Metal loves Abba

In honor of seeing Mamma Mia on Broadway today, I would like to honor the surprisingly large amount of links between the band Abba and metal.   Well, first off there is the London based metal Abba cover band, Abbatoir .  They really aren't great at all, but I could see it being pretty fun if you are really drunk it's live. Here's 'Voulez Vous' live:Also, back in 2001 Metal Blade Records released a compilation album that was various metal bands covering Abba.  I actually own this cd (god knows why) because its awesome.

The songs on that album were all the biggies for Abba, but the bands were pretty obscure.  I would say Tad Morose and Therion were probably the biggest names on that album, so you can take that as you will.

The list of covers really does go on forever (Doro Pesch, Black Ingvars, The Black Sweden, Harem Scarem, The Rasmus and honestly so many more ) but the best one I have found is Yngwie Malmsteen's cover of 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight'.  Mr. M made a few changes to some lyrics, but it's basically the same on that end.  As for the melody itself, it's still the same melody but its made METAL!!!!  It's powerful and heavy, and all that shit.  If you want to get technical than you will noticed Yngeiw plays an arpeggiated version of the main theme & added guitar solos in the instrumental bridge (how could he not?!). 

Anyway, this is the piste de résistance of this stupid awesome Abba post, so enjoy: