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9 downvoters who know no jollity, even when it's brought to them.

I'll be honest. I've been a classical musician and a metalhead for most of my life. I came in here kind of ready to be super judgmental in defense of Holst and metal renditions. No defense needed. Especially after hearing the ballad-style interpretation of my favorite movement. Stay metal! \m/

Metal with a rock ballad in the middle. This is so cool.

Nothing short of heroic. I want this played at my funeral.

As requested by several of you, here is another one of the Planets. All of my classical tracks can now be purchased on bandcamp following the links in the description. The cool bastard in the sunglasses is my good friend Mike, who is himself a stellar drummer. You can visit his channel here - kzfaq.info Thank you, and enjoy!

I lost my jaw.

I have always loved Holst's Planets Suite, and I am amazed at your rendition - done with such obvious love and respect for the original/normal treatment. The balance of the various tracks was perfect - bloody well done. Dick Preston

Amazing. Sounds like a mixture of Queen and Yes.

Very, very good indeed. Your attention to detail is very impressive. Whilst others are suggesting different compositions, I would love to hear a continuation of the Planets Suite. Not only do you play them extraordinarily well (speaking as a guitarist of many years and quite envious!), but it would make an awesome album. However, appreciate that it would take a lot of time and effort. Congrats on one of the best 'projects' on KZfaq - and I have seen a huge quantity of them. Excellent job!

Gustav Holst was a genius. 70 years ahead of his time. Masterpiece.

Dude you should finish covering the planets! which might be odd to do for Neptune and Saturn, but that's just my suggestion cause then you'd have the full suite! I've really been liking the stuff of yours I've been listening to as well, very cool.

I've never really liked Heavy metal covers of things much less of classical music. I heard your Mars and Jupiter back to back. I'm happy this exists.

I love how we end up at ska at 1:01

Also, what I really love about your arrangements is that you never water down. Every note I hear in the original, you just perfectly recreate in your versions. The thing is I've watched so many covers of classical music so far that I always expect some missing notes, wrong harmonies etc... but not yours. You never disappoint, because I can see that you actually took (a hell of) time to study the score... Respect.

4:22 That tone is amazing. Sounds like Hammet's "And Justice for All" tone

Oh hell yeah 4:22

The best thing on KZfaq! Genius. Love it. I wish Holst himself could hear it. He would love it too.

I've been waiting for this for so long Edit: Have you thought of putting your stuff on Spotify? I'd love to put your songs in my playlist

This arrangement is fantastic. The number of genres you jump through is just perfect. Keeps it varied and serves the original composition so well. Nice work!

Jupiter us a melody that means too much for me for many reasons, one of them because it was the melody I listened to when I witnessed a total ecipse which was one of the most amazing moments in my life... and this metal cover really ROCKS!!!!!!!!! WELL DONE!!!!

3:00 Oh, that's real nice.

Great interpretation. The sheer musicality of this should bring new fans to Parrish and Holst. Bravo !

Holy mother of God. This may be one of the best things I have ever heard. Jupiter has always been my favourite piece of music, but the precision, epicness, and grandiosity you have captured in this, and the work that has gone into making every second perfect, is beyond words. So much love, bro.

Actually fixating on music is super fun this is so fucking cool. Never would’ve found this otherwise

My God that is what I needed. This is beautiful. You really did pay homage to Holst

Omfg... Literally just made my night..... You are so talented.... And you know people don't appreciate classical.... But omfg biting my lip.... Fucking amazing!!

That’s brilliantly done. You’ve nailed the character of the orchestral instrumentation really well. Fantastic!

Hey, could you try Piano Sonata no. 7 III. Precipitato by Prokofiev? I'd love to see you do it!

When the melody takes off at 4:20, man it literally generates LIFT. Again dude, way to make it absolutely soar.

holy shit joe, you're awesome, your rendition of mars was spot on and this is just as great!

I was waiting so long for thisss

Listening to this again, the end section sounds like a news channel theme

You are a god, me and the lads been loving the mars cover, this is great thanks for the hard work!

This is amazing! Great arrangement

This is absolutely amazing. Incredible work.

Love it man

so good! thank you!

You're absolutely amazing. Loved your arrangements!

amazing! I love it!!!

I fell in love with the planets and I also love metal. This is an amazing recreation of the movement from the suite and I’ve finally found it after searching for at least a year. Amazing job man.

This is AMAZING!

This is one of my favorite covers of all time

OH MY GOD! Best thing I’ve heard in a very long time. Liked & subscribed

One of my favorite classical pieces, thank you!

This is so ridiculously good!!! The arrangement and the combination of guitar tones are so perfect! Well done!

I didn't know I needed this in my life, but I'm glad it is

Man these are perfect

This is crazy good!

3:00 epic feels

Well, this was a totally unexpected and delightful find! Subbed!

Man!! What a great cover!!! Imagine how it would sound with some lyrics!! Awesome cover!! It got me the chills at the end!

Absurdly awesome. 🤘

Amazing

Bravo! Just phenomenal!

¡EPIQUÍSIMO!

I keep coming back to listen to this

This is absolutely amazing, thank you for this.

My favourite movement from The Planets

Fantastic!

Getting a really YES vibe on this one. Keep em coming bro

this is so well done!!!! I've heard SO many versions (classical) of this song and you mirrored my favorite one, by the Chicago Philharmonic, which is just so neat. I love this.

Holy shit, this was absolutely beautiful in every level, I’ve been loving this piece since I played it with the local orchestra of my city ❤️

Such an underrated channel. Love your work!

This is beyond stellar.

Absolutely stellar 🌟

Aaargh... so good

This is an outstanding and excellent rendition of Holst! Great job. Enjoyed listening to this.

This is insane, super great work

Bravo!

Great job again.

Cool. I was gonna ask for this.

Amazing work!!

Thank you for this. It's rare that i feel like i can experience a piece of music that I'm so familiar with for the first time again. You did this for me.

absolutely spectacular arrangement !

Ahhhhhhhh so good! so happy I subscribed!

This is great

It's a travesty this only has 34k views, it's an absolutely phenomenal adaption and played flawlessly! Much respect.

Dude this was awesome - great job!!! 👏

Just f**king awesome!!

Dude awesome!!!!!!!!

Awesome arrangement of a beautiful piece of music! I played this in an orchestra last year, it's cool listening to your arrangement and remembering how fun it was to play! Now to listen to your mars chart!

Magnificent performance, indeed!

You are unbelievably talented! Your Mars rendition is exactly what I was hoping to find when I searched for a metal cover of the piece, and Jupiter gave me chills from the first note

This. Is. Amazing.

NICE!

Speechess, wow, what a choice, what a performance!!! Thank you!!

Yo this was godlike omg

Wow this is amazing

Loving listening to this through nice headphones, great recording and mixing job, reminds me of " ... and justice for all" mixed with Kansas guitar sound.

I never comment on KZfaq, but I needed to for this. That was incredible.

Great stuff! It's a mystery how you don't have more views

Just perfect! couldn't say any more word! This piece of classical music is one of my most favorite, but never heard it with guitar. God bless you, Joe. You're a phenomenon.

That's it. You just earned a subscription to your channel. Hats off from this life-long classical music fan!

please complete the entire Symphony of Planets, you are great at this

Absolutely wicked! What a lovely interpretation this is.

This is nothing short of incredible.

Wow!! This is now my new favorite song!

Wow this is superb, thank you very much. Congrats from Mexico.

Wow, fantastic! Bravo!