Y NO COVERZ???

What better way to pay tribute to a highly influential band than to cover one of their songs. They can either completely destroy the song or really highlight what we all loved about it to begin with. Either way, it's (usually) a great honor to have one of your songs covered. But there's one group of bands that I've NEVER seen a single cover from.


So basically every modern hardcore band has covered Black Flag, Misfits, Minor Threat, and Suicidal Tendencies. I don't even have a band, nor do I know how to play an instrument, but I've probably covered songs by these bands at some point.

In the mid-late 1990s, a group of my personal favorite bands formed and started playing hardcore as wild and as loud as they wanted. They were years ahead of their time and we're really accepted by the hardcore community until recently. These bands include Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Coalesce, Cave In, Jesuit, and Deadguy.

On RateYourMusic, a website which lets your average Joe's give their opinion on what the "best albums" are, most of these bands top out the best metalcore albums of all time list--which to me is surprising that the more commercially successful bands like Killswitch Engage and Bullet for My Valentine aren't anywhere near the top since this is a list based on what anyone and everyone thinks. These bands also dominate the best mathcore albums of all time, and are peppered throughout the best hardcore punk albums of all time.

Most of them have also been honored by Decibel magazine and included in their Hall of Fame.

Obviously they've got quite the fanbase, are subject to a lot of critical acclaim, and have a devoted following. So why then has no one ever covered songs by these bands? And how long do you have to be a band before other bands feel comfortable enough to cover your songs?

It's been about 12 years since Botch's masterpiece We Are the Romans came out, and it's no secret that the album had a major influence on Norma Jean, Underoath, Fear Before the March of Flames and The Chariot among others. Has not enough time gone by? Is their acclaim not wide enough? Are bands afraid they couldn't do these songs justice?

Personally, I would LOVE to hear some reinterpretations of songs by these bands. I guess I'll have to keep waiting.