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Check out a groove metal reworking of Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie"

by Tyler Munro

Remember Andy Rehfeldt? We first wrote about him years ago when we first stumbled upon his Radio Disney Metal songs. Well, he’s stayed active in the year’s since, reworking Carcass and Deicide songs as pop tracks and turning “House of the Rising Sun” into a death metal track. His latest creation is up top: a thrashy, groove-laden reinterpretation of Justin Timberlake’s “Suit & Tie” carried by JT’s original vocals. It works a lot better than you’d think.

Contrasted with the rolling double bass and frenetic riffs, Timberlake’s falsetto vocals play off as no more left-of-centre than someone like Watchtower’s Alan Tecchio and far more competent in their execution. Most impressively, Rehfeldt doesn’t overdo anything on this rework, keeping the song’s original pace and allowing its original framework to translate. At time he’s let the novelty of re-genrefication take precedence, keeping only the vocal patterns and signature riffs, but this “Suit & Tie” is almost straight transposition right up until its climactic conclusion.