The Heaviest Banjo in the Universe: A hillbilly heavy metal cover of Gojira

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/18/the-heaviest-banjo-in-the-univ.html

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Interesting, although – as far as country/metal/rock hybrids go – I sense greater sincerity in Reverend Horton Heat’s “Eat A Steak” even given its mock-hawking for the Texas Beef Industry.

:slight_smile:

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I felt a certain little bit of arousal while watching it.

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Better pour yourself a big one @Papasan…because… you know…

:wink:

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Warping the genesis of bluegrass for me.

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Apparently there’s dueling banjo country and their’s pillaging warband of banjos country.

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metal sans distortion sounds puny and simplistic
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Opening band for GWAR.

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I have a sympathetic sore throat after watching that.

The fiddle player has some serious bow twirling prowess, but I was kind of hoping for a thrash fiddle solo. Nothing doing.

ETA: Turnabout is fair play:

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I think it says something that even without the distortion I had an immediate positive reaction to every Slayer sample.

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He’s picking a lot more in the video than in the recording.

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Or all-bard adventuring group

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But seriously, a fiddler and an old timey band is cabable of so much more than that.

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Slayer:
Now with ukulele

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Significantly better than the original o.O’.

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Does Rob Scallon have a family member who compulsively makes straw hats or something? How does he get so many straw hats?

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