The Energon Pub

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 9:39 am

Gaumer of Outrightgeekery.com has shared with us a teaser from none other than Ernie Burns Petrangelo, the guitarist of band NRG, the culprits behind Instruments of Destruction, teasing some possible new Transformers: The Movie music (inspired by? a remastering? a tribute?) in occasion of the 30th anniversary of the animated feature from 1986 - along with Doug Aldrich, Mark Boals and more. Check out the short clip below, and let us know what you make of it in the Energon Pub!

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:16 pm

Wow. Mark Boals, and Doug Aldrich. These are guys with some real Hard Rock history that's probably lost on the average TF fan.

by **Ultra Markus** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:39 pm

so then maybe a new version of lions transformers theme ;)^

News Credits: 3 · by **Samsonator** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:17 pm

I am more than okay with this.

Like steve2275 on Facebook · by **steve2275** » Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:39 pm

sounds great

News Credits: 149 · by **Big Grim** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:15 am

If we're getting more excellent music like Instruments of Destruction (or even just a new version of said track), then I approve wholeheartedly!

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:59 am

We reported a teaser from Ernie Burns back here, in which a new version of the 1986 movie Instruments of Destruction was announced - we now have, thanks to Seibertronian xRotorstormx, the new remastered clip, featuring Doug Aldritch, Mark Boals, Larry Aberman and more. Check out the clip below!

Doug Aldrich – guitar (Whitesnake, Dio, Dead Daisies, Lion),
Mark Boals – vocals (Yngwie J. Malmsteen),
and Larry Aberman – drums (Jimmy and Stevie Ray Vaughn ‘Family Style’, David Lee Roth)
have joined together with Ernie “Burns” Petrangelo (N.R.G.) to release a special 30th anniversary edition of “Instruments Of Destruction” from the original “The Transformers, The Movie” soundtrack.

Transformers Generation One fans will remember that Doug’s band Lion was featured on the original soundtrack released in 1986 performing The Transformers theme song.

The completely transformed version of Instruments Of Destruction is available now!
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/instr ... 159810593#
CDbaby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/machineregime2

A high quality wav file is available here: http://www.nimbitmusic.com/machineregime

Like steve2275 on Facebook · by **steve2275** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:22 am

while i love the music
im not that keen on the vocals

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 3:42 am

Not bad, the beginning needs some work but overall it was pretty good.

News Credits: 9 · by **Rainmaker** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:04 am

I loved Instruments of Destruction but this version seems off in some way...

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 4:47 am

I cringe every time I hear this piece. The massacre in the shuttle..........

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 5:15 am

Always thought it was "Iron Birds of Fortune"

huh.

Wait it WAS. I'm not crazy am I? Like, is it me, or have the lyrics been changed into overtly sexual ones :lol:

?

Edit: Oh okay. I looked into it, and itmakes more sense to me now. I still prefer the lyrics of the movie version though.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 7:16 am

Dumb that it was the inferior, over sexualized version that they decided to redo rather than the superior and infinitely more popular movie version.

Emerje

News Credits: 149 · by **Big Grim** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:37 am

Gotta admit, the changes to the lyrics here do nothing for me and took me quite by surprise! To be expected I suppose. I've been listening to the movie version since it came out!

by **Deathastator2212** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 10:49 am

Awful lyrics, awful soundmixing, aweful voice. Sorry.

by **necr0blivion** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:01 am

Other than changing the lyrics, I'm not sure what makes this different than the version on the soundtrack. I'm such a fan of the OST version, this just feels like a bad live recording.

News Credits: 144 · by **xRotorstormx** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 1:07 pm

I would like to make note that the lyrics were not changed *technically*

A few years back Ernie was at Botcon selling the NRG2 album with unreleased material from the 80s. This is the original unedited version of Instruments of Destruction and the lyrics were changed for the TFTM (for obvious reason) ..

Hey man it was the 80s! :DANCE:

* If you like hair metal .. I suggest you pick up the NRG2 album if you can still find it.

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 8:23 pm

This is a solid early/mid 80's line up. It's funny, Mark Boals was hired by Yngwie and his first appearance was in the the video for "I'll See The Light Tonight" but he didn't sing the song; it was the original vocalist, Jeff Scott Soto. Lyrics are pure 80's sleaze, never knew it was the original. There might be a copyright issue preventing the use of the original lyrics.

by **Ultra Markus** » Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:32 pm

i always imagined that song as megatrons theme song ;)^

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 1:38 am

It's a shame that this isn't available on Amazon

News Credits: 144 · by **xRotorstormx** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:20 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:It's a shame that this isn't available on Amazon

The NRG album? Just stumbled upon this... I've got two copies myself

http://burnsongs.com/

News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:09 pm

xRotorstormx wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:It's a shame that this isn't available on Amazon

The NRG album? Just stumbled upon this... I've got two copies myself

http://burnsongs.com/

I meant the track. I use Amazon music so it would be great to have the digital copy across platforms.