Written by MordecaiHexagram on 31.01.2011 at 19:32

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The Berzerker covering All the things She Said by T.A.T.U.

It's fuckin great!

Use (U)BBCode, noob.

Vader did a good job covering Metallica's - Fight Fire With Fire. I actually like it better than the original.

Destruction - Killers (Iron Maiden Cover)
Destruction - Whiplash (Metallica Cover)
Destruction - USA (The Exploited Cover)
Dark Tranquillity - 22 Acacia Avenue (Iron Maiden Cover)
Dark Tranquillity - My Friend of Misery (Metallica Cover)
Hammerfall - My Sharona (The Knack Cover)
Skyclad - Emerald (Thin Lizzy Cover)

Someone already mentioned that Disturbed did a cover a few years ago of Genesis' "Land Of Confusion," but no one has yet mentioned that they also covered "Shout" by Tears For Fears on their debut.

Written by Dangerboner on 24.11.2009 at 05:39

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

Best cover ever in my opinion.

I also like the cover of Battery on Ensiferum's "Iron".

Unleashed covered Breaking the Law, Nuclear Assault covered Good Times, Bad Times, Realm covered Eleanor Rigby, Bondede by Blood covered the TMNT theme song, and Skinless covered Wicked World.

Written by [user id=111774] on 08.03.2011 at 04:43

Unleashed covered Breaking the Law, Nuclear Assault covered Good Times, Bad Times, Realm covered Eleanor Rigby, Bondede by Blood covered the TMNT theme song, and Skinless covered Wicked World.

Yeah, I think I mentionned it before. Good Times Bad Times is really nice!

Vader is one the best cover bands I've ever heard. There original stuff is decent but their covers are awesome. My favorite is their cover of Thin Lizzy's "Angel of Death". A decent song in it's right but made excellent by Vader.

One of the most ridiculous covers I've ever heard is Children of Bodom doing "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky" which was originally done by an archaic Western band (not Country) called The Sons Of The Pioneers. At least I think they are the original band. Johnny Cash's version is probably more famous.

Slayer - Born To Be Wild and Six Feet Under - TNT are the first that come to my mind.

Slayer - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Much better than the original.

Deicide - Black Knight

Carpathian Forest - A Forest (The Cure)

What about the album Revisionnisme by The CNK? It's all composed by covers, including Leonard Cohen, Beastie Boys, Emperor, Rammstein or Guns'n Roses.

I don't if anyone mentioned it so far but Amorphis going macho on Light My Fire. 1000000000x better than the original.

Not a fan of covers generally. But Flotsam and Jetsam's cover of Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting is amazing.

Sort of a plug, but very relevant to the topic.

A couple of friends of mine did a spoof black metal album full of comedy covers. Surprisingly, it sounds really really good, and I'm not just saying that because I know them. [URL=http://bykurius.bandcamp.com/]Here's the Bandcamp link so you can hear some unusual song choices in black metal form.[/URL] (specifically, Alice Cooper, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Judas Priest, Cradle of Filth, Game of Thrones, Metallica, Spinal Tap, a Christmas medley, a LOTR medley, The Phantom of the Opera and Iron Maiden)
They're also in a hair metal pop cover band, but that's slightly less relevant. [URL=https://hairforce1.bandcamp.com/album/hairstrike]Link to more covers in case anyone cares.[/URL]

Besides that album, here are some more of my favourites:
Moonsorrow - For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)
Extol - Shadow of Death (Believer) (not sure if this counts)
Xanthochroid - Harvest (Opeth) (again, not sure if this counts)
Raintime - Beat It (Michael Jackson)
Becoming the Archetype - O Holy Night (Christmas carol)
Graveworm - Gangnam Style (PSY) (yes this happened)
Turisas - Rasputin (Boney M)

I love covers, especially covers with a wildly different style to the original, so this is my kind of thread. Browsing with glee.

Written by Wukk on 20.01.2014 at 11:19

Graveworm - Gangnam Style (PSY) (yes this happened)

Yep, Graveworm is a very "active" band when it comes to making covers.
They also did REM's "Losing my Religion", Pet Shop Boys's "It's a Sin", and Bonnye Tyler's "I need a hero", among others..

This Gangnam Style cover was just an "in concert" thing, or was it released officially somewhere?

Also Bykurius sound pretty good. But I don't know many of the songs there =P

Written by Mattybu on 29.11.2013 at 21:01

I don't if anyone mentioned it so far but Amorphis going macho on Light My Fire. 1000000000x better than the original.

Light My Fire by the Doors?
Better than the original? I doubt that.

Written by king_matt on 23.05.2011 at 01:54

Slayer - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Much better than the original.

No way possible (as much as I like Slayer)

Written by Karlabos on 20.01.2014 at 14:42
This Gangnam Style cover was just an "in concert" thing, or was it released officially somewhere?

As far as I know, just a one-off performance live. But of course, there are loads of videos of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF3uUttvW4w

I don't even like any of the bands on the bill, but if I'd had some kind of vision of the future and known that was going to happen, I'd have got a flight to Holland just for that.

Written by [user id=17278] on 20.01.2014 at 14:53

Written by Mattybu on 29.11.2013 at 21:01

I don't if anyone mentioned it so far but Amorphis going macho on Light My Fire. 1000000000x better than the original.

Light My Fire by the Doors?
Better than the original? I doubt that.

Ya it's waaaaay better bro, that song was just itching to get death metalified

Written by Mattybu on 20.01.2014 at 15:24

Ya it's waaaaay better bro, that song was just itching to get death metalified

LOL
That could make the cover interesting at least. Just the thought of a growl saying "come on baby light my fire", or "girl we couldn't get much higher", or "love becomes a funeral pyre" just makes me laugh. Oh well, tastes...

Exactly, the growling of those lyrics is priceless, but the instrumentation is perfect too

I like Praying Mantis cover of The Kinks *All Day And All Of The Night*
Also I love Anthrax's Covers... always better than the original (Antisocial and Got The Time)
Painkiller by Death is also very good.

Last listened to Alaskan's newest. Fanboying out pretty hard over it.

This version of Rock Me Amadeus is pretty good

Anorexia Nervosa did a great cover of this song:

^Ha!
So they were doing pop covers even before they went to The CNK

Written by Karlabos on 20.07.2014 at 01:26

^Ha!
So they were doing pop covers even before they went to The CNK

Yeah I posted those because you reminded me of them with your CNK post .

I'm more interested in mainstream covers of extreme metal bands.