Listen to Priests Turn Danzig into Disco on New Cover Of "Mother"

Post-punk rules. No other genre could get away with half of what it does, and if you need any proof, just look to Priests’ new cover of Danzig’s “Mother” for Amazon Music.

The D.C. rockers turn the formerly metal tune into a goth dance track, flipping the original’s riffs into a sensual four-on-the-floor disco groove. Over heavily processed horns, singer Katie Alice Greer absolutely owns Glenn Danzig’s vocals on this, starting soft and building to the all-out wails found on the original track.

The band explain in a statement how they conceived of their version: “We thought we’d tease this out a little more in our cover by re-imagining it with a ‘Let’s Dance’ era Nile-Rogers-producing-Bowie kind of glamour.” Well, that’s definitely what came through here. If you’re wondering more about the thought process behind the cover, the band lay it out nicely here:

I made a diagram on the back of this cvs receipt. For science pic.twitter.com/HDIVPCf2E7
— P R I E S T S (@PRIESTS_TWEET) June 7, 2019

Priests are about to go on tour in support of April’s great The Seduction of Kansas. Check out what we had to say about that album here, and find their tour dates just below. You can listen to “Mother” via Amazon Music here.

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Listen to Priests Turn Danzig into Disco on New Cover Of “Mother”