SIX FEET UNDER Cover SLAYER's "At Dawn They Sleep"

Tampa, Florida's kings of groove-laden death metal SIX FEET UNDER are back with the third […]
By Dimitris Kontogeorgakos
January 8, 2010

Tampa, Florida's kings of groove-laden death metal SIX FEET UNDER are back with the third installment of their cover series, "Graveyard Classics 3", due out on January 19, 2010 via Metal Blade Records. In support of the upcoming release, the band has unleashed the very first single from the CD - a cover of SLAYER's "At Dawn They Sleep" - on its MySpace page. Commented vocalist Chris Barnes: "We chose the track "At Dawn They Sleep" to be the first single off "Graveyard Classics 3". We've wanted to do a SLAYER song for a while and lots of our fans have been requesting that we do a SLAYER song as well; "At Dawn They Sleep" really seemed like it would lend itself to our style. And, to be honest, I've always preferred the early SLAYER stuff, "Hell Awaits" and prior. I think the production and song structure of their early recordings are raw and in your face, in a very dynamic way, and that's the type of band SFU is, so it seemed to fit on a bunch of different levels.

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