The best covers you've ever heard ..

[The_Witch_King]

The best covers I've ever heard :

Nevermore - The Sound Of Silence ( original by Paul Simon )

Opera IX - Bela Lugosi's Dead ( original by Bauhaus )

Death - Painkiller ( original by Judas Priest )

 

[DoAsISayNotAsIDo]

Metallica's covers are really good(Am I Evil?,Blitzkrieg,The Wait,Breadfan,Overkill)

 

[LSDphilosophy]

sanctuary- white rabbit

others will come to mind in a bit

all of nevermore's covers have been great

 

[jimbobhickville]

Sacred Reich - War Pigs
Overkill - Frankenstein
Nevermore - Sound of Silence - Silent Hedges/Double Dare
Some of the Metallica ones from Garage Days Re-revisited
That's all of the good ones I can think of.

I'd have to say about 80-90% of covers suck. I'd really be perfectly content to never have another cover on any CD I bought.

 

[Neverlady]

In Flames - Everything counts (Depeche Mode)
Sanctuary - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
Queensryche - Gonna get close to you (Lisa Dal Bello)
Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls (entire album)
Chris Caffery & John West - Run to the Hills (Iron Maiden)
Therion - Summernight City (ABBA)

And a lot more....

 

[JannE]

Squealer :-: Enjoy the Silence
Edguy :-: Hymn
Blind Guardian :-: Beyond the Realms of Death

-Janne

 

[Captain Beard]

Nevermore - Sound of Silence
Metallica - Astronomy (Blue Oyster Cult)
Hmmm... I never heard In Flames' cover of "Everything Counts"
Will have to grab it.

 

[Mad Messiah]

Sentenced - House of the rising sun
Guano Apes - Big in Japan

 

[Captain Beard]

Sentenced did house of the rising sun? the Rolling Stones song?
SHIIIIT I GOTTA get that thing!

 

[Jimbo]

One of my personal favorites, though it's hard as hell to find is Iron Maiden covering Jethro Tull's "Cross-eyed Mary." Fucking excellent. Also, though it's uber-obscure, there's a cover of "Dream On" (originally by Aerosmith) with Ronnie James Dio on vocals and Yngwie "Sir Wanks-a-Lot" Malmsteen on guitar. Man, Dio ripped that song up.

 

[Nuclear Knight]

Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust
Flotsam & Jetsam - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Arch Enemy - Aces High


and a ton more.

 

[Poison God]

Cradle of Filth - Hallowed be thy Name
Megadeth - Paranoid
Nevermore - Sound of Silence
Metallica - Breadfan
Sacred Reich - Sweet Leaf
Godsmack - Sweet Leaf
Black Label Society - Snowblind, No More Tears
Sentenced - Digging the Grave
Sepultura - Symptom of the Universe
....

and about 40 others...

 

[swallowyoursoul]

SLAYER- INNA GADDA DE VEDA??!?!?!!?
Nevermore-Love Bites
Motorhead-Louie,Louie
Pantera-The badge
Sepultura-Orgasmatron
Anthrax-The Cowboy Song
Fear Factory-Cars
Megadeth-Mechanix, remixed,re-mastered version........I know it's not really a cover but it's a helluva lot better then "the four horseman"

 

[true light]

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[QuothTheRaven]

Iced Earth - Electric Funeral
Nevemore - Sounds of Silence
Metallica - Garage Days stuff
Sentenced - White Wedding (it's fun)

 

[Mad Messiah]

Originally posted by NoLordy Capone
Sentenced did house of the rising sun? the Rolling Stones song?
SHIIIIT I GOTTA get that thing!

The cover is awesome and the best thing is that Ville is drunk as hell.
By the way, I think Hotrs is an Animal-cover.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

nevermore - hedges/dare
in flames - everything counts
therion - seawinds (originally done by accept)

 

[Neverlady]

Gee, [KOTNO]Narrot, you are right... The Seawinds is fantastic!!! But the original is very good, too, right?....

NoLordy, I don't think that The house of the rising sun was Rolling Stones. It was more The Animals, wasn't it?

 

[Kveldssanger]

Pantera - "Planet Caravan"
In The Woods - "Epitaph"
Type O Negative - "Paranoid"

Oddly I don't like Nevermore's - "Sound Of Silence" that much, maybe because the original was so perfect....

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

nlady>> never heard the accept version...but i hate accept's singer...haha

kveldsblabla....>>rincewind rulez the house!