“You Fail Me” is the title track from Converge‘s fifth album and their (relative) commercial breakthrough, released over 20 years ago. Converge aren’t a band we’ve spent a lot of time on here at Cover Me as they’re metalcore, an abrasive hybrid between contemporary metal and hardcore punk. Though extremely prolific for the first decade-plus of their existence, few bands have taken on their songs because, well, they’re metalcore.

Blood Vulture are an alternative metal/doom metal project which debuted last year. We’re getting into metal arcana now, but the short version is that doom metal is a more traditional form of metal than metalcore – doom metal dates from the ’80s, metalcore from the mid to late ’90s – and “alternative metal” just means metal bands that take things from non-metal genres and add them to their sound. And no, it wouldn’t be normal for a doom metal band from the ’80s to cover a metalcore band. But, of course, Blood Vulture are a new project. Continue reading »