EP Review

Butcher Babies - UncoveredButcher Babies – Uncovered

After blasting onto the music scene back in 2010 the Butcher Babies finally released their debut studio album ‘Goliath’ back in July 2013 and the album was one hell of an explosive offering which we totally loved at Alternative Vision and now the band are gearing up to release a covers EP titled ‘Uncovered’ and it features the band cover 5 classic songs from 5 different artists within the rock music scene and you have to hand it to the Butcher babies for the fact that they have managed to create a truly diverse sounding EP within the tracks they have chose to cover.

The great thing about ‘Uncovered’ is that all 5 members of the Butcher Babies chose a track and the likes of ZZ Top’s ‘Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers’, ‘The Osmond’s ‘Crazy Horses’, Napoleon XIV ‘The’re Coming To Take Me Away’ ‘Suicidal Tendencies ‘Don’t Give A Fuck’ and S.O.D’s ‘Pussy Whipped’ and just by knowing who all those artists are you start to realise how well thought out ‘Uncovered’ has been.

Things kick off with a cover of the classic ZZ Top song ‘Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers’ and it is bloody epic everything it turned up a couple of extra notches sound wise and vocally the chants of “Beer drinks and hell raisers” is massive and so are the duel lead vocals from Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey as they battle it out with each other.

‘There’re Coming To take Me Away’ is a cover of a song which was originally released in 1966 and somehow reached number 4 in the UK singles chart and I have to say I have never heard of the song before so checked it out on You Tube before listening to the butcher Babies version and I feel that everyone should go and check it out as it oddly sounds like something that Fat Les would do and happens to be the weirdest song ever, however the Butcher Babies have totally reworked the song and made it their own and totally full of metal madness and heavy epicness.

Over the years I have heard various different bands cover songs from the Suicidal Tendencies back catalogue and it’s a pleasure to hear the Butcher Babies cover their song ‘Don’t Give A Fuck’ the is so close to the original but more raw, more heavy and full of attitude.

The next cover is a cover of the classic Osmonds song ‘Crazy Horses’ and the original song on its own is epic and a song that pretty much everyone who has heard it loves and loves to sing-a-long to and I would imagine that fans of the original would show major disproval of this cover if they heard the song but let’s face how many proper hardcore fans of the original are going to be searching for music by the Butcher Babies, and if they do find it they will be treated to a pleasantly heavy cover with some epic guitar work which is full of distortion and special effects.

The last track on the EP is the cover of S.O.D’s ‘Pussy Whipped’ and it is a heavy blast of energy which is executed at such speed, seriously the speed of this song is insane and stays so true to the original as the Butcher Babies smash their way through the song with such passion.

Overall ‘Uncovered’ has been a great release from the Butcher Babies not only does it show what bands and songs they like to listen to in their spare time and what a diverse music taste they have it also shows their creativity when it comes to taking a classic song and making it their own and in true Butcher Babies style the heaviness, speed and raw sounds that their fans have come to expect from the band are fully in place.

4/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Heidi Shepherd
Carla Harvey
Henry Flury
Jason Klein
Chrissy Warner
 Track Listing

1. Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
2.They’re Coming to Take Me Away
3. Don’t Give a Fuck
4. Crazy Horses
5.Pussy Whipped

 Band Related Links
Butcher Babies Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?