When Kane stopped using "Slow Chemical"...

[Burst]

...And went back to the instrumental theme, why'd they get rid of the main melody riff that'd been there since he debuted?

That's my main complaint with "Man on Fire", that and the fact that the part that used to be the intro-before-the-pyro now starts after the pyro. While it still sounds impressive live, on TV and just listening to it by itself it sounds so much wimpier than "Burned" or "Out of the Fire". I'll still never understand why they didn't just revert back to one of those or remix it more directly.

Was there something that said they had to cede the rights to the riff to Finger Eleven or something?

[flatsdomino]

I think it just went with his character change in '08 - the "IS HE ALIVE OR DEAD" psycho heel run (we're not going to talk about what it lead to) where he was briefly a sadistic monster as opposed to a lumbering, destructive brute. So something more Phantom of the Opera-like fit what they were doing/wanted to do with him. It's a little more like Undertaker's theme so that too.

[Alex Shelley]

I was actually thinking about making a thread about this last night. It feels like that riff has been gone for way longer than it has, to me. I never understood why they got rid of it.

[Chiral]

They should have used that one they were going to use in 2003. I forget what it's called.

[flatsdomino]

Sept 19, 2010 21:12:24 GMT -5 Chiral said:

They should have used that one they were going to use in 2003. I forget what it's called.

The Type O Negative song?

[Ginger Beer Man]

Sept 19, 2010 21:14:40 GMT -5 flatsdomino said:

Sept 19, 2010 21:12:24 GMT -5 Chiral said:

They should have used that one they were going to use in 2003. I forget what it's called.

The Type O Negative song?

Type O FTW!

[Chiral]

Sept 19, 2010 21:14:40 GMT -5 flatsdomino said:

Sept 19, 2010 21:12:24 GMT -5 Chiral said:

They should have used that one they were going to use in 2003. I forget what it's called.

The Type O Negative song?

Yes, that one.

[Kevin's Thorn]

The main riff is gone, but the chord progressions are identical. It's not like they could've done any better with the melody than what Slow Chemical accomplished, anyways.

[Soultastic]

I still want him to use Diamond Head's Am I Evil? as his entrance music.

[TheDieselTrain]

Sept 19, 2010 21:30:35 GMT -5 Chiral said:

Sept 19, 2010 21:14:40 GMT -5 flatsdomino said:

The Type O Negative song?

Yes, that one.

I have never heard of this. I just youtubed it and damn thats a sick ass theme. I wasnt expecting a lyrical but I'm glad they went with Slow chemical though. Thats a legendary song imo.

[El Hijo De Slapnuts]

Sept 19, 2010 22:01:04 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

I still want him to use Diamond Head's Am I Evil? as his entrance music.

The lyrics fit him,are we using the Diamond Head version,or the MEtallica version,because I think the DH veion is superior

[Soultastic]

Sept 19, 2010 22:43:31 GMT -5 El Hijo De Slapnuts said:

Sept 19, 2010 22:01:04 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

I still want him to use Diamond Head's Am I Evil? as his entrance music.

The lyrics fit him,are we using the Diamond Head version,or the MEtallica version,because I think the DH veion is superior

The far superior (and probably cheaper) DH original version, of course.

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What I want to know is why he dropped Slow Chemical in the first place. WWE still has the rights to it - it's on the Elimination Chamber set.