One heroic YouTube channel has taken on the thankless task of blending the concise, accessible sounds of pop music with the abrasive brutality of metal. In doing so, the channel titled Petr Gorst, has created a goldmine of short mashup masterpieces to make this grey, unforgiving world at least slightly more tolerable.
Slayer ft. ABBA, Megadeth ft. Lou Bega, the mashup combinations are limitless, so let’s have a look at some of the channel’s best work. God bless the internet.
Pantera ft. Annie Lennox
The ear-shredding howls of Paul Anselmo backed by Annie Lennox‘s shimmering, ambient instrumental delivers an avant-garde uppercut straight to the chin of conformist pop and metal music.
ABBA ft. Slayer
This answers the age old question, would ABBA‘s beloved strain of Swedish disco-pop form a suitable basis for Slayer’s demonic verses. Wait? No one’s ever asked that? Well, here it is anyway.
Lou Bega ft. Megadeth
Megadeth‘s sinister guitar work reveals Lou Bega‘s darker intent with his lyrics: “Jump up and down and move it all around/Shake your head to the sound/Put your hand on the ground/Take one step left and one step right.” Hollow Cha-Cha Slide rhetoric or a satirical jab at mindless obedience? It also poses the question, would Lou Bega still be a better metal singer than Dave Mustaine?
Metallica ft. Roxette
Another collaboration that, sadly, no one asked for. Metallica‘s James Hetfield is the ultimate pop crooner, able to transcend all genres with his God-given pipes.
Slayer ft. Depeche Mode
The thing is, this works so well, too well in fact, that it leads us to believe that this collaboration was always the plan for these two ’80s icons, their respective scenes just weren’t ready for such innovation yet.
Is thrash metal pop the next great step for popular music? Let us know, in the meantime, why not click here to watch some more pop/metal madness.
