Everyone loves bands that play cover songs. Ever since there have been bands, there have been other bands, who come after and cover them live and on record. Not only did some of the greatest rock ...
Here are 10 rock and metal cover songs that are more famous than the originals. Musicians making new renditions of existing songs goes back to the very creation of music itself, really. But the modern ...
Toto’s 1982 smash hit “Africa” is an awesome song. Who can’t get down with that chorus? Come on, it’s undeniable. The song also seems to lend itself particularly well to the metal cover treatment. So ...
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have reunited for another edition of the "Hanukkah Sessions," covering Lisa Loeb’s 1994 hit “Stay (I Missed You).” “Welcome back to the menorah, y’all,” reads a ...
Who’s more “metal?” Halloween‘s Michael Myers or The Lord of the Rings’ Frodo Baggins? If you don’t give the Hobbit extra credit because of Led Zeppelin it’s not exactly an easy question. How can you ...
Cover songs, at some point, became part of nu-metal culture. To be more specific, these were mostly covers of pop songs. Sure, some did it before Limp Bizkit unleashed their take on George Michael's ...
If you needed any help in constructing your holiday playlist, we got you covered. Metal up-and-comers Small Town Titans recently covered The Grinch’s all-time favorite tune, “You’re a Mean One, Mr.
Cover versions are easy to play but much harder to get right. It’s the rare band or artist who can turn in their own version of a classic song without ruining the original or provoking the ire of fans ...
Death metal has a genre has a history of doing covers songs, but they’re mostly all novelty songs. It’s become a played-out gimmick to take any pop song, speed it up, play it on highly distorted ...
If you were alive and listening to mainstream radio or watching MTV in 1992, you probably couldn’t go more than an hour without hearing Haddaway’s “What Is Love.” The song then had something of a ...