of random chatter (babbling something about bloodstained sheets) were pasted on the endings. Of course, this all adds up to a painstaking amount of work dedicated to something that will doubtfully appeal to very many people, even if they're die-hard fans. Good luck listening from start to finish.
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