Aesthetics Of Hate - Machine Head (Piano Cover)

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This is one of my all-time favourite songs. Not just for its musical content and compositional brilliance, but also for the fact that it was written for and about the late Dimebag Darrell, who was outrageously and tragically murdered whilst playing to Damageplan's FANS in Winter 2004.

Aesthetics of Hate was written by Machine Head vocalist and guitarist Robert Flynn. Written as a retaliation to an article by William Grim for the conservative web site Iconoclast, the article praised Dimebag Darrell's murder by Nathan Gale, while Darrell was performing with the band Damageplan on December 8th, 2004. Titled "Aesthetics of Hate: R.I.P. Dimebag Abbott, & Good Riddance", Grim wrote the article stating Darrell was "part of a generation that has confused sputum with art and involuntary reflex actions with emotion", "an ignorant, barbaric, untalented possessor of a guitar" who looks "more simian than human".

After reading the article, Flynn was furious and wrote "Aesthetics of Hate" as a contempt to Grim's article, and Dimebag detractors. He wrote a message on the band's forum expressing his friendship with Darrell and spoke about Grim:

"What would YOU know about love or values? What would YOU know about giving to the world? All that you know is teaching prejudice, and your heart is as black as the 'ignorant, filthy, and hideously ugly, heavy metal fans' you try and paint in your twisted, fictitious ramblings. It's because of people like YOU, that there are Nathan Gales in this world, NOT the Dimebags and metal musicians who work to unite people through music."
—Robert Flynn

I attempted to get this as close to the original arrangement as possible. Hopefully it paid off. Plenty of errors but it's quite a tough one to nail cleanly.

This song was possible thanks to Vika Yermolyeva: www.vkgoeswild.com

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[mishaprisjazhnjuk]

insane cover))) 

[Zer0MT]

@mishaprisjazhnjuk Thanks a lot, glad you liked!

[HaraBara642]

Amazing!

[Zer0MT]

@HaraBara642 Thank you =)

[CarwynDistortionBass]

I came ....

[Zer0MT]

@CarwynDistortionBass Hahaha! Awesome...I think?!

[mishaprisjazhnjuk]

@Zer0MT You're welcome) Keep it up!!!

[Zer0MT]

@TheThrasher94 If you do a good enough job, I'll be sure to hire you for all my future contract killings of my critics. My current assassin is getting a bit slack and showing mercy...

Cheers, appreciate it!

[TheThrasher94]

Who disliked this? I will hunt them down. Excellent job man.

[Zer0MT]

@StinkyShocker69 Nice one, thanks a lot!