Absolutely my favorite version of this song! I actually prefer this cover to the original. Demon Kogure certainly knows what he's doing! I really wish His Excellency would have a world tour soon...
I first saw Demon Kakka on Larry King Live back in the early 90's and he impressed me then. Unfortunately, access to non-US entertainment then was difficult and required going through specialist distributors, and I ended up forgetting about him for the better part of two decades. Thanks to the internet I've finally been able to track him and his band, Seikima-II, down, along with a lot of other great Japanese metal bands.It's this kind of cover that really displays the talent of a heavy metal artist. This is one of the two best covers of Bohemian Rhapsody I've seen and the other was done by a bunch of Muppets. :)
Demon Kogure's english is certainly way better from what you usually hear from most japanese singers. He can sing any cover he wants to, if there is anyone i wouldn't mind singing classic songs is him. Also, gotta love his outfit here.
Holy Shmitt. My boyfriend just became addicted to this song a few weeks ago and has been playing it every day...the original, that is! And Kogure-san sings it? *passes out* This is AWESOME.
katharine xoxo Wrong, he is actually very good at speaking english, however... he's not very good at singing in english because of his way to exaggerate the pronouncing of english words... And I get that noone should do a cover of any Queen song sins its against the unwritten law of doing so.. despite that, demon kogure is still one of my favorite singers of all time (when he sings in japanese) :)
Freddie would be impressed as hell that someone would attempt to perform the whole thing live. He never did that. The operatic section was always done from tape.
I completely agree with you. I was so surprised to see the other dk-version Bohemian Rhapsody received quite a few of negative comments. Personally I like it a lot.
What the f**k! Demon Kogure really is great. I saw his other version of The Bohemian Rhapsody and it wasn't so good. I don't mean he sung bad, but the instruments were bad. This version though, was wonderful. Really.