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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Matt Mills

Ever wanted to hear Blink-182, Creed and Chris Stapleton hail Satan? This guitarist is turning pop-punk, country and classical songs into black metal riffs

Zachary Ezrin of Imperial Triumphant unmasked, Mark Hoppus onstage in 2006 and Scott Stapp onstage in 1999.

Imperial Triumphant singer/guitarist Zachary Ezrin has started a new series of Instagram videos where he transposes beloved pop-punk, country and classical songs into a minor key and makes them sound like black metal songs.

The musician has spent the past week uploading his transformative covers, which kicked off with a minor-scale take on the classical piece Ode To Joy, written by Friedrich Schiller and famously used by Ludwig Van Beethoven.

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