For anyone who paid attention to Allegaeon's latest release "Proponent For Sentience", you would have recognised a well known Canadian band was covered at the end of the album. Rush's "Subdivisions" is a widely unrecognized and underappreciated song from the band's massive discography, but there is another track that is probably even more off the radar. This time around Allegaeon are taking a stab at "Animate" from the 1993 album "Counterparts".
From beginning to end this is a very faithful cover, Rush is a band that's hard to nail and still make it your own, Allegaeon take what Rush had done to begin with make it a bit it more Hard Rock (this barely breaks into Metal territory, which is actually good) while in the original version the song was a fairly soft piece, Geddy Lee's voice was a bit more sing-song in it than his regular tone in some more recognisable songs, Allegaeon stuck true to this while maintaining the faintest bit of aggression in the vocals. Instrumentally, this version covers the same idea, add some distortion and play a little faster, but all around very faithful.
Allegaeon won't be back in the studio until March 2018 to record their follow up to "Proponent of Sentience" but for the time being, they'll be gracing you with this digital single on 1.6.18 definitely check it out if you're a Rush fan, or even if you have no idea who Rush is and you just liked the "Subdivisions" cover!
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