what's your favorite coversong?

[piratehooker]

Miss May I's cover of Swing, i usually dont love the metalcore covers of rap songs but it was pretty cool. and Anaal Nathrakhs cover of DMDS is pretty fucking great.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Emperor - A Fine Day to Die
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire
Dissection - Antichrist
Dissection - Elisabeth Bathori
Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell

 

[logchick]

i don't know about favorite but i've always liked GNR- Knockin' on heaven's door

Awesome choice! They did such a sweet cover of that tune!
I actually love it even better than the original

 

[Yula]

I am not a big fan of covers but.....

-Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Guns N' Roses

-Out on the Tiles by Megadeth (it is nothing special but I like it)

-Dream On by Dio and Malmsteen

and two songs from my country:

-'Plan B' by Catupecu Machu (original from a pop band called Massacre, also because that was the last good thing Catupecu Machu did)

-'Route 66' in spanish version by Pappo (a guitar legend from Argentina, this particular cover is sort of a classic here)

 

[D_Vincent]

You Really Got Me

 

[evai]

Avantasia's cover of ABBA - lay all your love on me.. I've never listened to avantasia before but that cover is just cool

 

[chthomelot]

Painkiller (Judas Priest)- by Chthonic
Paint it Black (Rolling Stones)- The Black Dahlia Murder
Take on Me (Aha)- Northern Kings... this song was so awesome it made me cry... i swear
Replica (Fear Factory)- Epica
Black Diamond (Stratovarius)- Galneryus

 

[NiceDirtyDay]

Rise Against - Anyway You Want It (Journey)
Dark Tranquillity - 22 Acacia Avenue (Iron Maiden)
Arch Enemy - Incarnated Solvent Abuse (Carcass)
Evergreen Terrace - Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
Evergreen Terrace - The Kids Aren't Alright (The Offspring)
Stormlord - Creeping Death (Metallica)
Between the Buried and Me - Three of a Perfect Pair (King Crimson)
Between the Buried and Me - Blackened (Metallica)

 

[Lugreech]

Dark tranqullity my friend of misery -Metallica
All the apocalyptica and string quartet tribute covers

And...Hate me if you want but I like more this versions than the originals:
Death-Painkiller (Judas Priest)
Opeth-Soldier of fortune (deep purple) and Remember tomorrow (Iron maiden) .
Artillery-Razamanaz ( Nazareth)

 

[Umodian]

RAM - Evil (Mercyful Fate)
Wolf - A Dangerous Meeting (Mercyful Fate)
Bewitched - Black Funeral (Mercyful Fate)
Voivod - Evil (Mercyful Fate)
Voivod - Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
^ Honestly had no idea this was a cover when I first heard it, sounds just like another Voivod song, perfect.
Order From Chaos - War And Pain (Voivod)
Exhorder - Into the Void (Black Sabbath)
Overkill - Cornucopia (Black Sabbath)
Overkill - Overkill (Motörhead)
Overkill - Tyrant (Judas Priest)
Mercyful Fate - The Ripper (Judas Priest)
Necromantia - The Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)
Anthrax - Dethroned Emperor (Celtic Frost)
Sabbat - Kiss of Death (Satan)
Sodom - 1000 Days In Sodom (Venom)
Illdisposed - Nightmare (Venom)
Grave Digger - No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)

Now I better stop. Sorry for the long list, I enjoy cover songs a lot.

 

[Derek Neuland]

Fall Silent's cover of the Sesame Street song is pretty amazing:

 

[MagnaWolf]

Sanctuary - White Rabbit

 

[AllShallFall]

Machine Head's covers of Witch Hunt by Rush

 

[orcslayr23]

Generally i'm not a big fan of cover songs. I think it's kind of a waste of time, why not focus your attention on creating original music? Unfortunately every band kind of has to do at least one cover in their career, but generally I don't really like covers. I read an article recently that Halestorm is putting out a SECOND covers EP. I hate that band quite a bit, but I still think it's a ridiculous waste of time to put out TWO covers EPs when you only have two albums of original material. Luckily most bands I enjoy don't waste their time with cover albums/EPs, but if they did i'd skip them.

That said, I love Elvenking's cover of Heaven Is A Place on Earth because EK is my favorite band and before Era their stuff was amazing. Alestorm's cover of You Are A Pirate is hilarious, although i've kind of lost interest in the band.

 

[Justin626]

The Agonist covering Monochromatic Stains by Dark Tranquility

 

[Belac]

Thats uhh.. Pretty crappy

 

[Justin626]

I concede. You are so right.