Celtic Frost cover

Background bytes: I've done big pile of tribute videos for bands, where I've used studio track of the song and then selected a fitting bootleg video for the project - then syncing and finetuning the bootleg / gig video of that selected tune so, that it runs smoothly (or in some cases smoothly enough) with the studio track. Sometimes it's been a lot of work, sometimes surprisingly easy. But I wouldn't had been doing all that, if it wasn't fun thing to do. I enjoy the result and I get kicks of it. In some cases I've got extra kicks when member of band I've done tribute for, have commented something in brief to the video, or just posted something like \m/ ... of course it feels awesome. Even more so as naturally I tend to do tributes for bands / music that I've liked a lot, in many cases for tens of years already, since 1980s or so.

Recently I got an idea for crafting bit different kind of tribute / fan art video. Different how?

Well, I've personally covered big bunch of bands / tunes back in the early 2000s especially, when "tracked metalscene" was at its' most active era (the most active era was let's say 2000-2004). Tracked metalscene didn't last as a real scene for more than roughly 10 years, depending where you count it's birth and death. But anyway, I was really active metal tracker in the scene with nick "Aeuk" (whadda surprise) and while I tracked lots of crappy stuff (I mean truly lofi and rough and cruel as hell sounding shit - not in a good way) I also personally "peaked" around let's say 2002-2004 with tracked metal mods. I also crafted big bunch of metal cover songs that I still like and am even a bit proud of in some ways. So, ... the idea was following:

1. Let's take a good tracked metal cover I've done as Aeuk
2. Let's seek ancient bootleg video of the band which I covered
3. Let's throw both coversong and bootleg video into video editor
4. Let's edit them so, that bootleg video is synced with coversong
5. Let's throw lyrics into the video edit to make it even more fun

The first cover tune that I thought for this was for the band I've followed since a kid in 1986 ... Celtic Frost. CF, especially with their magical lineup of Tom/Martin/Reed. I covered CF's "Visions of mortality" back in 2003 and another tracked metalscene guy nicknamed Nightrealm took care of vocals.

Without further babbling, here's the end result (and I've already got something more lined up). You can check out it at <Youtube> or directly below if you for some reason don't wanna go to Youtube.

Enjoy!