Canadian post-hardcore band Silverstein has premiered their cover of Green Day's song "The Ballad of Wilhem Fink" on AltPress.com this past week. This track is apart of Silverstein's upcoming "Short Songs" album which will consist of only songs that are under 90 seconds.

Originally, Billie Joe contributed this song to the compilation album Short Music for Short People which was released in June 1999. You can listen to Billie Joe's original recording of the song on YouTube by clicking here.

You can listen to Silverstein's version of the song over on AltPress.com by clicking here. Original Green Day lyrics can be found and an Amazon link to buy the song can be found here.

Thanks to Drew, Minority_GD, and Kelsey for sending this news.
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