You people are not hardcore enough.
You know, I've never actually viewed music like that as "hardcore". It always just sounds like a bunch of posers getting together to sound
REALLY ANGRY 'CAUSE IT'S AWESOME! Yes, so they play a kind of music that very few other people can imitate, but so do Flamenco guitarists. And to me it just sounds like they're overbalancing on one side of the quality/quantity scale.
To me, something doesn't have to
sound hardcore so much as it has to
feel hardcore. I particularly like songs that are really quite melodic and "mild" on the outside, but that positively seethe with emotional energy. Growled lyrics just sound like someone with intestinal problems to me.
I've known a few death-metalheads, and they say you eventually just get used to the growling. I maintain that I'd have to listen to it in the first place in order to get used to it. It's just not my style of music. I do recognize that they're highly skilled individuals in order to be able to play like that, but it's just not something I want to listen to.
But yes, that was a very good cover of Bad Company.
Mostly, I listen to classical music (symphonies, violin solos, etc.), Chinese opera, some OSTs, and a bunch of traditional music (Peruvian, blueglass, etc.). Also some French ... pop, I guess? I don't know what Daniel Lavoie counts as, now that he's 65 or something. And stuff by Chitose Hajime ("island singing" in the Ryuku style).
Okay, now you're scaring me.