ITT: We Discuss How Metal Covers Make Awesome Songs Awesome-er

[DigDog]

What if you could make metal metal-l-rer?

Or

 

[DigDog]

Or maybe just go in a different direction

 

[paperfist]

Formerly Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Bump -

As someone that has had a kid in the last couple years, Disney song's are inevitable...

But I'm not going to lie, this is a damn good cover of Frozen IMO

 

[snoopy7548]

How about when metal covers make awesome songs terrible?

 

[Muse]

Metal covers almost always work. Why? It's because metal places an exclamation mark on whatever it treats.

The Sound of Silence is just a fantastic song, it's classic. Just about anything that resurrects it is righteous. That version isn't that bad, come on, it's not what I would call metal, but it's not so bad. The video? I'm not judging that. The music's OK, folks.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

My favorite is Leo's metal cover of the baby shark song.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Metal covers almost always work. Why? It's because metal places an exclamation mark on whatever it treats.

The Sounds of Silence is just a fantastic song, it's classic. Just about anything that resurrects it is righteous. That version isn't that bad, come on, it's not what I would call metal, but it's not so bad. The video? I'm not judging that. The music's OK, folks.

I thought the Disturbed sound of silence was pretty damn good. My wife loved it, and I had to explain to her that it was actually a cover of a classic heh.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Leo from Frog Leap studios gets a lot of traffic, but this guy has a bit of an Alice in Chains vibe going.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Leo from Frog Leap studios gets a lot of traffic, but this guy has a bit of an Alice in Chains vibe going.

What makes me get really annoyed with Leo is that he feels 90% of his metal covers have to contain "Screamo" - which it doesn't. So I find his best ones are ones where someone else is doing the singing.

 

[Muse]

I thought the Disturbed sound of silence was pretty damn good. My wife loved it, and I had to explain to her that it was actually a cover of a classic heh.

Didn't the Stones say "it's not the singer, but the song?" That song is an all time classic. Not a lot of people cover it, it's not one of those songs that people cover in their live shows, etc. But its greatness can't be denied. Actually, it's goddamn prophetic. When it was written, AFAIK, graffiti was absolutely in its infancy in this country. Paul Simon was NYC (I think), I had visited NYC in 1964, I don't think I saw much graffiti, but graffiti is just viral all over the world now... this song kind of predicted that. But the message of the song is much much bigger than that. It's downright zen mastery in musical form.

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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Einstein

 

[Iron Woode]

 

[Red Squirrel]

Walking Dead

He has tons of other awesome ones on his channel.

 

[Iron Woode]

/thread

 

[ultimatebob]

Bump -

As someone that has had a kid in the last couple years, Disney song's are inevitable...

But I'm not going to lie, this is a damn good cover of Frozen IMO

Nah... this one is better:

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's an awesome goatie.

 

[FerrelGeek]

Think you're in the minority on this one, but to each his own. This totally blew me away.

How about when metal covers make awesome songs terrible?

 

[nakedfrog]

How about when metal covers make awesome songs terrible?

I was completely prepared to hate it, and was surprised that I didn't. I love S&G and cannot stand Disturbed. This cover still definitely isn't as good as the original, but it's at least okay.

 

[ctbaars]

Great bump! You made my morning better.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Nah... this one is better:

Not gonna lie - I have to respectfully disagree for reasons I listed above... Metal doesn't have to be screamo....

Ultimately I feel the vocals of my linked "Let it Go" are hella more epic than Epic Frog.

Of course, that's just IMO.

I mean, I don't even care for the stupid OBVIOUS New York accent of the guy I linked - but there is no doubt IMO he has some MAD good vocals.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

ATOT's thoughts on this cover of "Zombie" ? Personally can't tell if I love it or hate it at this point.

 

[blackangst1]

The metal covers of Baby Shark are awesome

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Bump - ran into this one today.....

Not gonna lie, some Bonnie Tyler is a guilty pleasure of mine - but this was well done.....

Female vocals are also a guilty pleasure of mine....

 

[EliteRetard]

This seems like something I should put here:

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Bump - Video author in my Post#29 made a cover of Disney Mulan. Not bad, not really metal - but does a pretty decent job. I definitely had some good laughs: