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ooooo ooooo .oooooo. oooooooooooo HOE E'ZINE RELEASE #623
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`888' `888' d8P' `Y8b `888' `8
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888 888 888 888 888 "Apocalyptica Plays Metallica
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888ooooo888 888 888 888oooo8 By Four Cellos"
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888 888 888 888 888 "
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888 888 `88b d88' 888 o by Phairgirl [5/9/99]
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o888o o888o `Y8bood8P' o888ooooood8
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Wow.
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There's nothing else to be said, really, except for wow.
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My days online pass with constant downloading of mp3s from illegal
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sites, burning them to CD, trading with other interested parties, and
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wondering just how much trouble a person could really get into by doing
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this sort of thing. It's a lame sort of thrill, not really a thrill at
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all, just the illusion of something sneaky and anarchic. For some, that is
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a good enough reason to play the mp3 game. Then, for people like me who
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long to hear once more the strained beautiful melodies from bands like
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Wumpscut and The Cycle Sluts From Hell, it becomes a little bit more than
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that.
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All tangents aside, there's nothing more fun than finding a new ftp
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site and discovering sometimes hundreds of new sounds, new songs, new
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perspectives, new anything. It was upon such an adventure one day that I
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began massively leeching from some industrial-type music site when I found
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a gem among all the monotonous muck.
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There were two songs, "Nothing Else Matters" and "One," both by
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Apocalyptica. Obviously, Metallica cover tunes. Okay, well, considering
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there seemed to be a great number of Madonna cover tunes on industrial
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sites, I figured, why not see what kind of spin they put on such an old
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standard. It's not like I had any preconceived notions; anymore, I
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download anything that sits on a server alongside something else I even
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kind-of like.
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A day later, or a couple of days later, whenever I actually got
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around to listening to the previous night's conquested mp3s, I stumbled
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upon the songs again in my playlist. At first, I was kind of confused by
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the complete lack of an 808 or some German man growling rabidly.
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I continued to listen, and what I heard was utterly the most amazing
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music I had heard since I discovered Dream Theater back in 1992.
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I looked again. Yes, this really was Metallica's songs; however,
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they were being played completely by string instruments (which I would
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later come to narrow down as being cellos). It was kind of an odd shock;
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first was the shock that someone was playing "heavy metal" music on a
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cello. The second shock was simply how beautiful it was. However, the
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third shock was the best of all, where I truly discovered why it all
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worked: the songs themselves were beautifully and brilliantly written.
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I glanced again at the name.
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Apocalyptica.
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That night, I found myself at the wonderfully glorious Kennedy Mall
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in all of its 30 stores of splendor. I wandered through Musicland, coming
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up almost empty-handed trying to find something of value (although I did
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manage to pick up an old Morcheeba disc I was looking for, John Petrucci
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and Mike Portnoy's side project from Dream Theater, Liquid Tension
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Experiment, and the single for that annoying song "(Not the) Greatest
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Rapper" which I seem to find cute, but here I am on a tangent again. At
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the counter, I asked the cute little girl with the nosering and eyebrow
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ring if they could order Apocalyptica.
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(Okay, tangent time: That dumb bitch. She SWORE they had it, and
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spent 15 minutes of my fucking time looking through the same exact fucking
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racks I just finished looking through and didn't find SHIT. I hate stupid
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pseudo-cool piercings people who think they are so damn cool and know
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everything there is to know about anything when they don't know shit,
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especially, how incredibly retarded they look in bright orange tank tops.
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But I digress.)
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I wandered aimlessly through the mall, heading toward the other
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bastian of evil, Sam Goody. Lo and behold, I walk to the letter "A" and
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Apocalyptica is somehow out of order and sitting front and center...
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smiling at me... drawing me closer... forcing me to ignore the $17.99
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corporate music store ripoff price.
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I snatched it up, along with its little friend--two happy discs of
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Apocalyptica, all for me! All for my happy ears to listen! All for just
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$35!
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Once I was home later that night, I gave them first spin. I was
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planning on only spending a half hour on the computer, as I had to work at
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the crack of dawn. Interestingly, there was absolutely nothing of interest
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or consequence happening on IRC. I couldn't find any new mp3s to download.
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Nobody was online to speak of. Yet somehow, I forced myself to find
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something to do for almost 2 hours as I finished listening to both of my
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new discs.
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The first, Inquisition Symphony, was actually the newer of the two
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discs, and contained the two songs I had downloaded. To my extreme joy and
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rapture, not only did they cover Metallica, but also Pantera, Sepultura,
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and Faith No More. I listened in utter amazement to what they had done to
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songs I had heard hundreds of times before while growing up watching
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Headbanger's Ball. It was all beyond comprehension.
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The second, Apocalyptica Plays Metallica By Four Cellos, was just
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that: a disc of Metallica cover tunes, spanning most of Metallica's music
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up to and including the black album. It included my favorite Metallica
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song also, "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)". Nothing I have ever heard before
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or since sounded so utterly amazing.
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Don't get me wrong; I'm not one of those obsessive classical music
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freaks. In fact, I took Music Appreciation in college and came out hating
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everything but Mozart and Beethoven. However, I do hold a special place in
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my heart for any one or any thing that will stand up for the music I grew
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up with and loved, and Apocalyptica has done it with such amazing clarity
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and symphonic beauty that it has become almost impossible to think of
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listening to anything else.
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Wow.
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Kill your local piercings inflicted corporate music store clerk for
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a copy today.
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[ (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #623 - WRITTEN BY: PHAIRGIRL - 5/9/99 ]
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