Stone Sour have offered another new cover, this time of Iron Maiden's "Running Free," off their upcoming covers EP, Straight Outta Burbank. Previously, we've heard the band's take on The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter", Bad Brains' "Salin' On", and others.
But how is their take on an Iron Maiden classic? Almost indistinguishable from the original:
Taylor had this to say about the Maiden cover when speaking to Metal Hammer:
“If you’re going to cover something, then you want to make sure you go for the best. It’s no secret that I’m a huge Iron Maiden fan because… I mean… it’s f–king Maiden, man! They’ve got so many great songs and I think they’ve got two vocalists that really led the charge you know. Not to put anything down that they did with Blaze [Bayley], but growing up it was [Paul] Di’Anno and [Bruce] Dickinson for me. So it was just a case of figuring out which tune we wanted to do and ‘Running Free’ just had the spirit of what we were looking for.”
“It’s kick ass, it’s driving, it’s got the great Maiden guitar breaks that makes them such a special band. So, once we settled on that song and really got into it, we were really stoked.”
What did you think of the cover? The EP will be available in record stores this Black Friday.
