LISTEN: Metallica Parody Song Written By A Bot

Youtuber Funk Turkey is back with the same program that wrote an AC/DC parody song, as well as Nickelback and Red Hot Chili Peppers tunes, has now taken on Metallica.

My request list for bot songs is so long now that, if I did a fully produced song and video every week, I still wouldn’t get them all done by the end of the year. pic.twitter.com/GVhjtUaasd

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Funk Turkey, AKA Kirt Connor, had this to say about the process: “Using lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database, I made a Markov Chain write Metallica lyrics. This is the end result- ‘Deliverance Rides’. All music/vocals performed, mixed, and mastered by me, in my kitchen, on a couple of cheap guitars, a crappy mic, and an old copy of ProTools. All lyrics provided by the ROBOTS THAT WANT TO RULE US ALL (AKA lyrics.rip).”

 

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Working on other parts of the MetallicAI thing, in this case, cover and thumbnail art. The idea of nuclear powered cyborg rockstars singing computer-generated nonsense while shooting lasers out of their eyes seems to fit so far, so I’m going to keep going with that.

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He continues with, “I tried to get a sound somewhere between the “Master of Puppets” album and the “Black” album. Lars’ drum sound is quite hard to get right without spending a lot of money (or, in some cases, buying a trash can). Guitars are multitracked a LOT.”

Here is Funk Turkey’s Metallica bot song ‘Deliverance Rides’.