There are some departures, such as the instrumentation being a bit different, but the idea remains the same. This song is in the same singer/songwriter style as the original. Before delivering a fatal blow to her head with a rock, Nick proclaims that "all beauty must die." This song is based on the traditional song "Down in the Willow Garden." In this song Nick's character kills Kylie's character, in order to prevent her from growing old and losing her beauty. Like its name suggests, the songs on the album focus on shady tales of murder, the abnormal characters who commit them and often the victims. 1996's Murder Ballads is perhaps Nick Cave's most well known and praised album. I've always felt that the 1990s was the decade that produced Nick Cave's best work. The original is an unlikely duet between acclaimed singer/songwriter and Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. The style Kamelot uses here actually isn't all that far off from the original.īefore I go any further, I should note that this cover doesn't have shit on the original. Kamelot's cover of Nick Cave's classic "Where The Wild Roses Grow" isn't nearly as bad as I assumed it would be, but this is largely due to the fact that the band abandons the power metal format.
Nick Cave's songwriting just wouldn't make sense when put into a power metal setting. I'm not saying this because I personally like Nick Cave and generally dislike power metal. This is a sad little song, and unfortunately a weak final moment for Kahn before parting ways with Kamelot.Ī power metal band covering a Nick Cave song is surely destined to end in complete disaster. And when including genre-crossing interludes such as this in conjunction with an album that struggles to be consistently metallic, one couldn't help but question exactly where Kamelot was heading. To be fair, Chanty Wunder is a capable vocalist and a listen to her previous work with Fräulein Wunder will showcase an adequate take on an all girl pop/rock outfit, but as is the case with all parties present in Kamelot, even a flock of well trained professionals can't turn a boring song into anything else by just simply going through the motions. People bitch constantly about power metal bands speeding up old pop tunes and throwing in extra stuff, but to be perfectly honest, most of these songs needed the extras added on to actually make them listenable. A few basic chord combinations and some heavily predictable orchestrations are pretty well what defines this ballad, and rather than screwing with the arrangement and trying to create something fun or different, Youngblood and the gang just switch in some different keyboard settings and coast through as if they are a cover band playing to the same audience that the original version did. Not withstanding the extremely dry and flat melodies that transform a passionate and masterful vocalist like Roy Kahn into a bad broadway knockoff, there isn't really much to this song to begin with.
It's the sort of boredom that would make one just shrug and say in a sarcastic tone "Another guy killed his wife/lover for some warped reason, quick call The Enquirer!". Far be it for any metal fanatic to complain about a creepy story of a psychotic lover killing his woman because he doesn't want her to grow old, but when combining the less than dynamic melody lines that Roy Kahn has been saddled with here, along with the generally flat character of his female counterpart's predetermined script, a legitimate theme of love and woe gets transformed into something extremely boring. While I am not terribly familiar with the original version of this song, there is a very strong affinity in this cover with the depressive and dark to the point of melodrama character of mid 90s rock music. In much the same way that a number of bands start it to move off the reservation and experiment in the mid 2000s, Kamelot has been quick to incorporate a lot of non-metal elements into the mix, and this cover of "Where The Wild Roses Grow" underscores how convoluted the latter days of Kamelot were shaping up in the studio. But regardless to where it began, "Poetry For The Poisoned" was among the least well received albums by power metal enthusiasts circa 2010, though it was a slight step up from its predecessor. Roy Khan takes over Nick Cave's role, while Chanty Wunder takes over Kylie Minogue's role.Opinions vary regarding whether this band started to decline a few years back with "Ghost Opera", or if the album that included this cover of a 90s ballad was a lone nadir in an otherwise consistent career. This soft ballad is a cover of a song by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. Where the Wild Roses Grow is a European bonus track of Kamelot's tenth album, Poetry for the Poisoned.
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