We have heard fairly just a few many AC/DC’s Thunderstruck covers through the years, with the stand-out single from the band’s 1990 album The Razors Edge performed in all kinds of interpretive methods, together with on a stylophone, through a pair of bagpipes, and on conventional Korean devices. There’s been covers by a monk and one other by a child, and it is even been reimagined in types comparable to bluegrass, synth-wave and classical.
Because the solar rises for a brand new day, so too does a brand new Thunderstruck rendition; this one nevertheless, would possibly nicely simply be probably the most enthralling model we have heard but.
Carried out by traditionally-trained musicians NiNi and ZuiKo, each from Taiwan, the duvet sees the pair come collectively to carry out on historical Asian devices in an epic battle: the Shamisen vs the Sanxian.
The Shamisen is a three-stringed historical Japanese instrument derived from the Sanxian, a three-stringed conventional Chinese language lute.
Within the video, which was funded by the musicians’ Patreon members, the duo flex their musical chops as their fingers fly throughout the devices, delivering a efficiency that is absolutely entrancing from begin to end, full with atmospheric chanting and vigorous drumming.
Nini has loads extra rock covers beneath her belt too, with songs by Kiss, Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne and extra obtainable to look at over on her TikTok channel.
Try the Thunderstruck cowl beneath:
