Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/h5>\n
Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\n
Austin is a hotbed for rock ‘n’ roll and Transit Method<\/a> <\/strong>are one of the city’s rising stars, their proggy take on hard rock and heavy metal giving them a recognizable and fun sound. Having released their latest album, Othervoid<\/em>, in February, Transit Method<\/a> <\/strong>keep the momentum going with a cover of “Set Me Free,” originally by hard rock legends Sweet<\/strong>. <\/p>\n It’s the fiftieth anniversary of “Set Me Free” and the album it was featured on, Sweet Fanny Adams<\/em>. The cover highlights the things that make Transit Method <\/strong>stand out in the first place: twin guitars, vocal harmonies and a slightly off-kilter prog vibe.<\/p>\n Asked why they went with “Set Me Free” and not a better known Sweet <\/strong>song, Transit Method<\/a> <\/strong>explained: <\/p>\n \u201cMost people know Sweet for \u2018Ballroom Blitz\u2019 and \u2018Fox on the Run,\u2019 but they don\u2019t get enough credit as a killer hard rock band. When we listened to \u2018Set Me Free\u2019 as a group, all the elements of a classic Transit Method<\/a><\/strong> song instantly jumped out at us. This is proto-metal at its finest. The twin-lead guitars and operatic vocal harmonies were already there for the taking \u2014 all we had to do was quicken the tempo and inject some weird time signatures to make it our own.\u201d<\/p>\n