I'm putting together a little music quiz and part of it is guessing pop/rock/mainstream songs covered by extreme metal bands. I've only got a couple so far and I'm hoping you can suggest some more. It cannot be clean vocals since that makes it too easy. I'm looking for cookie monster/growl vocals.

Thanks in advance!

• Ten Masked Men - Cry Me a River (and every other cover song they do)
  
• In Flames - Everything Counts
  

I'm Not Jesus - Behemoth
Hello Spaceboy - Behemoth
Somebody Put Something In My Drink - covered by Children Of Bodom and Red Harvest

Oops I did it Again by Britney Spears, covered by COB
All the Things She Said by TaTu, covered by The Berzerker

Written by SerratedSyringe on 24.11.2009 at 05:03


All the Things She Said by TaTu, covered by The Berzerker

Hadn't heard about that one but it's great. Here's one I like a lot: I need a Hero covered by Graveworm. I love these guys covers.

Grave covered Them Bones by Alice in Chains. I played that album without knowing they covered that song, and when I first heard it it took me a couple seconds to figure it out, so I think that would be a good choice. The guitar solo totally gives it away though hehe

Written by SerratedSyringe on 24.11.2009 at 05:03


All the Things She Said by TaTu, covered by The Berzerker

I was gonna suggest that one! haha

Dimmu Borgir - Metalheart (Accept cover)
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell (twisted Sister cover)
Behemoth - Wish (NIN cover)
Angelblake - Paint it Black (Rolling Stones cover) or was it Sympathy for the Devil? either way it was a Rolling Stones song...
Six Feet Under has a whole album of nothing but covers. It's called Graveyard Classics...just pick a song lol
Slayer - In A Godda Da Vida (Iron Butterfly cover) ...not exactly growling but it isn't crisp singing either.

Written by MetallicA on 24.11.2009 at 21:09

Behemoth - Wish (NIN cover)

Behemoth covering NIN?! I must hear this.

Written by MetallicA on 24.11.2009 at 21:09


Six Feet Under has a whole album of nothing but covers. It's called Graveyard Classics...just pick a song lol

Just a shame that all those cover are totally crap.

Here's some I know of...

Iced Earth - Highway To Hell
Iced Earth - Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
In Flames - Land Of Confusion (Genesis)
Nevermore - The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
Machine Head - Message In A Bottle (The Police)
Anthrax - Bring The Noise (Public Enemy)
Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
Korn - Word Up (Cameo)

I just remembered Melechesh covered the song 'Gyroscope', by The Tea Party. Really cool cover of a really cool song.

Written by tulkas on 24.11.2009 at 05:36

Written by SerratedSyringe on 24.11.2009 at 05:03


All the Things She Said by TaTu, covered by The Berzerker

Hadn't heard about that one but it's great. Here's one I like a lot: I need a Hero covered by Graveworm. I love these guys covers.

I find that cover really bad, but thy have done a cover of REM's Losing My Religion which is quite good and amusing. Another IMO bad by them is their cover of The Police - Message In A Bottle

Thanks for all the suggestions! That helps a lot!

Anthrax did Cheap Tricks Auf Wiedersehen.
Local band here called Slow Children do "Like a Virgin" at all their shows

Cradle of Filth covered Hallowed be Thy Name

I know Iron Maiden aren't "mainstream pop" though lol

Stormlord covered Metallica's Creeping Death!
Oh no, i just classified my favourit band, Metallica, as mainstream...

I highly recomend the album The Anatomy Of... by Between The Buried And Me it is a whole album of covers.

Also, someone mentioned In Flames before, but did not list their cover of Genesis' "Land of Confusions" which was also covered a few years ago by Disturbed.

Diablo - Dancing queen (Abba)

I heard this in live first, it was a big surprise at the end of the gig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-7yRJwN2s

There's a good one by Ensiferum.. They'd covered Lady in Black of Uriah Heep. Actually in my opinion it was somehow better than the original version.
And also Fear Factory have done a very good cover of Killing Joke's Millenium. Fear Factory is good at covering songs.. Gary Numan's Car and Nirvana's School are two other good covers by them..

What about Mike Oldfield's Over The Hills And Far Away covered by Thyrfing?

Written by Ellrohir on 29.11.2009 at 14:20

What about Mike Oldfield's Over The Hills And Far Away covered by Thyrfing?

And Mike Oldfield's was already a cover
Over The Hills And Far Away is atradiotnal, and Gary Moore's version is probably the best known since that one became a huge hit.

Sorry, my bad then...

but it reminded me a situation when one guy tried to point on Mago De Oz "covering" (or even stealing) from Edguy with their "Manana Empieza Hoy", which is musically similar to Edguy's song Hymn...but the problem was, that Hymn is actually a cover of 70ties Ultra Vox work

Btw doing a search and Mike Oldfield never recorded it. Btw Thyrfing's cover is based on Gary Moore's version just like Nightwish based it on that one

Deicide recorded Deep Purple's Black Night, though with altered lyrics... Human did a version of Judas Priest's Breaking the Law but they're a pretty local band.

Both Necrophobic and Stormlord did Iron Maiden's Moonchild. The Black Dahlia Murder and a bunch of similar bands did Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones.

Death recorded KISS' God of Thunder, Mastodon covered Thin Lizzy's Emerald and Coroner did Jimi's Purple Haze and I Want You (She's So Heavy) by the Beatles, but I'm not sure how extreme these are. I thought Coroner also did a Cream cover but it seems I was mistaken.

On top of Six Feet Under's Graveyard Classics covers albums, you can see [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=660]the one[/url] by Entombed. Here the original artists aren't listed so maybe check it on http://www.metal-archives.com

edit - of course, Gojira's great cover of Metallica's Escape which was listenable on their myspace last time I checked

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 29.11.2009 at 14:29

Btw doing a search and Mike Oldfield never recorded it.

then i must switched it in my head with something... my bad again

You might wanna check the Cover It Up volume 1&2 albums. They both feature more or less metal bands doing poppy covers and you can deciede for yourself what fits into the cathegory you're looking for.

I know a whole bunch of covers, but they're mainly done by non-extreme metal bands.

And oh, Theatres Des Vampires did a remake on Kylie's Minogue Can't Get You Out Of My Head and re-named it Can't Get You Out Of My Grave and on Anima Noir they did a cover of The Cult's The Rain.

Michael Jackson's "Beat it" from the greek band Inactive Messiah!

Written by VaronoZz on 30.11.2009 at 01:26

Michael Jackson's "Beat it" from the greek band Inactive Messiah!

I prefer the Raintimecover. NO ONE WANTS TO BE DEFEATED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObSwvfQcjg

Covers go to extreme lengths

Written by Angelic Storm on 24.11.2009 at 22:05

Here's some I know of...

Iced Earth - Highway To Hell
Iced Earth - Don't Fear The Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
In Flames - Land Of Confusion (Genesis)
Nevermore - The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
Machine Head - Message In A Bottle (The Police)
Anthrax - Bring The Noise (Public Enemy)
Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
Korn - Word Up (Cameo)

That Nevermore cover is absolutely brilliant.

Written by BloodTears on 06.12.2009 at 15:55
That Nevermore cover is absolutely brilliant.

It is! I also think their cover of Judas Priest's "Love Bites" is immense!