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Bow to your masters
There is a new Deep Purple tribute album out, and it is by a bunch of bands most of us never heard of. It was put together by an outfit called Glory or Death Records that is described as “California underground heavy rock and metal specialists”. The album is called Bow to Your Masters Volume Two: Deep Purple. Apparently, Volume 1 was released a couple of years ago and was dedicated to Thin Lizzy.
Track and performers list:
- Demon’s Eye – Big Scenic Nowhere
- Speed King – Gygax
- Maybe I’m A Leo – RedWitch Johnny (Ft. Matthew Putman)
- Black Night – Topsy Kretts
- Into the Fire – Saturn
- Burn – High Reeper (Ft. Jillian Taylor of Ruby The Hatchet)
- Highway Star – Great Electric Quest (Ft. Francis Roberts)
- Smoke – Steak (Ft. Chantal Brown)
- Love Child – Mos Generator
- Child in Time – Asphodel Wine
- Gettin’ Tighter – Temple of Love (Ft. Anton Pukshansky)
- Fireball – Red Wizard
- Space Truckin’ – KOOK
- Pictures Of Home – Worshipper
- Perfect Strangers – YOB
Here’s a six-minute preview of the album, followed by full streaming:
The album is already out on digital download, with a 2LP gatefold vinyl promised in November 2021 and available for preorder.
Thanks to Sanches for the heads up and to Riff Relevant for the additional info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Terrible for first listen.
May 8th, 2021 at 15:14There is 15 different singer, all of them useless. The ideas are wrong, the mix and master make me die.
As a producer: Why someone put money in a “production” like this?
I think the scream in child sounds pretty accurate to me, fireball and love child sound pretty good too.
May 8th, 2021 at 19:02The teaser is so disappointing! It was hard to wait for Perfect Strangers and it was not even worth it.
May 8th, 2021 at 21:05Apologies to all, but I rather like it… actually it’s pretty cool. To be brutal, what’s not to like? It’s a harmless tribute from a small label and I like some of the (snippets) versions… it’s always nice to hear Purps being covered and the spin on artwork is brilliant.
I’m tempted to pre-order, i’d say it’ll be a pretty rare artifact…
For me, just enjoy the trip and the recognition of a brilliant, brilliant band.
🙂
May 9th, 2021 at 08:13bonjour à tous pour ma part aucun interet….
May 9th, 2021 at 18:16Fantastic tribute record! I love the sludgey/doomy/stonery arrangements, this is definitely something different, and I really appreciated it.
May 10th, 2021 at 08:04Ondok Patrik@1
May 10th, 2021 at 10:02I agree 100%
The only positive thing out all of this to admire the original recording.
Peace
Another one. Terrible, their has not been one good one yet. It’s a pass for me.
May 10th, 2021 at 12:24What some people tent to forget here, which to me is a shame, is that Deep Purple once started out as a badly produced tribute/coverband.
May 11th, 2021 at 08:24They were, just like these bands once a young band, working hard to get somewhere playing both songs from the artists they admire combined with their own material.
And they were, just like some people on this feed are doing with these bands, badly reviewed by alot of people.
To me it has it’s charm, just like the first three mark 1 albums which i hold very dear to my heart.
An often overlooked era of Deep Purple, but it did lay the foundation of what the band eventually became, which is one of the best hardrock/heavy metal bands in the history of rock music and music in general.
I, for one, am someone who’s supporting young and upcoming artists.
Because who knows, there might be a new, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica or Uriah Heep between these, still small and unknown names.
Just like these big names were once small, unknown and badly reviewed by the masses.
Oh, Thunderhawk, you absobloodylutely missed the point here, IMO. These bands from the very start programely reach for the easier targets, covers of famous bands. Early DP just from time to time puzzled their jacksaw with some covers from the lack of their own material, and – even so at the times – rock scene just started to forming.
May 12th, 2021 at 02:48Anyway, some good stuff over there, no need to slash it all as it stands. But generally, waste record for wastin´times.
The best cover album of DP of all times? Surely the “BLACK NIGHT: DEEP PURPLE TRIBUTE ACCORDING TO NEW YORK” from 1996. Inspired and hugely interesting.
What I hear in the sampler is the love of Deep Purple from another generation of rock musicians who have been influenced by them.
May 13th, 2021 at 02:03@Thunderhawk@9
Every musician starts by doing cover songs but the issue is the final result.
May 13th, 2021 at 22:01Frankly in my humble opinion that they are not great cover songs in any Shap or form but that’s not to say they are not good musicians.
Watch the Dead Daisies playing the Beatles song live on stage to get my point.
Peace
I haven’t bothered listening to this tribute album yet but if you want a really, and I do mean REALLY, bad rendition of Smoke check out episode 3, series 3 of Bates Motel from around 28 minutes in! Hopefully he’s just acting the part of someone who can’t sing or play guitar, though to be fair I don’t suppose I’d sound any better.
May 16th, 2021 at 11:27Coverdian; “Puzzled their jacksaw” ????
May 16th, 2021 at 11:31I don t want to be negative. But if another very modern composer of classical music would make an atonal, no tonality at all, style arrangement using Deep Purple songs, it would sound having nothing to do with DP music! If that would be art -the discussion and opinions are still free. Maybe I should listen first that album twice during different days. But DP has never been any kind of a death metal band or some dark psychedelia style, thus their sound does not fit in the style so easily.Maybe those bands in the record do handle only their own genre best. But the Purple Album was a succesfully arranged musical art work by the man taken part himself in the birth of the music (harmonies, sounds, rhythms,arrangements, structures, talented musicians etc).But as I told, the world is still a free place for a while. One can taste the music and have free points of a view.
May 18th, 2021 at 03:598 Bit Arcade Ultimate Deep Purple! Amazing! https://music.apple.com/au/album/the-ultimate-deep-purple/1470606172
June 2nd, 2021 at 05:29