Homefront – Songs for the Resistance – Review

Cover your eyes and ears because this sucks!

Summary: I will never listen to cover songs again.

Genre: Rotting, festering garbage

Expected Release Date: Irrelevant

-4 Stars (yes, negative -4)

Homefront: Songs for the Resistance is a compilation of classic war songs redone by modern day metal bands. What it really is, however, is a steaming pile of animal feces (you can pick the animal). To have so many classic songs, having already perfectly depicted the landscape of their times, be raped, tortured and sodomized by the latest and greatest and cheapest to hire metal bands of the day is obscene. I’m gonna go on the record and state that I never want to hear another metal cover of any old song that isn’t originally metal ever again. I feel cold. I feel lifeless. I feel like I’ve been stomped in my nutsack by a chainsaw shoe wearing Andre the Giant. Let’s really get down to what’s wrong with this album though….

WAR ENSEMBLE – As I Lay Dying (originally by Slayer)
This is actually the best track on here, but it’s also might be the worst because it doesn’t quite prepare you for the shitstorm that lies ahead. The music sounds great, the vocals do not.

FIGHT THE POWER – Dillinger Escape Plan (originally by Public Enemy)
Fight the cover! Ugghhhh. Once again the vocals leave a lot to be desired. A whole lot. Like, why even redo them? Just sample Chuck D and work the music metal style. But don’t do that either. Just don’t do anything. Stay. Stay right there and don’t move.

UPRISING – Iwrestledabearonce (originally by Muse)
This is so recent that it makes you wonder how much it really costs to license Muse. I know it costs more than it took to get IWABO to cover this, but was it that much more? Verdict: Unnecessarily covered.

WAR PIGS – The Acacia Strain (originally by Black Sabbath)
Takes the cake for worst track. Which is like comparing getting your dick stuck in a fat chicks dirty asshole because the fecal matter is drying to prying your cock from a bear trap. Heads up for the singer in this band, Ozzy sings more than one note, jerkoff! Try it sometime.

ONE – Periphery (originally by Metallica)
Let’s just say it’s no worse than all the other crappy covers of this song that you’ve heard before. E.G. The vocals suck. Who would’ve thought it would be so hard to outdo James Hetfield on vocals?

FORTUNATE SON – The Ghost Inside (originally by CCR)
The music isn’t that bad, but the vocals meet the previous standards already set. Metal vocalists all sound like they are just doing bad impressions of other bad metal vocalists nowadays. Especially this one. I can’t tell’em apart these days.

FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH – Winds of Plague (originally by Buffalo Springfield)
The vocals, the vocals, the vocals….. The music isn’t the worst I’ve heard on this album. Good job?

US AND THEM – Misery Signals (originally by Pink Floyd)
Oh growl, growl, growl yourself to death already. It’s not hard to do! Most use effects on their voices too! The rest of it isn’t horrifyingly bad, which is a surprise. One question though: Why not just use Between The Buried And Mes’ version from their cover album? Oh, not in the budget? Or were you just stuck inside this pathetic idea so long that your brain rotted?

MASTERS OF WAR – Arsonists Get All The Girls (originally by Bob Dylan)
Now, I don’t even like Dylan okay. Let’s just get that straight and out of the way. On the other hand, you can’t just growl and speed metal your way past talent and creativity. There’s gotta be a better way! As soon as I figure it out, you’ll be the first to know. The clean vocals suck too. It’s obvious they aren’t practiced a lot.

WAR – Oceano (originally by Edwin Starr)
War, what’s Oceano good for? Absolutely nothing! Down tuned, slopfest of epic proportions. Indecipherable verse vocals. (What’s new?)

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY – Veil of Maya (originally by U2)
You would have no idea what song is being covered if it weren’t titled. Wow. Might have tied up for worst track with Acacia Strains’ War Pigs. Having this end the album is akin to getting your ass beat and then having the perpetrator release his bowels into your mouth.

By popular vote, what’s the reason this album was made this way?

1) Not in the budget to license original songs.
2) Someone with his “hear to streets” thought war game + metal + classic war songs was a brilliant idea! “Totally organic” with a cultured side of hipster!

I demand who(m)ever was responsible to come forward and apologize. You are a bad man. A very bad man.