Smash Mouth Tackled Slipknot’s “Duality” in Studio—and Lived to Tell About It

THE DROP

Smash Mouth recorded a studio cover of Slipknot's "Duality," and the whole thing was tracked in a single three-hour session ^†. Music education company Musora set the band the challenge, and the footage went up on YouTube ^†.

WHAT TO KNOW

• Smash Mouth covering Slipknot is the headline, and yes, it is real ^*, ^†.
• Tracked in the studio, not live, and finished inside one three-hour session ^†.
• The challenge came from music education company Musora, so the speed is the point ^†.
• Metal Injection's write-up could not resist the obvious joke: "Somebody once pushed my fingers in to my eyes…." ^*
• The current Smash Mouth lineup, including who sang it, has not been identified in either report ^*, ^†.

THE TAKE

A three-hour turnaround on "Duality" is a genuine test, that song lives or dies on the drum pocket and a vocalist who can scream the chorus without wheezing. The interesting part is not the novelty, it is whether a band known for radio pop can land Jay Weinberg era percussion under studio pressure.

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