I usually don't care for covers. I especially detest covers of songs by my beloved Sisters of Mercy. This Corrosion was the song that introduced me to the Sisters. I remember listening to This Corrosion on repeat - by myself, in the dark, and chemically enhanced. What made things interesting in my condition, the song was on cassette - so I had to fumble the rewind button each time to repeat. Not my usual style, the Sisters are not exactly punk rock. The Sisters are the god fathers of the Gothic movement. A melding of English post-punk and glam-pop by the likes of Joy Division, The Damned, Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Interestingly the German underground culture glommed onto this genre and in my opinion ruined some incredible music. Bands with names like Sepulcrum Mentis, Dreadful Shadows and Babylon Will Fall created a tribute to The Sisters of Mercy album. Dressed in shadow and siting direct lineage to Vlad Tepes these androgenes kooks slither in slow motion behind a permanent bank of artificial fog. The singers of these bands give Barry White a run for deepest voice while encouraging their listeners to slit their wrists in a cloud of white facial powder and pagan spells. Who can out Dracul the other. It's all about the theatrics - not about the music.
It was with some hesitation I decided to give the Maryslim version of This Corrosion a run through. These guys hail from Sweden and though they aren't German, I was still expecting another vampire suck fest. They brought Jyki69 from The 69 Eyes on board to sing a duet with Maryslim. This version is considerably rocked up compared to the original. Jyrki69's growls in the deeper registers while Maryslim's frontman sings a couple notches shy of falsetto. Together they make the song their own and it is awesome.
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