Great cover songs PART 2

I know we had a thread like this going on the old Heart of Metal board. Well, I'm sitting here listening to Anthrax's killer cover of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and thinking, what a great cover.

What are some of your favorites?

Iron Maiden --- Cross Eyed Mary

Mortification --- Black Snake

Deliverance --- After Forever

Relapsed --- I Want It All

Elvenking --- Penny Dreadful

Rob Rock --- Move On !!

Vengeance Rising --- Space Truckin'

Seventh Avenue --- Burning Heart

Believer --- Like A Song (this got me into U2, who I didn't pay attention to before)

Non metal:

Hendrix --- All Along The Watchtower

Iced Earth - Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath)

Place of Skulls - Consuming Fire (Third Day)

Coroner - I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Beatles)

Motley Crue - Helter Skelter (Beatles)

Aerosmith - Come Together (Beatles)

Aerosmith - Train Kept A Rollin' (The Yardbirds?)

Aerosmith - Rockin Pheumonia & the Boogie Woogie Flu (Rick Derringer)

Realm - Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)

Fates Warning - Sign of the Southern Cross (Black Sabbath)

Fates Warning - Saints in Hell (Judas Priest)

Judas Priest - Diamonds & Rust (Joan Baez)

Judas Priest - Green Manalishi (Fletwood Mac)

Anthrax - The Cowboy Song(Thin Lizzy)

Anthrax - Love Her All I Can (Kiss)

Motorhead - Louie, Louie (The Kingsman)

Motorhead - God Save the Queen (Sex Pistols)

Motorhead - Shoot Em Down (Twisted Sister)

Motorhead - Enter Sandman (Metallica)

Iron Maiden - Cross Eyed Mary (Jethro Tull)

Iron Maiden - Massacre (Thin Lizzy)

Thin Lizzy - Rosalie (Bob Segar)

Ultimatum - Burn (Vengeance Rising)

Ultimatum - Sins of Ommission (Testament)

Dio & Yngwie Malmsteen - Dream On (Aerosmith)

Testament - Nobody's Fault (Aerosmith)

Six Feet Under - Piranha (Exodus)

Six Feet Under - Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy)

Metallica - Am I Evil (Diamond Head)

Black Label Society - "I Never Dreamed" (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Nevermore - Love Bites (Judas Priest)

Nevermore - The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

Helloween - Cold Sweat (Thin Lizzy)

TT Quick - Fortunate Son (CCR)

Helstar - He's a Woman, She's a Man (Scorpions)

Helstar - Beyond the Realms of Death (Judas Priest)

Metal Church - Highway Star (Deep Purple)

The Bronx Casket Company - Jump In The Fire (Metallica)

Ted Nugent - Rag Doll (Aerosmith)

Ted Nugent - Baby Please Don't Go (?)

Thin Lizzy - Rosalie (Bob Segar)

Metalium - Burning (Accept)

Exodus - Low Rider (War)

Anthrax - The Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy)

Burning Point - The road To Hell (Chris Rea)

Children of Bodom - The Trooper (Iron Maiden)

D.T.T - Don't know what you've got till it's gone (Cinderella)

Dragonlord - Emerald (Thin Lizzy)

Dungeon - Wasted Years (Iron Maiden)

Exodus - smurfette (????)

Faster Pussycat - You're So Vain (Carly Simon)

Flotsam & Jetsam and Suicidal Tendencies - Battery (Metallica)

George Lynch - Mr. Crowley (Ozzy)

Grave Digger - Running Free (Iron Maiden)

Holy Mother - Holy Diver (Dio)

Holy Mother - Your Song (Elton John)

Motorhead - It's a long way to the Top (????)

Powergod - ***Anything from their two Cover albums***

Ratt - running with the Devil (Van Halen)

Sentenced - House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)

Sentenced - I Wanna Be Somebody (WASP)

Seven Witches - See you in Hell (Grim Reaper)

Seven Witches - Wasted (Def Leppard)

Tad Morose - Power of the Night (Savatage)

White Lion - Radar Love (Golden Earing)

Xentrx - Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr. ?)

Only ones I can think of off the top of my noggin:

Laaz Rockit - Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedy's)

Powermad - Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment (The Ramones)

Thought of some more:

Heathen - Kill The King (Rainbow)

Evildead - He's A Woman, She's A Man (Scorpions)

Witchery - Fast As A Shark (Accept)

Obituary - Circle Of The Tyrants (Celtic Frost)

Sepultura - Orgasmatron (Motorhead)

Voivod - Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)

Uncle Slam - Dazed And Confused (Led Zepplin)

and I FINALLY figured out who the band was covering on this tune:

United - Yesterday's Hero (Bay City Rollers)

GOTHIC SLAM - THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

ANTHRAX - COWBOY SONG

KING'S X - MANIC DEPRESSION

SideShowDisaSter wrote:

Laaz Rockit - Holiday In Cambodia (Dead Kennedy's)

Damn it how could I forget this song ? and I wouldn't mind but I even have the 12" vinyl cover framed on me wall.

Baby Please Don't Go is in original by Big Joe Williams, Ult.



Some that weren't mentioned above:



Tankard - Try Again (Spermbirds)

Tankard - Centerfold (The J. Gells Band)

Overkill - Changes (Black Sabbath)

Overkill - Tyrants (Judas Priest)

Trick or Treat - Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cindy Lauper)

Helloween - Lay All Your Love on me (ABBA)

Heathen - Set Me Free (Sweet)

Hypocrisy - Evil Invaders (Razor)

Megadeth - No More Mr. Nice Guy (Alice Cooper)

Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy)

Anthrax - Antisocial (Trust)

Destruction - The Damned (Plasmatics)

Exodus - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (AC / DC)



etc.

Does anyone download songs I upload? Well, if so, here are some of my favorites (downloadable):

SONATA ARCTICA - STILL LOVING YOU (Scorpions)
HAMKA - TORNADO OF SOULS (Megadeth)
ERIC KNIGHT BAND - FOOLIN' (Def Leppard)
STILL REMAINS - HEAD LIKE A HOLE (NIN)
SOLITUDE AETURNUS - HALLOWED BE THY NAME (Iron Maiden)
SHADOWS FALL - WELCOME TO THE MACHINE (Pink Floyd)
KITTIE - RUN LIKE HELL (Pink Floyd)
ION VEIN - TAKE HOLD OF THE FLAME (Queensryche)
TRIXIE - WASTED (Def Leppard)
SOLARSIS - NOTHING ELSE MATTERS (Metallica)
BESEECH - GIMME GIMME GIMME (ABBA)
ELIS - HEAVEN AND HELL (Black Sabbath)
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - HOLY DIVER (Dio)
HYDROGYN - 18 & LIFE (Skid Row)
LULLACRY - HEAD LIKE A HOLE (NIN)
STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - EXCITER (Judas Priest)
BLACK SYMPHONY - DELIVERANCE (Queensryche)

As you can see, I love cover tunes. I don't keep many ripped songs/albums on my PC, but I have a folder specifically for my favorite cover songs. I always love a good, true cover, but I really love when bands change things up a bit. For instance, Sonata Arctica's power metal cover of "Still Loving You," or Solarsis' melodic death metal version of "Nothing Else Matters," or both covers of NIN's "Head Like A Hole," and Elis' gothic metal version of "Heaven And Hell." Some I consider better than the originals, like Solitude Aeturnus' cover of "Hallowed Be Thy Name" (that's right, I said it!). And I always give props to bands who can pull off good Def Leppard covers, managing to nail the harmonies!

Anyway, I generally hate just listing things; so I hope someone enjoys these covers. I think they're all excellent!

EDIT: I see that ultmetal listed Ultimatum's cover of "Sins Of Omission." He's not stroking his own noodle there; it's a damn good cover, kind of like Overkill covering Testament! In fact, that how Jump In The Pit compilation is awesome (especially for a Dwell Records release)! Horror of Horrors deserve a smack, though, for totally turding up the solo—the best metal solo ever!—in "Return To Serenity." Fags.

BULLET LAVOLTA-"Detroit Rock City" (KISS)
PLACEBO- "Running Up That Hill" (KATE BUSH)
16 HORSEPOWER- "Bad Moon Rising" (C.C.R.)
KICK AXE- "The Chain" (FLEETWOOD MAC)
DEAD HORSE- "Rock Lobster" (B-52S)
GOO GOO DOLLS- "Never Take The Place of Your Man" (PRINCE)
ROYAL TRAMPS- "Gudbuy T'Jane" (SLADE)
LIZZY BORDEN- 'Generation Landslide" (ALICE COOPER)
VANDALS - "Poison" (ALICE COOPER)
SEDUCE- "The Slider" (T.REX)
TEMPLE OF BLOOD- "Deliver Us From Evil" (DEADLY BLESSING)

I'm tired too tired to think of more...

Hmm... good topic... these are just off the top of my head, I'm sure if I put my mind to it I could come up with many more...

Metallica - Last Caress/Green Hell (Misfits)

Metallica - Helpless (Diamond Head)

Stryper - Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Deliverance - After Forever (Black Sabbath -- I always loved how they added the bit from "Symptom of the Universe" in the middle!)

Overkill - Sonic Reducer (Dead Boys)

Iron Maiden - Cross Eyed Mary (Jethro Tull)

W.A.S.P. - The Real Me (The Who)

Rage -Jawbreaker (Judas Priest)

Testament - Nobody's Fault (Aerosmith)

Megadeth - Anarchy in the U.K. (Sex Pistols)

Raven w/Udo Dirkschneider - "Born To Be Wild" (Steppenwolf - this version is guaranteed to clear your house of unwanted pests if played at the proper volume )

Warrior Soul - Interzone (Joy Division)

Iron Savior - Running Free (Iron Maiden)

That's a start.. if I think of anymore I can always come back...

Death Angel - Cold Gin (KISS)

Anthrax - She (KISS)

Iced Earth - Creatures of the Night (KISS)

Arch Enemy - Symphony of Destruction (Megadeth)

Metallica - Overkill

Overkill - Tyrant (Judas Priest)

Overkill - Overkill (Judas Priest)

Opeth - Circle of Tyrants (Celtic Frost)

Metal Church - Highway Star (Deep Purple)

Nevermore - Love Bites (Judas Priest)

Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)

Iced Earth - Shooting Star (Bad Company)

Children of Bodom - Aces High (Iron Maiden)

Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade)

Iron Maiden - Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)

Demons & Wizards - Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)

Dark Angel - Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)

Testament - Draw The Line
Holy Moses - Five Year Plan
Nevermore - The Sound Of Silence
Slayer - Dissident Aggressor
Doro - White Wedding
Anthrax - Protest & Survive
Solitude Aeturnus - Chapel Of Burning
Enslaved - Procreation Of The Wicked
Napalm Death - Nazi Punks, F*ck off
Death - Painkiller
Sanctuary - White Rabbit
WASP - The Real Me
Sepultura - Orgasmatron

mc666 wrote:

Solitude Aeturnus - Chapel Of Burning

Did you mean "Deathwish" (the Christian Death cover)? "Chapel of Burning" isn't a cover.

oops yeah, i was trying to remember off the top of my head. Cheers!

Coroner - I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Beatles)
Kreator - Grinder (Judas Priest)
Iron Maiden - Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
Sam Kinison - Wild Thing (Troggs)
Skyclad - Prime Evil (Venom)
Slayer - Dissident Aggressor (Judas Priest)
Sodom - Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon and Garfunkel)
Sodom - 1000 Days in Sodom (Venom)
Sodom - Aber Bitte Mit Sahne (Udo Jurgens)
Hypocrisy - Evil Invaders (Razor)
Faith No More - I'm Easy (The Commodores)
Paradise Lost - In Nomine Satanas (Venom)
Exhumed - Exhumed to Consume (Carcass)
Obituary - Circle of the Tyrants (Celtic Frost)
Black Sabbath - Evil Woman (Crow)
Witchery - Fast As a Shark (Accept)
Witchery - I Wanna Be Somebody (WASP)

Motorhead "Whiplash" (Metallica)
Agent Steel "Beyond the Realms of Death" (Judas Priest)
Metallica "Am I Evil?" (Diamond Head)
Dark Angel "Creeping Death" (Metallica)
Yngwie Malmsteen "Gates of Babylon" (Rainbow)
Blood-n-Fire "Surrender" (Stryper)
Faith No More "War Pigs" (Black Sabbath)
Death "Painkiller" (Judas Priest)
Treasure Seeker "Heroes" (Bride)
Believer "Like a Song" (U2)
Megadeth "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath)
Ultimatum "Sins of Omission" (Testament)
Mortification "Black Snake" (Bloodgood)
Iced Earth "Transylvania" (Iron Maiden)
Gamma Ray "Exciter" (Judas Priest)
Impellitteri "Since You've Been Gone" (Rainbow)
Treasure Seeker "Too Late For Living" (Saint)
Stratovarius "Bloodstone" (Judas Priest)
Metallica "Stone Cold Crazy" (Queen)
Wise Guys "Noah Was a Knower" (Mortification)
Heathen "Kill the King" (Rainbow)
Tourniquet "The Temptor" (Trouble)
Vengeance Rising "Space Truckin" (Deep Purple)
Ultimatum "Burn" (Vengeance Rising)
Crimson Thorn "Loud 'N Clear" (Stryper)
Judas Priest "Green Manalishi" (Fleetwood Mac)
Overkill "Frankenstein" (Edgar Winter Group)
Treasure Seeker "To Hell With the Devil" (Stryper)
Anthrax "Got the Time" (Joe Jackson)
Place of Skulls "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Eric Burden)
Exodus "Low Rider" (War)
Dark Angel "Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin)
Anthrax "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (Black Sabbath)
Metal Church "Highway Star" (Deep Purple)
Deliverance "Surrender" (Stryper)
Megadeth "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Alice Cooper)
Treasure Seeker "Out of the Darkness" (Bloodgood)
Deliverance "Sanctuary" (Daniel Amos)
Helloween "White Room" (Cream)
Cybergrind "Scrolls of the Megilloth" (Mortification)
Divinefire "The Show Must Go On" (Queen)
Treasure Seeker "Flames of Fire" (Leviticus)
Arch Enemy "Aces High" (Iron Maiden)
Obituary "Circle of the Tyrants" (Celtic Frost)
Sanctuary "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane)
Kreator "Lambs To Slaughter" (Raven)
Sodom "Iron Fist" (Motorhead)
Defiance "Killers" (Iron Maiden)
Seventh Avenue "Burning Heart" (Survivor)
Coroner "Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix)
Nevermore "The Sound of Silence" (Simon & Garfunkel)
Motorhead "Louie Louie" (The Kingsmen)
Echo Hollow "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (U2)
Tortured Conscience "Crucify" (Bloodgood)
Joshua "Heart Full of Soul" (Yardbirds)
Anthrax "I'm Eighteen" (Alice Cooper)
Metallica "Blitzkrieg" (Blitzkrieg)
Deliverance "Horrendous Disc" (Daniel Amos)
No Innocent Victim "Crucial Moment" (The Crucified)
Slayer "Dissident Aggressor" (Judas Priest)
REZ "Presence of the Lord" (Blind Faith)
Joe Satriani "Sleepwalk" (Santo & Johnny)
Flotsam & Jetsam "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (Elton John)

Songs I've Seen Performed Live

Tykkus "In the Night" (Saint)
Tykkus "Desire" (Ozzy Osbourne)
Ultimatum "Wrathchild" (Iron Maiden)
Tower of Hundred "The Power and the Glory" (Saxon)

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4 Non Blondes --- What's Up ( I still have a crush on Linda Perry...I know,I know, but there's just something about her!!! )

Is this a cover song?

I like a few, but my memory stink, so the list is short:

OverLorde - Queen Of The Rÿche (Queensrÿche)
Death - Painkiller (Judas Priest)
Death - God Of Thunder (Kiss)
Nevermore - Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
Nevermore - Love Bites (Judas Priest)
Kurt Nilsen - Crazy Nights (Kiss)
Metallica - Am I Evil (Diamond Head)
Metallica - Turn The Page (Bob Seeger)
Arch Enemy - Starbreaker (Judas Priest)
Agent Steel - The Ripper (Judas Priest)
Agent Steel - Beyond The Realms of Death (Judas Priest)
Agent Steel - Heavy Metal Thunder (Saxon)
Agent Steel - Dark Lady (Scorpions)
Agent Steel - Sweat Leaf (Black Sabbath)
Sacrificium - White Throne (Vengeance Rising)
Ultimatum - Burn (Vengeance Rising)
Ultimatum - Sins Of Omission (Testament)
Metallium - Burning (Accept)
Metallium - Ride The Sky (Helloween)
Brainstorm - savage (Helloween)
Anthrax - She (Kiss)
Anthrax - Anti-Social (Trust)
Skid Row - C'mon and Love Me (Kiss)
Iced Earth - Creatures of the Night (Kiss)
Iced Earth - God Of Thunder (Kiss)
Iced Earth - The Number of the Beast (Iron Maiden)
Steel Prophet - Fast As A Shark (Accept)
Steel Prophet - Neon Knights (Black Sabbath)
Fates Warning - Sign Of The Southern Cross (Black Sabbath)
Destiny's End - The Last In Line (Dio)
Blind Guardian - Don't Talk To Strangers (Dio)
Primal Fear - Kill The King (Rainbow)
Axel Rudi Pell - Still I'm Sad (don't remember the originator, but it is Dio related)
Jag Panzer - Children Of The Sea (Black Sabbath)
Hammerfall - Man On The Silver Mountain (Rainbow)
Hammerfall - Child of the Damned (Warlord)
Hammerfall - Back To Back (Pretty Maids)
Hammerfall W/Kai Hansen - I Want Out (Helloween)
Hammerfall - Head Over Heals (Accept)
Doro - Only You (Kiss)
Cher - A World Without Heroes (Kiss)
Pretty Maids - Please Don't Leave Me (Thin Lizzy)
Six Feet Under - Holocaust (Savatage)
Powergod - soldiers Under Comand (Stryper)
Powergod - Starz (Hear 'n' Aid)

OK, so I cheated....

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Is this a cover song?

Upon further review....no, it isn't....sorry about that. I've been under the impression for 13-14 years that it was a hippie/peace song from the 60's...don't know why I believed that to be true...Carry on!!

Fat Freddy wrote:

Hmm... good topic... these are just off the top of
my head, I'm sure if I put my mind to it I could come up with many
more...

Stryper - Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Deliverance
- After Forever (Black Sabbath -- I always loved how they added the bit
from "Symptom of the Universe" in the middle!)

Raven w/Udo
Dirkschneider - "Born To Be Wild" (Steppenwolf - this version is
guaranteed to clear your house of unwanted pests if played at the
proper volume )

Can't believe I forgot "Born to Be Wild" by Raven. GREAT, GREAT COVER!!!



I also love that Stryper song. A lot of metalheads hated it, but I thought it was a great song to begin with.



Also love D's version of "After Forever".

Anacrusis - I Love The World
Anthrax - Anti-Social
Death - Painkiller
Destruction - Killers
Heathen - Kill The King
Heathen - Set Me Free
Obituary - Circle Of The Tyrants
Realm - Eleanor Rigby
Slayer - Dissident Aggressor
Sodom - Iron Fist
Testament - Nobody's Fault
Voivod - Astronomy Domine

My all time favorite Maiden cover....

I've got the Fire--- Montrose... great guitar solo:foamfinger:

Rush - THe Seeker ... the who

King's X -- Manic Depression -- hendrix

Holy Soldier --- Gimme Shelter -- stones

Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust

The only cover that is better than the original.

ultmetal wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Hmm... good topic... these are just off the top of
my head, I'm sure if I put my mind to it I could come up with many
more...

Stryper - Shining Star (Earth, Wind & Fire)

Deliverance
- After Forever (Black Sabbath -- I always loved how they added the bit
from "Symptom of the Universe" in the middle!)

Raven w/Udo
Dirkschneider - "Born To Be Wild" (Steppenwolf - this version is
guaranteed to clear your house of unwanted pests if played at the
proper volume )

Can't believe I forgot "Born to Be Wild" by Raven. GREAT, GREAT COVER!!!



I also love that Stryper song. A lot of metalheads hated it, but I thought it was a great song to begin with.



Also love D's version of "After Forever".

Great minds think alike!!