Beatallica! (ohmigod!ohmigod!ohmigod!)

Many of you often wonder where the hell I find a lot of the music I listen to. One of the sites which generally reviews indie music veers delightfully off into pop, r'n'b and hip-hop territory in their 'We are the World' section.

Get on a file-sharing service and download this stuff. So far, 'Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band' is my favorite, but 'The Thing That Should Not Let It Be' is pretty damn good too.

Pitchfork: We Are The World: "Beatallica: 'Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning'
Beatles songs reworked in a classic Metallica style seems like such a moronic concept on paper-- but that doesn't mean it can't be hilarious in execution! I don't know who these guys are, but their vocalist's impression of James Hetfield is fucking uncanny, from the extended, wavering delivery of the word 'rye-ayy-ayyde' to the way he ends most lines with a menacing 'yaaaahhhchhh!' The band's technical proficiency and perfect emulation of mid-80s Metallica's Lloyd-Webber Metal go a long way towards making the concept work, but another reason it's so entertaining is that the band has the good sense to take their gimmick beyond the simple, ironic juxtaposition of Lennon/McCartney's bouncy pop hooks and Hetfield/Ulrich's pyrotechnic theatricality.
For one, they give these songs brilliant, mashup-esque titles like 'A Garage Dayz Night', 'Blackened the U.S.S.R.', and 'Got to Get You Trapped Under Ice'. And better yet, on most of the 15 tracks they've made available at their website, Beatallica alter Beatles lyrics to mock Metallica's bombastic metal imagery. In 'The Thing That Should Not Let It Be', the lyrics are combined to form the genius couplet, 'When I find myself in times of trouble/ Hybrid children come to me.' But by far their best performance lies in 'Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning', which, of course, merges two Beatles songs into one 5+ minute thrasher, with both the band and the vocalist's imitation in peak form. Don't tell Bob Rock, but this cleans the floor with St. Anger. [download] | [Ryan Schreiber; April 8th, 2004]"