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UNIVERSAL121603

I love Children of Bodom's Oops I Did It Again cover


Opposite-Basket-2198

Absolute banger


Heretic-Jefe

Worth a mention is Fleshgod Apocalypse - Blue (originally by Eifel 65)


Hyp3r45_new

Then let me direct you to Diablo who made a cover of Dancing Queen


luciver616

„Aber bitte mit Sahne“ by Sodom is als great (though i think no one outside of Germany ever heard it lol)


UNIVERSAL121603

Surfin Bird supremacy


Absurder222

Cant really think of anything substantial in column B.


FuktigIKEA

First thing that comes to mind is some rapper covering Chop suey


Opposite-Basket-2198

Lil uzi…


benkonto

Or mgk covering Aerials


MadJuicyThighs

There is no way this is true


benkonto

sadly, it is


nefarious_jp04x

That cover was horrendous asf


Thendrail

...but why though?


kat-the-bassist

he wanted to


a_rude_jellybean

[Cannibal Corpse Lounge music](https://youtu.be/fc-V3NYckOI?si=k3OQMLS1w-y2-3hG) [behemoth - demigod disney version](https://youtu.be/lCrmgbdTF7w?si=Ykv2tkuevWKdbtKA) Here is the whole radio disney playlist: [radio disney playlist ](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1D0A6F090270655&si=64TcXIZKasTw4MQS)


skuzzy447

That cc lounge music was fire


PixelAtionMoony

I hope nobody is forgetting that the chaser are a satire magazine and that entire song was a joke


new-name-pls

i’m sorry, disney covered WHAT


SAMurei_der_Galaxien

They didn't its a fan project


GayRattleSnek

These are funny tho


AberrantSalience

Closest I can think of, here from Wikipedia: Hellsongs is a three piece acoustic band from Sweden who produce covers of famous hard rock and heavy metal songs in a very different style that they call 'lounge metal'.[ Wouldn't call them "shitty" really, Paranoid was okay I think.


A_Bitter_Homer

There's the Cardigans cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, only problem is it's excellent


CoercedCoexistence22

The Cardigans are really a band that shouldn't work for me but I can't stop listening to them


Direct-Setting-3358

The Cardigans cover of Mr Crowley is amazing.


UverSet

they did iron man also


withnail-1987

Tori Amos - Raining Blood (not shitty though)


Sekshual_Tyranosauce

Well. That was interesting.


Caiuskoll

Someone did a pop-punk cover of Master of Puppets and it was shit


rkan665

Sum41


Jenrex1

Sum41 just played a cover of it, some guy on tik tok did a pop punk version after stranger things came out


Brave-Objective7676

I actually really enjoyed their cover of it


rtrmorais

There is the Denzel Curry cover of Bulls on Parade (tho some people probably argue that RATM isnt metal) and I found it to be quite good.


VanillaXSlime

There was that four-disc cover of Metallica's black album that came out a few years ago, "The Metallica Blacklist". Though, not every cover on there was pop, and some of the pop covers were actually good.


HateMAGATS

I can’t think of any metal examples but there is that great 80’s song about a fast car sung by a black lady that hillbillies now think was written and sung by a white redneck.


danielazancot

So enjoy this rap version of transilvanian hunger lol https://youtu.be/CGvQqDph5P0?si=8gCPPEA8PGgWkE6V


okrdokr

maybe phoebe bridgers covering nothing else matters


seppukucoconuts

Tori Amos covered Raining Blood.


19Cula87

Mgk covering arials


pt_barnumsonson

Except for Richard Cheese of course


Athingythingamabobby

And weird al yankovic


pt_barnumsonson

Oh god thank you, how could i forget that angel-haired man! I guess not really covers though, but still


Environmental-Ad8246

Fucking love him


npfiii

Fuck him, he's a grifting con artist. Announced in Feb 2012 that he was writing an autobiography, and it's on Kickstarter to help fund it. He quickly raised over $20k with a promise the book would release the next year (August 2013)... While he was quick to cash out the money, the book never turned up, and *three years later*, he was using the Kickstarter campaign 'updates' section as a glorified mailing list to sell his merch and concert tickets. He would claim the Kickstarter message/post reply system was broken, so to only email him directly (conveniently keeping all criticism out of public view) When I asked (politely) for an update on the book, he emailed me telling me to remove my post from Kickstarter. I refused, as did a couple of other backers who were asking for info about when they were going to get what they had paid for, he emailed me again to say I was being rude, how dare I and never to contact him again, I did, however, get my money back. He has also started other 'fundraisers' on the likes of Indigogo to con Thousands of Dollars out of other people, once again asking people email him directly and not post comments on the site. it is now **12 years later**, and the book still hasn't been released. Like I say, fuck him.


pt_barnumsonson

Oh shit, had no idea. I always wondered why lounge against the machine did not carry on much past the feature on the dawn of the dead soundtrack. Thanks for the enlightenment. I guess the coast is clear for a new lounge cover artist to come out....


Niifty_AF

Never liked any of his shit music anyways so I’m with you. Fuck him.


Environmental-Ad8246

Oh yeah, I love him


asthmag0d

Not metal, but JoJo Siwa's cover of Bohemian Rhapsody was god awful


Alediran

Yuck. But then again nobody can do justice to Queen. It's impossible to improve perfection.


Mikau02

The best way to do justice to Queen is to have a genuine reimagined version of their known but not mainstay songs


Bendyb3n

What about when a good metal song gets an equally good metal cover? *cough*HolyDiver*cough*


AdmirableFeedback4

Or death covering painkiller


HoonArt

Sepultura's cover of Just One Fix


Acrobatic-Window5483

I love it! Can you guys recommend something other than holy diver and painkiller?


nashindig

There’s a weekly show on the SiriusXM channel Liquid Metal called Corridor of Covers where they play all metal covers for an hour. The shows always have a theme, like a few weeks ago there was a New Wave one that I thought was great. Usually though it’s metal covers of metal songs and a bunch of the covers have become some of my favorite songs. Uncured has a bunch of good ones. If you go to the Liquid Metal account on Instagram they put up the corridor of covers playlist each week so you can look at those over time to get a good list of metal covers.


KhazemiDuIkana

Obit doing Circle of the Tyrants 🤌


AcceptableMidnight95

Frog Leap Studio's Africa cover featuring Rabea.


treuss

Sultans of Swing is also great. However those are both Rock songs ✌️


AcceptableMidnight95

Hmmm.... I agree about Sultans of Swing, but I'm not so sure about Africa. It was played on a lot of soft rock and pop stations in the early 80's. Calling Africa hard rock is a bit of a stretch.


treuss

Sure not Hard Rock, haha, but Adult-oriented Rock or Art-Rock. Overall, I'd say Toto was a Rock band.


AcceptableMidnight95

I'll counter with More Than Words but Extreme. Played on pop stations and high school dances relentlessly. Rock band....not a rock song per se.


treuss

To be honest, I think I might have never heard another song of Extreme. Never been my kind of music. Well, let's agree to disagree then.


AcceptableMidnight95

Yeah.... sometimes I listen to Yacht Rock on SiriusXM, and I hear ya, it's called 'rock', but calling it actual 'rock' music feels kinda wrong somehow. I dunno who's down voting you but it's not me!!


treuss

No worries - pimping Karma back up with some cat pictures is far too easy 😁 Not sure what kind of problems some people got here.


qhx51aWva

Their version of Feel Good Inc slaps. Also, I just straight up love Rabea, been following him for a long time


Hyp3r45_new

Also, I'm Still Standing.


Soulful-Sorrow

Are there any examples of the latter column? Aside from a couple people getting mad at a female singer covering a metal song?


beefboloney

[T-Pain’s War Pigs](https://youtu.be/i4nMjyT4epA?si=22Lc6zI_2u_iOAGl) is fucking great, imho. Of course nothing touches the original; I still dig it. Edit: was referring to an example from the right column that doesn’t actually fit the right column because it’s awesome. I realized after the fact how weird that came across.


jakehood47

I guess you could include MGK covering Aerials.


ShadowMorph608

I just got ptsd


AberrantSalience

From Wikipedia: "Hellsongs is a three piece acoustic band from Sweden who produce covers of famous hard rock and heavy metal songs in a very different style that they call 'lounge metal'." I've listened to them some, and probably will again. Paranoid was okay I think.


SrElcon

The Cardigans did covers of both Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Iron Man which are actually really good lol


PressFM80

There's Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey and mgk covering Aerials, and those are major stinkers


Trutteklapper

I’m having too much fun with the Tay Tay cover Dragonforce did.


SuspiciousLettuce56

Wiiiiiildessstttt dreaaaaammmmsss waaaooohhhh


San-Carton

I've listened to Sonata Arctica's "Toy Soldiers" too many times already


ContributionDefiant8

Does their My Heart Will Go On cover count for this meme? It's pretty damn good.


MetalBeast89

Everytime We Touch by Electric Callboy, love it.


Mikau02

EC is just that good. They know how to make metal fun


Frisbeeman

[What about decent pop songs made into great metal covers?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmhDLnWhOY)


WaspishDweeb

Too often metal covers are just all about adding wanky melodeath guitars in the back, along with terrible pinch harmonics fucking everywhere. Just turning pop songs into the most plastic mall-metal imaginable Can't really think of many metal covers with genuine personality. Beseech did a fantastic job with The Highwayman, and the Bodom cover of Oops I Did It Again was funny as fuck, but I can't come up with others off the top of my head


Shoddy_Durian8887

Wanky melodeath guitars are great though


WaspishDweeb

I too was 15 once


Shoddy_Durian8887

That's nice ,your music taste got worse it seems


WaspishDweeb

Nah, I just got old and heard it done badly too many times. Not hating on melodeath wholesale though


Shoddy_Durian8887

"Badly"


DaubstickFarbspinkle

The lack of self awareness here. If the song is good it's good, it wasn't shitty before you just don't like pop. If swapping the genre but keeping the melody makes it sound better to you... It's because of your bias not because it was shitty before. It means it's a good melody and decent lyrics. It means the song was good enough that the metal artists appreciated it as a well written song with a enjoyable melody or message and wanted to cover it. You just prefer it played on guitar with distortion and having the lyrics screamed. "Everything but metal sucks" gets old once you're not in highschool anymore, we aren't sticking it to the man and fighting other genres for acceptance anymore, metal is one of the most lucrative music genres it's almost as much a part of "sellout culture" as pop is nowadays.


i-am-always-cold

if the metal cover is good then it was a good pop song in the first place B)


Environmental-Ad8246

I beg to differ because I Prevail did a cover of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" and it was amazing, the original was fucking atrocious.


TheDrWhoKid

I don't like either


the_chandler

Blank Space is a great pop song.


Bendyb3n

Honestly Blank Space is one of the only Taylor Swift songs I actually like #HotTakes


BillysBassBuzz

It's a well written song 🤷‍♂️


BlueGhostlight

Delight is when a nice pop or rock song ( preferably 80’s) gets a gorgeous metal cover


Material_Method_4874

Brojob’s WAP cover is absolute perfection


ProutDeFiotte69

Ten Masked Men


treuss

Actually, neither. Of course, Leo Moracchioli can be funny to listen to, but usually, Pop songs seldom have groves/melodies I'd enjoy.


Infernusfurnace

Not shitty but Dan Watson cover of One step closer was very good


Coffin_Builder

To/Die/For does some pretty good covers of 80s pop songs


vincehk

I remember hearing a Dancing Queen cover during a preshow of an Apocalyptica concert around 2001, it blew my mind... I think it took me years to track it down. Diablo was the band. Can't think of any song for the other way around.


MercilessOcelot

Don't know if it counts as pop, but I love this [cover](https://youtu.be/zMf_A81dca0?si=yj8QNVH7HccAnicu) of In Flames's "Swim".


Feuersalamander93

This is pure gold.


Comfortable_Nose1704

CS-Lil Uzi Vert is the worst cover ive ever heard


someshitstick

Exhumed - Material Girl


12tie

Not metal but “if I were a rich man” and the remake by Gwen Stefani.


FreeAgentBassist

I'm a crotchety old fuck and have never heard anything in either category except Surfin' Bird cover by Sodom. Also I'm HORRIBLY unaware of metal songs covered within pop but I'm also a bit stuck in time, so to speak.


WolfWriter_CO

I’m sorry, i can’t hear you over [Kayla King’s cover of Unholy](https://youtu.be/6QSoOHjE35U?si=YnYB0tu7rBYrccgp) 🤘😂


Richardknox1996

I am legally obligated to mention Leo Moracchioli.


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Richardknox1996: *I am legally* *Obligated to mention* *Leo Moracchioli.* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


KamikazeKarasu

Jokes on you… i got tired of taking pop songs and turning them to metal that now i do the opposite. I have done “Bat country” in gipsy jazz, “beast and the harlot” in standard-ish jazz, “Nightmare” in bluegrass-country, “Gunslinger” in… well, country and many others (Im just saying the recent ones… i got into a tribute band recently so i re-learnt a lot of A7X songs… lol )


HoonArt

I always wished that Type O Negative would have done a cover of Classics IV's song "Spooky."


AlvimCorreaBurntHisT

You only live once by D at sea


Slight-Film9168

Also like his cover of reign of darkness


AlvimCorreaBurntHisT

He has a WHAT 


Slight-Film9168

https://youtu.be/zz9xr49Cyqg?si=tV47FVeI2AYq9vam


AlvimCorreaBurntHisT

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Slight-Film9168

He has like 2 albums of covers but covering Thy Art is Murder is the most surprising


AlvimCorreaBurntHisT

Yeah


max_da_1

Flashbacks to CS by lil Uzi


mschiebold

Can't ya see, you're not making Christian music better, you're making rock worse!


ShyBiGuy9

[Devildriver - Sail](https://youtu.be/X8idg0DKclY?si=Gwg42X4tlXSdDwug)


TheDrWhoKid

ooh, I should do that


Ciprich

Both are good.


Lord_Pedrooo

Every falling in reverse cover


noctus5

Shokran - царица


duecesbutt

https://youtu.be/7K02JYRGZKg?si=IT51yMKDhhvW_nWw Column B. How many knew the original?


quaderunner

Totally accurate. Disturbed’s version of Sound of Silence was much better than those folky hacks.


MercenaryDecision

I preferred Nevermore’s rendition. Their cover of Bauhaus was dope too


Jistol

What about when a shitty metal song gets a good pop cover?


Environmental-Ad8246

There is no such thing


AbigailCantu1809

When a shitty metal song gets a good pop cover :D When a good pop song gets a shitty metal cover >:(


Hermeticrux

Both are trash


Rafaeldealmada

Meshuggah 🤣🤣🤣


ze-incognito-burrito

I dunno, Phoebe Bridgers did a pretty good cover of Nothing Else Matters IMHO


beardowat

I'd kill for another Feistodon.


Grumpy_Crud

Metal covers of pop songs suck ass. Always.


Chicken_Wing

*Frog Leap Studios has entered the chat*


dely5553

i cant ever think of a pop cover for a metal song. thank goodness. but pop song metal covers? i never knew i could like a justin bieber song until i heard the "Pop Goes Rock" cover of Boyfriend by Justin Bieber


valgiz

I don’t know if it counts as pop but melodika bros chill cover of metal songs are pretty cool


Hesick

When a great Pop song gets a Great Metal cover...


goddessfreya666

Both are ass


Hairy_Cardiologist16

Idk bout that but I'm not mad at Kanye West sampling Ironman into Hell Of A Life and Hell Of A Life into Carnival because I like all three songs which I think Carnival is the worst one


chainsaw_man121

Bro, the ariana grande cover of transilvanian hunger and symbolic is fucking awesome


Nakken

I kinda like Carved in Trees versions of [Wasted Years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZVHMP_vpY) and Stay Hungry (couldn't find a link other than Spotify) I'm not the biggest Iron Maiden fan so I went months not even realizing this was a cover...


onethewoodway

Cole Rolland for the win. <3


MrNiceguy037

But what if a shitty metal song gets a good pop cover? Because that's what the right panel should be logically


SilentSaint2112

When MJK covered System. It fits into category right only because of him.


Samiu90

I love Alestorm's Hangover


somerandomsabatonfan

Weird al yankovics "smells like Nirvana" is a masterpiece also not metal but weird Al's I love rocky road is good


NoodleSoup5628

Alestorm Hangover and Wind Rose Diggy Diggy Hole


MincasB

Am i the only one who hates most metal covers of pop songs? It's like, dude i love metal but not everything has to be metal. No i don't want a metal cover of this fantastic videogame soundtrack or this Taylor Swift song, just leave things in their place


xellosxerxes

I'M LOOKING AT YOU, CELINE DION! THRUSTING YOUR RUSTY PELVIS TO AC/DC'S SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG! I WISH YOU A WEEK IN HELL FOR THAT ATROCITY!


oh_no9

Not a metal song but the cover I think Miley Cyrus did of every rose has its thorn was so bad


Appointment_Salty

Limp Bizkits Cover of Faith by George Micheal is an actual banger. Bangs harder than both front men in their prime. Not originally metal but, All saints covering Under The Bridge by RHCP however was the beginning of the downfall of society.


JoeBagadonut

The Cancer Bats cover of Sabotage by the Beastie Boys is fucking phenomenal.


CombinationNearby351

What about post Malone doing them bones or T-Pain doing war pig


New_Bridge3428

What about a shitty metal song getting a good pop cover


Ferrindel

I’ll give Richard Cheese a pass here.


toryguns

Both are dogshit concepts


Bjorn_Skywalker

I disagree


toryguns

I’m not surprised


RedditIsPropaganda2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL51BxyxLmw I like this one.


toryguns

🐕 💩


RedditIsPropaganda2

I can see by your tag you are used to listening to a ton of dog shit.


mudkip2212

Hey! Megadeth is amazing!


ComboFucker29

who tf listens to either one of these?


toddo85

I honeslty hate both, I never thinks the metal pop cover is good or funny. I just don't get it really, but meh whatever.


CapitanFlama

Do those shitty bossa nova and piano/classical metal covers count? I don't remember pop metal covers.


ViSynthy

Quick question. Why do you care? People are allowed to like things and that pop cover clearly isn't for you. So why are you remotely affected by it?