YouTuber Records “New” Metallica Song Written by a Bot: Stream
The post YouTuber Records “New” Metallica Song Written by a Bot: Stream appeared first on Consequence of Sound.
An enterprising YouTuber has given the world a “new” Metallica song with lyrics written entirely by a bot. Thanks to parody musician Kirt Connor (under his Funk Turkey pseudonym), we now have the modern thrash-terpiece “Deliverance Rides”.
As Connor explained in his YouTube description, “Using lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database, I made a Markov Chain write Metallica lyrics. This is the end result — ‘Deliverance Rides’.”
To break it down, lyrics.rip is a site that lets you plug in any artist’s name and it will churn out lyrics for a “new” song based on that act’s existing lyrics. A Markov Chain, according to WIkipedia, is “a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event.”
So, generating random lyrics to a “new” song by our favorite artists is easy enough for any of us to do. But actually recording that song is a pretty cool feat, especially considering that Connor plays all instruments and handles vocals.
“All music/vocals performed, mixed, and mastered by me, in my kitchen, on a couple of cheap guitars, a crappy mic, and an old copy of ProTools,” wrote Connor on YouTube. “All lyrics provided by the ROBOTS THAT WANT TO RULE US ALL (AKA lyrics.rip).”
Connor actually does a pretty decent impression of James Hetfield, and captures the vibe of a Metallica song in the instrumentation. “I tried to get a sound somewhere between the Master of Puppets album and ‘The Black Album’,” Connor expounded. “Lars’ drum sound is quite hard to get right without spending a lot of money (or, in some cases, buying a trash can). Guitars are multitracked a LOT.”
As for the lyrics, there’s some gems in there, like, “I’m the sun/ I’m insane/ Yes, she’ll never love/ Never me/ So let it be/ Death! / Deliverance Rides.”
In the past couple months, Connor did the same for Nickelback and AC/DC, resulting in the songs “Nobody Died Every Single Day” and “Great Balls”, respectively. More recently, he churned out a Red Hot Chili Peppers song called “Tool Shed”, although his Anthony Kiedis impression is not quite on par with his James Hetfield impersonation.
Editors' Picks
Metallica Metallica performing in quarantine Metallica Perform Socially Distant Rendition of “Blackened”: Watch
Check out the bot-written Metallica song “Deliverance Rides” below, and visit the Funk Turkey YouTube channel for more of Kirt Connor’s parody videos.
YouTuber Records “New” Metallica Song Written by a Bot: Stream
Spencer Kaufman
Popular Posts
