I am currently listening to Opeth's cover of Alice in Chains' song "Would?" and am liking it very much. I like it both because it's obviously the original song still, but Opeth puts their own spin on it and even though I'm not a big Opeth fan, it's very refreshing.

CoB's Britney Spears covers makes my friends laugh every time.

Nevermore´s cover of Love bites is one of the better ones, also machine heads cover of hallowed be thy name is good.

-Dont Stop At The Top (Scorpions Cover) by C.O.B.
-Replica (Fear Factory's Cover) by Epica
-The Number Of The Beast (Iron Maiden's Cover) by Iced Earth
-Hollowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden's Cover) by C.O.F.
-Astronomy (Blue Oyster Cult Cover) by Metallica
-Burn In Hell (Twisted Sister's Cover) by Dimmu Borgir
and recently I heard a cover of Metallica's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Moonsorrow which was very nice.

Thunderstone has an awesome cover of Diamonds and Rust. thats one of the cover songs ive been listening to the most recently along with Flotsam and Jetsam's cover of Damage, Inc and Chimaira's cover of Disposable Heroes.

Written by LeChron James on 10.02.2009 at 10:13

Thunderstone has an awesome cover of Diamonds and Rust.

Did Thunderstone cover the original Joan Baez version or the Judas Priest cover?

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.02.2009 at 17:59

Did Thunderstone cover the original Joan Baez version or the Judas Priest cover?

they covered te Priest version. it was very good nonetheless.

This one´s not really a metal song cover, just a metal cover of a song, and I love it, it´s depeche mode´s World in my eyes, by Sonata Artica

I just listened to Unleashed's cover of Breaking the Law. Pretty good but just makes me laugh every time I hear it. I do like Unleashed's cover of Countess Bathory alot though. One of my favorites though would be Decapitated's cover of Mandatory Suicide. Just freaking awesome.

Some other ones I like:

Vader - Flag Of Hate [Kreator]
Vader - Reign in Blood [Slayer]
Dark Tranquility - Bringer of Torture [Kreator]

uhhh, thats all i can think of at the moment due to me being tired. but i know there are more.

Metalium did a great cover of Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple on their 1st album 'Millennium Metal - Chapter One'. Also Check out Helloween's 'Metal Jukebox' album which has some great songs covered by Helloween, from Abba, The Beatles and Scorpions to name but a few.

Well, generally I don't like covers too much, but there are couple of it that sounds kinda good. Among these I would mentioned one, also my favourite one, that sounds just amazing...Metallica's - Nothing Else Matter played by Apocalyptica. It is so simple, slowly and perfectly performanced by these ''cello'' guys . I especially liked it, when they have played this one at Metalcamp last year, infront of 10.000 metalheads. Huh, it was quite emotional and epic atmosphere

To Die For Covered (I Just) Want You [Ozzy Osbourne]
Children of bodom Covered (Bed Of Nails) [Alice Cooper]
Arch Enemy Covered (The Oath) [Kiss cover]
Amon Amarth Covered (Eyes Of Horror) [Possessed cover]

Pantera Covered (Planet Caravan) [Black Sabbath]

Some of these are hard rock covers aswell.

Pantera - Spirit Caravan (Black Sabbath)
Megadeth - Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Iced Earth - City's on Flame with Rock and Roll (Blue Oyster Cult)
Metallica - Breadfan (Budgie)
Skyclad - Emerald (Thin Lizzy)

My Favs

Paranoid (megadeth cover)
(as mentioned Above) Would (Opeth Cover)
Nothing else Matters (apocalyptica Cover)
Tom Sawyer (cover by Mindless Self Indulgence) -dunno if this is considered metal though
Oops I did it again - Bodom Cover - all I can type is ROFL
Bark at the Moon - strung Out Cover. This is really more of a crossover punk/metal cover, but it's just done so freaking well.

Children of Bodom - covering Britney's Opps I Did it Again - fucken hilarious!
Ministry - covering Roadhouse Blues by The Doors

Children of Bodom's Aces High and Silent Scream are two of the best covers I've heard.

In the case of Aces High, I even like it better than the original.

Machine Head also covered Battery really well.

Machine Head did a fantastic version of Hallowed Be Thy Name. I don't know if I prefer theirs or Cradle Of Filth's more, but both are superb covers.

Death did an amazing job with Priest's Painkiller. Chuck Schuldiner sounded frighteningly good. I really did not know Chuck could hit those notes but he did and very well.

Written by Black Mass on 08.03.2009 at 18:44

Machine Head also covered Battery really well.

I also like their version of the Police's Message In A Bottle. I think Machine Head can cover any song and make it sound really good. I can't wait to buy their new cd.

I've always liked Sepulturas cover of Orgasmatron by Motorhead.

Also, Dark Tranquillitys covers of Iron Maidens, 22 Acacia Avenue and Kreators, Bringer of Torture. Both are very well done and not the usual cover songs of the respected bands.

Holy shit Motley Crue's cover of Jailhouse Rock is (at times) the fastest most kickass thing i've ever heard.

I think my absolute favourite cover-song is Iron Maiden - That Girl which was written by one of Adrian Smith's former bandmates.

Bruce Dickinson singing with Montserrat Caballé "Bohemian Rhapsody" is also really awesome.

Machine Head were already mentioned, and I agree...they really rule on covering songs, especially their "Hole In The Sky" version (it's a Black Sabbath cover) is incredible.

Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar also counts to my favourites...It has the "killer-vibe" ^^

Pantera - Cat Scratch Fever also rocks every time I listen to it!

Anacrusis - N.I.B. really cool, got that 80s Thrash Metal touch!

Graveworm's cover of bonnie tyler's song i need a hero is grreat!! i love graveworm's cover songs

Written by Saitenhexerin on 09.04.2009 at 23:06


Anacrusis - N.I.B. really cool, got that 80s Thrash Metal touch!

Anacrusis covering N.I.B.
I have all of their material as orignal LP/cassette/cd and nowhere does it feature a cover of N.I.B.
They did however cover New Model Army's I Love the World which is a totally awesome cover btw.

So please tell me where you found the N.I.B. cover cause I want to hear it.

Written by Saitenhexerin on 09.04.2009 at 23:06


Bruce Dickinson singing with Montserrat Caballé "Bohemian Rhapsody" is also really awesome.

Anacrusis - N.I.B. really cool, got that 80s Thrash Metal touch!

Best cover what Bruce done was All The Young Dudes, Bruce vocals made it powerfulla nd interesting, one of my all time fav songs

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.04.2009 at 14:55

Written by Saitenhexerin on 09.04.2009 at 23:06


Anacrusis - N.I.B. really cool, got that 80s Thrash Metal touch!

Anacrusis covering N.I.B.
I have all of their material as orignal LP/cassette/cd and nowhere does it feature a cover of N.I.B.
They did however cover New Model Army's I Love the World which is a totally awesome cover btw.

So please tell me where you found the N.I.B. cover cause I want to hear it.

I have it its in Suffering Hour last song on album
accordint to MA ''The Anacrusis website has a previously unreleased bonus track available for
download: N.I.B. (4:30). '' and I download that song, but last time when I chacked band home pafe (sone year ago) doanloads was shut down, so if you wanna it PM me, we can figure something out

EDDIT:
Downloads works
http://anacrusis.us/media%20files/MP3/Albums/Albums.html

Written by Bad English on 10.04.2009 at 20:55

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 10.04.2009 at 14:55

Written by Saitenhexerin on 09.04.2009 at 23:06


Anacrusis - N.I.B. really cool, got that 80s Thrash Metal touch!

Anacrusis covering N.I.B.
I have all of their material as orignal LP/cassette/cd and nowhere does it feature a cover of N.I.B.
They did however cover New Model Army's I Love the World which is a totally awesome cover btw.

So please tell me where you found the N.I.B. cover cause I want to hear it.

I have it its in Suffering Hour last song on album
accordint to MA ''The Anacrusis website has a previously unreleased bonus track available for
download: N.I.B. (4:30). '' and I download that song, but last time when I chacked band home pafe (sone year ago) doanloads was shut down, so if you wanna it PM me, we can figure something out

EDDIT:
Downloads works
http://anacrusis.us/media%20files/MP3/Albums/Albums.html

Yes, I found it on their site.
And NO N.I.B. was NEVER released on Suffering Hour. I have that one on LP, cassette & cd and not on a single one is it featured. But apparently it was recorded during the same sessions just never released.

Marcel I understand from MA it was like bonus track for only download wersion of album