Inter Arma recently announced their covers album Garbers Days Revisited with covers of both Neil Young and Nine Inch Nails classics. Now they're tackling the Prince classic "Purple Rain" and it absolutely rules, though they never meant for anyone to hear it in the first place.
"This was never meant to be heard publicly. It was meant to be outrageous- to be played late at night while laughing and drinking beer with our friends. Because that’s what this is: Inter Arma covering the greatest pop song of the 1980s, and arguably of all time, by Prince, who HATED when people covered his music.
"The vocals were done in one take by the drummer and not pitch-corrected, because who else can sing like that? Prince. So we opted to stay honest and simple because we never thought that the general public would hear it. Once Relapse heard it there was a little bit of back and forth between the two camps and it was decided, reluctantly, to be included on the record.
"We hope everyone enjoys this and gets a little bit of a chuckle because I think we could all use that right about now. Stay safe, stay outrageous, BLM."
Pre-order Garbers Day Revisited here before it's released on July 10.
