CEMETERY SKYLINE UNVEIL GOTHIC TWIST ON "I DROVE ALL NIGHT"
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Melodeath outfit Cemetery Skyline, featuring members of Dark Tranquility, Insomnium, Amorphis, Dimmu Borgir and Sentenced, have shared their cover of the Cyndi Lauper 1989 single "I Drove All Night."
The song was originally written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly for Roy Orbison, but his version was released in 1991.
Santeri shares the story behind this unexpected cover:
“We were in the middle of writing the songs for ‘Nordic Gothic‘ and the tracks were flying back and forth over the Baltic Sea when Markus suddenly come up with the idea to make a cover version of the 80s classic ‘I Drove All Night‘. Some may consider it as a Roy Orbison hit, but back in high school I used to bang my head to the wall with Cyndi Lauper‘s original version.
So as an old fan of the song – I just could not resist the idea. The rest of the band soon joined the excitement to give this classic a new darker crust. I also like to think that Markus’ passion for vintage cars had something to do with the idea to cover a song which is all about manically driving in darkness the whole night. We basically changed the song’s Cadillac to a hearse and all was set.”
Listen to CEMETERY SKYLINE’s eerie take on "I Drove All Night" here.
