The riff. The chorus. The solo.
Things don’t get metal-heads sweating quite as much as a good old Pantera song, and a live cover of the groove metal pioneers is just about the closest thing fans will have to the real thing. So the veteran headbangers of Dallas who secretly listened to Breaking Benjamin would be thanking their lucky stars that they had forked out on their guilty pleasure for an evening when the band dropped a cover of the band mid-set.
To make the moment even more testosterone-charged, the band brought the master of covers, David Draiman of Disturbed, out onstage to accompany them in their rendition of the band’s classic Walk from the seminal Vulgar Display Of Power album.
Draiman and co. went on to produce a faithful rendition of the song, with Breaking Benjamin’s front-man Benjamin Burnley allowing Draiman to take lead vocals and providing some extra drum grooves towards the end. Watch below.
Despite all members onstage having short hair, the final result was energetic, heavy and ticked all the metal clichés with a crowd chant, a sentimental onstage hug between vocalists and multiple cries of “I can’t hear you Dallas!”
Disturbed themselves are no strangers to pulling out covers, having recently got the world talking for all the wrong reasons over their cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound Of Silence. Listen below if you can stomach it.
Whilst Breaking Benjamin will probably never visit Australia due to Burnley’s phobia of flying, you can catch Disturbed in all their metal glory when they tour the country in November. See details here.
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