Metal covers of pop and other songs

[Pellaz]

Surprised no-one's mentioned Therion's cover of "Summernight City" by ABBA.....

 

[Undershadow]

Skyclad - Come On Eileen (can't remember who the hell does the original)
That was Dexy's Midnight Runners..........

 

[TXHOSER]

Sonata Arctica's cover of Still Loving You is great.
Also, Queesryche's Scarbourough Fair.
Metallica's Last Caress/Green Hell, Stone Cold Crazy, Breadfan, pretty much anything they touched in the eighties turned to gold.
I found a pretty cool cover of Ronnie J. Dio and Yngwie J. Malmsteen doing Aero J. Smith's Dream On. It was on Napster so I don't know where it come from originally.
And of course...Judas Priest's Diamonds and Rust originally by Joan Baez.
That's all for now.

 

[Tenfen]

Savage Circus - Ça Plane Pour Moi (Plastic Bertrand)

 

[Regor]

I've made a whole CD of this kinda shit and called it "The Best Of Heavy Metal Covers - Vol. 1"

1. Black Sabbath's Paranoid by Megadeth
2. Cheech & Chong's Earache My Eye by Korn w/Cheech Marin
3. Alice Cooper's I'm Eighteen by Creed
4. Alice Cooper's School's Out by Sevendust
5. Cream's White Room by Demons & Wizards
6. Rainbow's Man On The Silver Mountain by HammerFall
7. Peter Gabriel's Shock The Monkey by Coal Chamber w/Ozzy
8. Golden Earring's Radar Love by White Lion
9. Billy Idol's White Wedding by Sentenced
10. KC & The Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man by White Zombie
11. George Michael's Faith by Limp Bizkit (yeah yeah I find it hillarious!)
12. New Order's Blue Monday by Orgy
13. Ted Nugent's Cat Scratch Fever by Pantera
14. Gary Numan's Cars by Fear Factory w/Gary Numan
15. The Police's Message In A Bottle by Machine Head
16. Seals & Crofts' Summer Breeze by Type O Negative
17. Bob Seger's Turn The Page by Metallica
18. Tear For Fears' Shout(2000) by Disturbed

Since then, I've found great covers to make a Vol 2 (but haven't made it yet)
In Flames & Disturbed both did Land of Confusion by Genesis
Demons & Wizards did Immigrant Song by Led Zep
(I cant think of the rest)

 

[Metal Zealot]

Angra's cover of Zep's "Kashmir" kicks my ass...Masterplan's cover of "Black Dog" is killer too.
Jorn's cover of Thin Lizzy's "Are You Ready" is good.
Mnemic's cover of Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" is wicked.
Angel Dust covers Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" is decent.

Jorn's Starfire have several great covers on it...

Edge of the Blade (Journey)
Break It Up (Foriegner)
Burn (Deep Purple)

 

[Mosquito]

In Flames - Everything Counts (Depeche Mode)
Angel Dust - Spotlight Kid (Rainbow)
Angel Dust - Easy Livin' (Uriah Heep)
Nightingale - Return To Fantasy (Uriah Heep)
Vintersorg - Rainbow Demon (Uriah Heep)
Blind Guardian - The Wizard (Uriah Heep)
Blind Guardian - Traveller In Time (Uriah Heep)
Blind Guardian - Surfin USA (Beach Boys)
Blind Guardian - Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)
Blind Guardian - Mr. Sandman (The Chordettes)
Blind Guardian - Spread Your Wings (Queen)
Helloween - The Metal Jukebox (Just a bunch of covers on that album)
Edge Of Sanity - Invisible Sun (The Police)
Vader - Angel Of Death (Thin Lizzy)
Tad Morose - Rainbow Demon (Uriah Heep)
Children Of Bodom - Oops I Did It Again (Britney Spears)
Mercenary - Music Non Stop (Kent)
Amorphis - Light My Fire (The Doors)
Gamma Ray - Return To Fantasy (Uriah Heep)

there's a ton more of course...

 

[VeganSupremacy]

Mosquito was right we are supposed to be just talking about pop or rock covers.

Here are a couple that I forgot:

Norther covering The Offspring "Smash"

black metal band Carpathian Forest covered The Cure "A Forest"

 

[Magius]

Mundanus Imperium- Stargazer (Rainbow)
W.A.S.P.- Easy Livin' (Uriah Heep)

 

[guardian26]

Another favorite of mine Vanden Plas covered was Kayliegh by Marillion.


GREAT COVER!

 

[Mosquito]

I assumed we were avoiding covers of metal songs and were just sticking to pop or classic rock type stuff?

 

[J-Dubya 777]

I assumed we were avoiding covers of metal songs and were just sticking to pop or classic rock type stuff?

I believe you are correct. Read the post from home and am replying from work. Will delete my post.....just ignore me.....

J-Dubya

 

[Burkhard]

Megadeth - "These Boots..." (Nancy Sinatra)
Voivod - "Astronomy Domine" (Pink Floyd)
The Gathering - "In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated" (Dead Can Dance) - not exactly turned into a metal song, but The Gathering were still a metal band when they did this cover
Mekong Delta - "Pictures At An Exhibition" (Mussorgsky)
Mekong Delta - "Night On A Bare Mountain" (Mussorgsky)
Nightwish - "Walking In The Air" (theme from "The Snowman" - don´t know the name of its composer)
Midnattsol - "Tapt av håp" (music of the original theme of "Solveigs Sang" by Edward Grieg)
Coroner - "Der Mussolini" (DAF)

np: Gåte - "Kjærleik (live)"

 

[Mosquito]

I believe you are correct. Read the post from home and am replying from work. Will delete my post.....just ignore me.....

J-Dubya

You could've left it up there man, wasn't a big deal. : )

 

[J-Dubya 777]

You could've left it up there man, wasn't a big deal. : )

Far be it for ME to contribute to the further delinquency of this thread!



J-Dubya

 

[Meanmistreator]

Hey how about, Lion Share doing "Touch of Evil" - JP or I'm surprised no one has said After Forever doing "The Evil That Men Do" IM. Can somebody jog my memory, but did Magnatude Nine do IM "Flight of Icarus"?

Rock on my brothers and sisters!

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime II (maybe they should of did an ABBA cover to liven it up, oh well no one is really surprised)

 

[adaher]

If you want to talk about really unusual covers, has any other power or prog band covered a contemporary? I'm referring to Sonata Arctica covering a Vanishing Point song.

That would be like Pagan's Mind doing End of Light or something.

 

[ravage2020]

GReat stuff!!! Keep em coming, I to am making a cd (data lol) and am looking for cool, cheesy pop covers although IM gonna include all the ones I can find.

As to Vision Divine doing take on me,, it rocks, found it on soulseek...

thanks again for the recommendations!!!!!

 

[J-Man]

NIGHTWISH does a lot of cover songs and does they great.

Phamtom of the Opera
Walking in the Air
Crimson Tide
Symphony of Destruction
Crazy Train
Beauty and the Beast
Over the Hills and far Away

 

[LunaTEKKE]

Not sure this counts as "mainstream", but Iron Maiden recorded Jethro Tull's "Cross-Eyed Mary" and released it as the b-side of a single in the late 80s/early 90s. I had it on cassette at one point -- wish I could find it again!