The Best Metal Covers of OTHER Metal Songs 

As soon as I got this notification my mind Immediately went to Painkiller by Death

Wait, you’re telling me the guy who tried to hire a hitman to murder his wife has a cover of “Killing is My Business… and Business is Good!”?!

I'd add: Metallica, Am I Evil? Cradle of Filth, Hallowed be thy name; Slayer, Dissident Aggressor

PAIN. PAIN. KILLER. KILLER. PAIN! PAIN! KILLER! KILLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Megadeth´s Paranoid

I love the God of Thunder cover that Death did

Honestly Children of Bodom’s Rebel Yell cover is fantastic, and Alexi’s clean vocals are some of the best

I unironically think Sabaton's for Whom the Bell Tolls is a banger, turning it into this sick orchestral piece

I'd like to add aces high by Children of Bodom

aces high by iron maiden was also coverd really well by children of bodom

Haven't watched the video yet but I hope the planet caravan cover from Pantera gets a mention.

Iced Earth doing Priest’s “The Ripper” ❤

Dimmu Borgir - Burn in Hell (Twisted Sister) Orbit Culture - Hardwired (Metallica) Gojira - Escape (Metallica) Dååth - Where the Slime Live (Morbid Angel) Revocation - Dyers Eve (Damn metallica is everywhere here)

I thought of Revocation that did Dyers Eve and Trivium Master of puppets

Testament's cover of Powerslave is my favourite song ever. It acutally improves the original imo. You'd think it impossible to improve upon perfection, but the madmen actually did it.

Hey, i would mention : 1) Anthrax - Antisocial (og by Trust) 2) Northern - Final Countdown (og by Europe) 3) Cannibal corpse - No remorse (og by Metallica) 4) and personnal all time fav' : Pantera - Hole in the sky take care, love

Lets just say you might have to do another video with some of these suggestions. Here is a few from me: Beast in Black - Battle Hymn (OG Manowar): They make this Manowar epic feel like an intricate part of their Dark Connection album Aces High - Tommy Johansson (OG Iron Maiden): former Sabaton guitarist and Majestica lead turns this Maiden classic into a power metal belter Drink - Skálmöld (OG Alestorm): Icelandic viking metal cover of a Scottish pirate metal song about alcohol? Yes please!! 1916 - Sabaton (OG Motörhead): No words needed. A beautiful yet horrifying song. Hallowed Be Thy Name - Machine Head (OG Iron Maiden): A cover that is both faithful and has their own spin on it. Helloween - Electric Eye (OG Judas Priest): a faithful cover that's just as good as the original Aerials - Amon Amarth (OG System of a Down): who knew a viking death metal cover of a nu metal classic could be so epic

Slayers cover of Dissident Aggressor by Judas Priest is amazing

For a long time I thought Sepultura's version of 'Symptom of the Universe' was the original 😅 I ended up getting more attached to it than Sabbath's. They did a great job imo

metallica - am i evil? pantera - planet caravan?? megadeth - no more mr nice guy??

Thanks for the mention, you are a hero! Also now that I think about it, Avenged Sevenfold has a cool cover of "Flash of the blade" too.

Disappointed I didn't see Pantera's cover of Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan or Type O Negative's cover of Paranoid. Both are incredibly inspired.

Thanks for turning me on to that Manilla Road cover! That is such a great tune and I’ve been listening to it on repeat

Varvis, thank you for your content. I enjoy your takes a lot!

Saw Sabaton open for Judas Priest in Syracuse a couple weeks ago. They were awesome!

I love the inclusion of the Video for I need your clothes, your boots, and your Motorcycle one of my favourite songs from ADM

The WHOLE album full of other bands covering SUMMONING: "In Mordor Where The Shadows Are - Homage To Summoning"

Sound of perseverance changed my life it gave and cured me of PTSD the first ten times I listened to it

into the floooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!!!

Slayer's Dissident Aggressor rocks. I also really enjoy Visigoth's Necropolis cover (not nearly as much as the original song, but MR is my favourite band haha), and Blind Guardian's Trial by Fire made me really happy when I found out about it

This video is brilliant! Very good picks, man 💯

Killswitch's Holy Diver is not just an immaculate cover song, building on the OG while staying true to the spirit, it also transforms it into one of the most perfect metal songs ever created.

i am surprised that no one mentioned the metallica cover of stone cold crazy , the first thrash band covering the first thrash song , i love it!

As some one who makes metal covers, I can't believe I've never looked into metal covers of metal songs. Great video. I definitely prefer the less faithful covers. I might actually prefer The kill switch engaged Dio cover over the original.

Manilla road's 1983 production vs Visigoth's 2015 is exactly the kind of direct contrast that confirms my preference for the oldschool. Each their own I suppose, but nah lol.

holy smokes fantastic call on the visigoth cover, the revenant king start to finish rips. After that not being too familiar with manilla road just bought the first 5 albums and despite a rough first two the next three are pure epic/power metal gold.

Arch Enemy: The Zoo (The Scorpions) - Huntress: The Oath (Kiss) - Huntress: Running Wild (Judas Priest)

Not metal to metal but nevermores sound of silence is just so good

love this love this channel

There's this cybergrind band from the early 2000's called THE BERZERKER that covered Carcass' "Corporal Jigsore Quandary" It is frickin' awesome!!!

You should do a video on the whole series of nativity in black

Hatesphere - Bark at the moon (Ozzy)

Machine Head - Battery (Metallica); Decapitated - Lunatic of God's Creation (Deicide); Lamb of God - Wake Up Dead (Megadeth)

Some other great Priest covers: Beyond the Realms of Death covered by Blind Guardian Exciter covered by Strapping Young Lad

What the heck happened at 4:45 My fav covers are Testament's cover of Powerslave and Machine Head's covers of Hallowed be Thy Name and The Sentinel. I love iron maiden but I almost always prefer cover's of their songs that make the songs heavier. Honorable mentions: Jungle Rot's cover of Kreator's Terrible Certainty, Stone Sour's covers of Metal Church's The Dark and Children of the Grave, Metallica's cover of Iron Maiden's Remember Tomorrow,

Type O Negative's cover of Black Sabbath is one for the ages and is the model for how bands should think outside the box when doing covers in order to make them their own.

"Hallowed be thy name" by Cradle of Filth is coool

Chuck continued with Control Denied; clean vocals.

Rhapsody of Fire's cover of Flash of the Blade

Great video dude, bit short 😛 I have found that covers of older metal songs have better production and as a result sound better to my ear. The "Maiden Heaven - A Tribute To Iron Maiden" is a good example of this, To Tame a Land - Dream Theater blows my mind. One of my favourite metal covers is Fightstar's cover of Leper Messiah!

I like All That Remains cover of Believe in Nothing by Nevermore. Not as good as the original, but I like their poppy melodic metalcore version. Has an interesting vibe.

Metal Church- Highway Star Cannibal Corpse - No Remorse Amon Amarth - Aerials

Baest's cover of Bolt throwers "no guts, no glory". Brilliant song brilliant cover.

My favorite is probably Death's cover of Painkiller, it was absolutely badass. And I'm a fellow Oilers fan too man. I'm hoping they can pull it off🤟

Think my favourite cover is Anaal Nathrahk's version of Powerslave. It's so different from the original but it kicks so much ass. I much prefer covers that change up the original song rather than play them almost note for note. Anaal Nathrahk pulls that off with flying colors.

For metal on metal covers I always recommend Drangonforce’s cover of Evil Dead by Death. They totally reimagined it and even threw in an Easter egg at the end, it’s awesome

Cannibal Corpse early cover of Zero The Hero is pretty cool as well

I would have loved to see Suicide Silences cover of Engine No 9. It really was the first song ever to mix Numetal and Deathcore so well.

Anaal Nathrakh doing Maiden's Powerslave is flippin' mental!

I think that Liliac did Holy Diver really well too.

I’ve always thought Emperor’s covers of Mayhem’s Funeral Fog and Darkthrone’s Cromlech are awesome

"Lars listens to Blackened cover" "Lars hears audible Bass Guitar" "Lars disapproves"

How did I not know that Opeth covered Alice In Chains! Sounds amazing.

Alice In Chains is metal AF~

Machine Heads cover of Hallowed Be Thy Name is a must listen to when it comes to metal bands covering metal bands

Symptoms of the universe ~ Sepeltura

I haven't watched the video yet but two cool examples that came to my mind that I think you probably HAVEN'T talked about in this video are : Dio's Holy Diver by Killswitch Engage. Black Sabbath's Snowblind by System Of A Down.

The cover Circle of the tyrant by Opeth from Celtic frost personally its my favs one

One cover I think that was truly done well was Nekrogoblikon covering Bodom Beach Terror by Children Of Bodom!

A lot of these I gotta check out 😅 A couple that come to mind for me, but aren't exactly metal on metal covers are Dream Theater's cover of Take Your Fingers From My Hair (the ending of this is so good 😩) and Erra's cover of Stockholm Syndrome

Axel Rudi Pell covering Rainbow Temple of the king (live) must be the best cover to ever exist

I would definitely put sepultura's cover of orgasmatron on here

Ones I would have picked: Satyricon - Orgasmatron (orig. Mötörhead) Dimmu Borgir - Burn In Hell (orig. Twisted Sister) Six Feet Under - TNT (orig. AC/DC - might be too much of a stretch to include them as a metal band, though) Dream Theater - To Tame a Land (orig. Iron Maiden) Metallica - Remember Tomorrow (orig. Iron Maiden)

0:28 Beard? What beard? And I’m thinking Strapping Young Lad’s version of Exciter! And if AiC are metal, then FNM are too. I’m thinking of their live version of War Pigs, of course.

many people don't check corey taylor's second band stone sour in which they do justice to metal church's the dark by modernizing their sound and adding corey's epic growl

I highly recommend you check out Daath's cover of The Philosopher by Death. Their cover just adds so much to the song I've never listened to the original since. Death fans, don't even try. In fact, go check it out yourself. Daath is a fantastic band that's absolutely worth your time checking out, and they take everything good about the original and improve on it. Also Orbit Culture's cover of Hard Wired by Metallica. Niklas does such a great job rearranging the song to a melodeath style combined with one of his best vocal performances to make a top-tier cover.

Pantera - The Badge by Poison Idea, I know hurr-durr not metal, but it's great anyway

Blind Guardian - “Don’t talk to strangers”

Few people know about this but Architects' cover of Change by Deftones is beautiful

Emperor did a great cover of Bathory's song "A fine day to die"

I love Sleep’s version of Sabbth’s Snowlind!

Six Feet Under has covered TNT, Son of a Bitch, War Machine, In League with Satan, and many, many other metal songs as well as several classic rock tunes. Graveyard Classics.

No one talks about Obituary's cover of Circle Of The Tyrants by Celtic Frost. As much as I love Celtic Frost, the cover is wayyy better than the original.

Shadow of intents laid to rest. Fit for an autopsy, walk with me in hell. Graveworm fear of the dark

The first cover that popped to my head was Trivium covering Master of Puppets. Also this whole list could of been CoB with their skeletons in the closet album.

Death's cover of Painkiller is THE answer! Honorable mentions not seen here to Evergrey (Paranoid), After Forever (Heaven and Hell), and Nightwish (Symphony of Destruction)

First 2 songs that came to mind for me was Deaths Covers of Painkiller and God of Thunder even though God of Thunder originally isn’t a metal song

Sylosis doing Pantera's Strength Beyond Strength Hatebreed doing Slayer's Ghosts of War Cannibal Corpse doing the Squidbillie's intro song

Slayer Dissident Agressor, Pantera's Hole in the Sky, Metallica's The Small Hours, and Type O Negatives Paranoid have to be in the next video

Abbath's cover of the Judas Priest song "Riding on the wind".

Circle of the Tyrants by Obituary, Celtic frost original. In my humble opinion, best cover ever (and one of my fav metal songs of all time, certainly a death tune)

One of my favorites is thy art is murders cover of hammer smashed faced, somehow making the song more intense and have a much fuller sound

Evergrey- “Paranoid” Metallica- “Ronnie Rising” Gojira- “Escape” Metallica- “Mercyful Fate” Pantera- “Hole in the Sky” Iced Earth- “Hallowed Be Thy Name” Anthrax- “Neon Knights”

I'd say life of agony March of the s.o.d/Sargent "d" and the s.o.d. Best cover i've heard in a while

That Creed reference jumpscare in the beginning

Fear in the Dark covered by Graveworm - talk about a genre bend Hallowed by thy Name covered by Cradle of Filth - how do you upgrade iron maiden?!

for me it's Emperor - Gypsy ( Mercyful Fate's )

some favorites I love, rarely mentioned (lots of NON metal covers - bit off topic I know): Gojira - Escape (Metallica) John Garcia · Kudt Vanderhoof · Jeff Pilson · Jason Bonham - The Thing That Should Not Be (Metallica) Strapping Young Lad - Room 421 (Cop Shoot Cop) The Gathering - In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated (Dead Can Dance) The Gathering - When the Sun Hits (Slodive) Testament - The Sails of Charon (Scorpions) Testament - Draw the Line (Aerosmith) Vader - Rapid Fire (Judas Priest) Vader - I Feel You (Depeche Mode) Vader - Silent Scream (Slayer) Grip Inc. - Paint it Black (The Rolling Stones) Paradise Lost - Smalltown Boy ft. Devin Townsend (Jimmy Sommerville) Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths) Paradise Lost - Walk Away (Sisters of Mercy) Dark Tranquility - My Friend of Misery (Metallica) Earth Crisis - Holiday in Cambodia (Dead Kennedys) Sepultura - Inhuman Nature (Final Conflict) Sepultura - Orgasmatron (Motörhead) Sepultura - Symptom of the Universe (Black Sabbath) Machine Head - The Sentinel (Judas Priest) Machine Head - Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden) Biohazard - After Forever (Black Sabbath) Motörhead - Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones) Motörhead - Göd Save the Queen (The Sex Pistols) Slayer - I'm Gonna Be Your God (I wanna Be Your Dog - Iggy Pop & The Stooges) Static-X - Behind the Wall of Sleep (Black Sabbath) actually surpringly interesting cover though they really really deconstruct the song, not for everyone... Six Feet Under - nah i'm joking 😂 I passed on the obvious and many times mentionned greats (Metallica's Am i evil, Megadeth's paranoid, Death's painkiller etc...)

My favorite cover would definitely be be Chimairas cover of disposable heros

Brutality does a pretty epic cover of Electric Funeral and System of a Down has a bonkers cover of Snowblind.