Great Cover Songs: Part II

Do you guys remove old threads? I can't find that old cover songs thread. So, I started a new one because I just heard a cool cover:

MAGNITUDE 9 - FLIGHT OF ICARUS (Iron Maiden)

Ken over at Laser CD (Sensory Records) is selling two albums by this band for $8. I've always wanted to hear them so I picked them up. First off, this band is way more power metal than I expected. I was expecting something like Magellan or Enchant. No way. This is progressive, but progressive power metal. Anyway, I just got through a few spins of Reality In Focus and I'm mightily impressed! They remind a lot of Fates Warning. Anyway, that's a pretty snazzy Maiden cover.

Yup, great song, great cover!

it sounds decent enough

ultmetal wrote:

Yup, great song, great cover!

Ah, I see that you're a fan! I never read about them on your site before. Good stuff.

CROSSEYED MARY - Iron Maiden (Jethro Tull)

Have all of Mag 9's releases. They are a great band indeed!

Highland Glory - The Trooper ....very well done...their own style but not corrupted...

scottmitchell74 wrote:

Highland Glory - The Trooper ....very well done...their own style but not corrupted...

Ah, they also do a fine Wild Child - WASP, when the vocalist can remember the lyrics.....

Vengance Rising - Space Truckin'

Winger - Purple Haze - JUST KIDDING

Actually, all along the watch tower - hendrix
2000 Man - KISS
Eric Catrman - Come Sail Away (funny)

Bathory - Deuce, Balck Diamond ( KiSS )
Six Feet Under - grave yard classic
Miaden's - tribute albums are good
...

tons of tribute songs are superb. hard to choose.

Exodus-smurfette
Ultimatum-Sins of Omission
Believer-Like a Song
Tourniquet-the Tempter

Temple of the King (Rainbow) - Angel Dust
Shame on the Night (Dio) - Solitude Aeturnus
No More Tears (Ozzy) - Solitude Aeturnus
Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath) - Solitude Aeturnus
Hallowed by thy name (Iron Maiden) - Solitude Aeturnus
Soldier Of Fortune (Deep Purple) - Opeth
Sweet home alabama (Skynyrd) - Bonfire
Land Of Confusion (Genesis) - Disturbed
Stairway to Heaven (Led Zep) - Far Corporation
Helter Skelter (Beatles) - Motley Crue
Space Oddity (David Bowie) - Helloween
White Room (Cream) - Helloween
Hocus Pocus (Focus) - Helloween
From Out Of Nowhere (Faith No More) - Helloween
We Will Rock You (Queen) - Pink Cream 69
Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones) - Tiamat
Leader Of The Pack - Twisted Sister
Highway Star (Deep Purple) - Type O Negative
Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix) - Skid Row
shine on you crazy diamond (Pink Floyd) - Sittin' Idol
Light My Fire (Doors) - Amorphis
Painkiller (Judas Priest) - Death
Under the Sun (Black Sabbath) - Entombed
God Of Thunder (Kiss) - Entombed
March of the S.O.D (SOD) - Entombed

"Wild World"- MR NASTY
"White Rabbit"- LIZZY BORDEN
"I Against I"- SOULS AT ZERO

thejokeriv wrote:

Winger - Purple Haze - JUST KIDDING

Have you heard that cover? It's actually probably one of the best "Purple Haze" covers ever done.

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Actually, all along the watch tower - hendrix

Dave Matthews Band also does an awesome cover of this song.

Eyesore wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

Winger - Purple Haze - JUST KIDDING

Have you heard that cover? It's actually probably one of the best "Purple Haze" covers ever done.

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Actually, all along the watch tower - hendrix

Dave Matthews Band also does an awesome cover of this song.

Yes I have - I thought it was OK, but I could picture King's X doing a KILLER cover of it - they did an awesome cover of Manic Depression

Faith no More did a great cover of "War Pigs" they also did a cover of "Easy Like Sunday Morning" by Lionel Ritchie.
I was at a Kings X show in DFW & they did play Watchtower, I was hoping it would make th live album but it did'nt, You are right Joker, it was AWESOME.

I'd like to hear King's X play a Watchtower song.

NOBODY (odd metalband from Spiritofradio's neck o' the woods, so Saxon says)...they do a nifty version of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" which you must all know is the coolest Gordon Lightfoot tune ever....

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Faith no More did a great cover of "War Pigs" they also did a cover of "Easy Like Sunday Morning" by Lionel Ritchie.

I'm assuming you're talking about the studio version (good)from "The Real Thing" and not the live version from "Nativity in Black" where Mike Patton slurs and mumbles through the lyrics (bad, very bad).

I always liked Megadeth's cover of "Anarchy in the U.K.".

Here's one I've always liked:

PRO-PAIN - SOUTH OF HEAVEN

If you don't like Pro-Pain just skip it. It's basically Pro-Pain turning a Slayer song into a Pro-Pain song. Pretty cool, though. It works well. And here's another:

PRO-PAIN - REFUSE/RESIST

A natural fit for this band. Not very different, but a good cover.

Realm - Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
Megadeth - These Boots (Nancy Sinatra)
Heathen - Set Me Free (Sweet)
Metal Church - Highway Star (Deep Purple)
Dead Horse - Rock Lobster (B-52's)
Sentinel Beast - Phantom of the Opera (Iron Maiden)
Intruder - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone (The Monkees)
Laaz Rockit - Holiday in Cambodia (Dead Kennedys)
Mordred - Super Freak (Rick James)
Xentrix - Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr.)

Ok the last 2 are kinda silly, jokey tracks but I enjoy them for what they are. They obviously don't take themselves seriously, at least.

and I don't know if you'd necessarily call them covers but Mekong Delta did terrific renditions of the themes to Hitchcock's "Psycho" and "The Twilight Zone" on 'Interludium (Begging for Mercy)' and 'Twilight Zone,' respectively.

A good bump! Since we've been discussing Queensryche:

QUEENSRYCHE - SCARBOROUGH (Simon & Garfunkel)

That's one of the coolest covers I've ever heard. I love that build-up! And here's another one:

AZRAEL'S BANE - DIARY OF A MADMAN (Ozzy)

I just got their Wings Of Innocence CD today; this is the final track on the album. It's not quite as hard-hitting as the original, but I like how they've changed it up.

Testament's version of the Scorpions' Sails of Charon is a favorite of mine.