Trivium cover Dead Kennedy's "Kill The Poor"

All systems go to kill the poor tonight

Heavy metal band Trivium have been releasing bonus and unreleased tracks over the past few months. The songs have come from the recording sessions for their 2017 album The Sin and the Sentence. They've released a few unreleased originals and recently released a pretty faithful cover of the Type O Negative track "I Don't Wanna Be Me". The band have now released their similarly faithful cover of the Dead Kennedy's 1980 single "Kill the Poor".

The original was featured on the Dead Kennedy's debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, released in September of 1980 on Cherry Red Records and Jello Biafra's own Alternative Tentacles (the noted label's first full length release). The album features noted DK tracks "California Über Alles" and "Holiday in Cambodia".

Trivium's cover is pretty spot on and doesn't deviate from the original, but it doesn't quite capture the wildly fluctuating vocal tone that Jello Biafra is known for. Still. A good cover nonetheless. Check it out above.