out April 2: Austrialian heavy metal LORD's megagigantic Undercovers Vol. 1

Ok, fan of cover songs, the Australian traditional heavy/power Lord has a monster compilation of their versions of some classics, some lesser-known songs by legendary bands, and their heavy metal versions of some classic pop artists. Given that the band is very skilled, very experienced, have a good contemporary, muscular yet melodic sound, and good melodic male singing: How much do you like covers?! One moment the band is covering a Queensryche song (no, not the one you're thinking of!) or Cutting Crew (yes, that one, the only song you're thinking of!), or they go into Iron Maiden (nope, not one of their hits!) and Kylie Minogue (not the one that Americans know the most) and The Police (yup, one of their many hits). Surprise, surprise, there's a whole lot of 1980s music that gets covered because big kahuna jefe Tim (that's "Lord Tim" to you) in 1989 was already singing and playing music with his first band and still going very strong with LORD.

ABOUT: UNDERCOVERS VOL. 1 will be an exclusive 23 track release available on Bandcamp as both a digital release and as various bundle packs that includes a T-shirt, and a CD that is hand-numbered and limited to 500 hand numbered copies only, worldwide. Both the CD and streaming platforms will have a limited track listing, with Bandcamp being the exclusive destination to own all 23 tracks, which includes two covers by Lord Tim’s Blackened Angel project, as well as over 2 hours of Andy and LT talking about the stories behind the songs. The entire release clocks in at over 3 hours and 40 minutes.

Australian metallers LORD have announced their new covers album, “Undercovers Vol. 1” due out 2 April 2021 on Dominus Records. Featuring first single “To the Moon and Back” by Australian Pop Group Savage Garden.

Bassist Andy explains, “Covers have been a big love of ours since the early days of Dungeon right up to and including now. Over the years in LORD these tracks have ended up on limited edition releases, bonus tracks in isolated parts of the world and other weird and wonderful places. These songs have been scattered over so many different places that even we struggle ourselves to remember where on earth all of these songs can be found.

While bands around the world continue to navigate these uncertain times, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to release this collection of cover songs, as well as new recordings, to keep the LORD machine moving while we continue to write new music.”

Andy continues, “UNDERCOVERS VOL. 1 is the first instalment of amassing this ever growing collection of cover tracks that LORD have recorded over the years whether it be in the studio or on the stage. There will be many you’re familiar with and there will also be a few surprises. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and decided to record two new cover songs for this release, SAVAGE GARDEN’s “To the Moon and Back” and JUDAS PREIEST’s “Reckless” and we even threw in two covers from LT’s Blackened Angel project. Artwork has been once again created by the talented TRISTAN TAIT and a hand numbered limited edition CD release will celebrate the highlights from Volume 1 of our Undercover journey.”

Undercovers Vol​.​1 by LORD