Actually Tales of Glory Island at least is such a good song. Thank you, shuffle, for letting me hear it once again yesterday. Still my Axxis favorite is White Lights from the album Back to the Kingdom.
My thing against Axxis must be the singer. I never liked his voice. It's original but it isn't interesting. Their music mostly isn't that good either. They're basic as hell.
Anyway, recently I listened to the Led Zeppelin tribute album The Music Remains the Same. There's Axxis giving a go for Good Times Bad Times. I actually think they made a good job with it. The singer didn't use his irritating voice but kind of imitated Plant instead. It worked. He was good. The whole band was at its best on that cover.
That album, buy the way, has many ups and downs. Groups called Tierra Santa and Consortium Project are horrible. Masterplan's Black Dog rules (it's unbelievable how dimensional guy Jorn Lande is - he can cover Stargazer too! I like that Mundanus Imperum project anyway). Also post-Matos Angra version of Kashmir is pretty good while Primal Fear and even Mägo de Oz themselves are letdowns.
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Blaze is surprisingly good in Dazed and Confused. Elegy and White Skull are meh, although that's a hell of an effort for WS considering they interpreted Stairway. The most positive surprise for me in the album is Doro - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You out of her is remarkable to say the least! And, for not much of a surprise, Grave Digger's No Quarter is, like, the best cover ever. Those guys are amazing, period. No matter whether it's their own music, concepts, themes, grandiosity, heaviness, the absolute feeling in their music or others' music, they deliver. Also people who haven't heard their Motörhead - Overkill cover on the Pray EP yet should get it somewhere, fast!
Well, Axxis turned into The Music Remains the Same turned into Grave Digger Appreciation Post. Well, I did say a word or two about the actual Axxis I hope.
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