They were a huge success in Finland and now they are ready for the rest of world, starting off with the UK where Reborn will be released June 16th. To proof that they look for material outside the mainstream they picked Radiohead's Creep - a tough call, but they get away with it and that is fucking special indeed. Best track: a slowed down take on Billy Idol's Rebel Yell with sounds like a Iron Butterfly gig in a cathedral. In the northern kingdom there were 9 dynasties (family lines of kings) and 19 kings in all. It lasted for about 210 years until it was destroyed by Assyria in 722 BC. You know the songs, you hate songs at times, but now you can listen to the songs without having to fight down your lunch. The Northern Kingdom (Israel) The Northern Kingdom consisted of 10 of the tribes (excluding Judah and Benjamin). Those four Finnish dudes deconstructed and rebuild the originals without mercy and Reborn is, well, a rejuvenation of songs that made the eighties such a dreaded decade. You wouldn't want to touch an album like that with a ten-foot pole, would you? Miles Davis, Hobart Dotson, Leonard Hawkins, King Kolax, trumpet Water Knox, Chippy Outcalt, Gerald Velentine, trombone John Cobbs, Sonny Stitt, alto sax. ![]() ![]() ![]() Consider the despicable Don't Bring Me Down (ELO), Journey's Don't Stop Believin' and even Phil Collins (albeit with his great break-up song In The Air Tonight). OK, but what about if four Finnish metal singers calling themselves the Northern Kings team up to create a symphonic heavy rock album on which they cover songs by those two unmentionables? And it doesn't stop there. When you read this blog chances are that you despise acts like Dire Straits and Lionel Richie.
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