10 Insane Metal Covers of Classic Rock Songs

[@Daniel-ob1vn]

I miss Peter Steele...

[@shawngansert1973]

Me too😢

[@alekszandor]

Me too buddy.😢

[@treestand7994]

Lost one of the best (if not the best).

[@StormbringerI]

Who doesn't😢

[@Samurai_Stoner]

Same

[@JTB--]

That Typo Cover of Cinnamon Girl was Legit AF. Added their own spin on it

[@JC-Beefcake]

Summer Breeze is awesome, too.

[@blutomindpretzel1735]

Beatles medley is pretty great too. Steele was inventive with his covers

[@coryintexity408]

Summer breeze is way better.

[@DavidJacobs-rl1rj]

​@@blutomindpretzel1735 💯

[@DavidJacobs-rl1rj]

​@@coryintexity408 the best!

[@blutomindpretzel1735]

I had no idea Ghost covered a Beatles song. I don't hate it, it totally works

[@bas4116]

You should check out Ghost covering The Stones Sympathy for the devil

[@edwarddreier2958]

Was the bonus track of the 1st album, not on Spotify version

[@DonPandemoniac]

@@bas4116 And 'Jesus he knows me'.

[@hsyeswellitsme]

Really? IMO that doesn't work at all.

[@bendaniels1213]

One of my favorites is metallica covering breadfan by budgie

[@UntillTheEndOfDays]

The fact that crowbar is chosen for their version of no quarter and not TOOL . Is just wow.. wow I’m out haha

[@303HOBO]

I seen your comment before seeing crowbar and yeah that was child play in comparison. Tbh none of these covers were really that great it was like a third string cover song video.

[@sharonrobinson3186]

​@@303HOBOi wasn't impressed lol

[@littleservant]

Actually didn't know The Real Me was a cover, I've only ever known the WASP version. Sounds great live though 🙌

[@QuadsAPaloma]

Quadrophenia is an incredible album. check it out!

[@oreosandoliveoil]

Also Dee Snider rocking out with Lemmy on stage was not on my bingo card. That was awesome

[@robcason9827]

Nightwish cover of High Hopes by Pink Floyd gets to me every time I hear it.

[@bertieblack5639]

It's a brilliant cover but I've got such a personal connection to the original I always end up gravitating to Floyd 😅

[@matwetton]

Over the hills and far away too. Original is Gary moore

[@Neurometry]

If you want an actual insane cover, dimmu borgir did a cover of burn in hell by twisted sister; primal fear did a cover of speed king by deep purple; children of bodom did a cover of lookin out my back door by creedence clearwater revival; deathstars did a cover of white wedding by billy idol; dragonforce did a cover of ring of fire by johnny cash; okay i guess i came up with more than one lmao

[@BIGBLOCK5022006]

Children Of Bodom also did a cover of Aces High, and the Peter Tagtgren band Pain did a cover of The Beatles song Eleanor Rigby.

[@frankunodostres473]

I wish ghost would play that song again... same with btbam and their INSANE rendition of one of the greatest songs of all time!

[@wombles67]

That crowd watching Ghost looked like they were having a great time 😂

[@V3ntilator]

What's insane is Helloween's cover of Hocus Pocus, Megadeth - Duke Nuke'm theme and Chroming Rose's Heavy Birthday.

[@dannygb2]

Anyone else wanna tell us ghost isn't metal, not sure I've heard it enough

[@vietnamd0820]

I would go with Deicide’s cover of Deep Purple’s Black Night

[@parkerraus3402]

I was hoping to see Death's cover of Painkiller, talk about heavy!

[@sniperguyAZ]

lmao painkiller is not a fucking classic rock song

[@IamMichaellucifer13]

Got to say Opeths cover of Iron Maidens remember tomorrow is one of the best covers ever, and they did a cover from Alice in Chains, would, which I think is a phenomenal cover as well.

[@RPRsChannel]

*_MM has done 50+ covers; they are hus best work._* *_TON has many great covers you can only find on bootlegs: Light My Fire, Bad Moon Rising, Back In the U.S.S.R., Un The Flesh._*

[@jamesj199789]

Anyone who hates Ghost for making ridiculous music or being “lame” is completely missing the point of Ghost

[@HeatMiser2025]

Ghost is just a case of false advertising. They look like a Swedish or Norwegian black metal band but sound more like ABBA than Mayhem.

[@jamesj199789]

@@HeatMiser2025which is exactly the point. It’s just having fun

[@hazelhumphreys9512]

They're Bon Jovi for sparklegoths and they fill that incredibly specific niche perfectly.

[@redkaos038]

It's just about Ghost not being a metal band

[@aliejosephvalente]

Missing the point AND missing out

[@antonioezzo3765]

Here comes the sun, was the first song I learned to play on drums, leading a whole orchestra. I was 9 or 10. At that young age, I still made sure I played this song correctly with rock n roll flare. With that being said loudwire, Actual Insane Metal covers: 10: Tool, No Quarter 9: BTBAM, Blackened 8: Death, Painkiller 7: Disturbed, Land Of Confusion 6: Overkill, Frankenstein 5: Helloween, Hocus Pocus 4: Shadows Fall, Bark at the moon 3: Melvins, Into the void 2: Pantera: Planet Caravan 1: Killswitch Engage: Holy Diver

[@FreeIndeed72]

Twisted Sister sharing the stage with MOTORHEAD made it more than rock n roll an' I loved it!😁

[@Kasino80]

That Bohemian Rhapsody cover sounded horrible.

[@dewbee7985]

Hallowed Be Thy Name- Cradle of Filth

[@Kylor80sMetalFan]

W.A.S.P.'s version of The Real Me is one of my favorite covers in all of metal! 🤘😎🎸🤘

[@bobsvagana9623]

you include no quarter cover but not tool? rookie mistake...

[@vietnamd0820]

Motley Crue’s cover of Helter Skelter is more iconic

[@kubicapanis]

What about siouxsie and the Banshees version ? Piercing guitar riffs and getting faster and faster throughout!

[@lovelessmbv1991]

@@kubicapanis i think its okay but i love their version of dear prudence

[@kubicapanis]

@natekalai8706 oh yes , that cover is great too , with Rob Smith playing too , but only reason I didn't initially suggest that too was because of it not being under the heavy criteria in this instance !

[@NigelFortune]

R.I.P Pete Steele 🤘🤘

[@gp2917]

Nothing on this list qualifies as Insane from a metal POV

[@joeaardvark9214]

blahblahblah

[@Milothew1zard]

My personal favorite has to got to be the cover of the stooges “I wanna be your dog” from slayer titled “I’m gonna be your god” 🤘🏿😝🤘🏿 absolute banger in my opinion 🫶🏿

[@MrHilltop77]

Fuck yesss!!!!🏴‍☠️👊🎶

[@tobymillar]

The Crowbar cover is excellent 👌

[@maxwellfrost9701]

I was there at that BTBAM show! Great performance

[@stevsh89]

Alot of these covers are just metal bands playing rock songs, rather than making them metal. Crowbars cover is a great metal version though

[@avelord6135]

Pain -"Eleanor Rigby" Gamma ray -"t's a sin" Disturbed -"Land of confusion" Blind Guardian -"You're the voice" Mors Principium Est - "Hijo De La Luna" Just to name a few much better than the ones chosen for the video 😛

[@andresgonzalez407]

System of A Down - "Snowblind"

[@303HOBO]

Best cover song ever as well as best instrumental song ever is undoubtedly SRVs cover of Little Wing!! I know it’s not metal I’m just throwing it out there.

[@michaeldoyle189]

Skid Row did a great cover as well.

[@conormckeown3691]

some good stuff there - and remember Blackie watches over us all

[@mstorrboy]

Are all these chosen because they're the only non copy right clips you can find?

[@mikeSGman]

Twisted sister in the style of Ted Nugent, I dig it! Anyone else notice that? I wonder if Dee Snider has admitted to Uncle Ted's influce before?

[@TranceMasterJack]

Yep. I noticed that.

[@oreosandoliveoil]

Yes. Sammy Hager too

[@TryAndListenToTheExperience]

Can see Lenny playing bass at 1.33

[@Serbofreak]

Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust.

[@filippomarzot5299]

Pete ❤

[@n.c.3011]

shout out to Acid Bath's cover of 'in-a-gadda-da-vida'

[@toftheboss]

Ghost is a perfect incarnationof Blue Oyster Cult of the 21st century. Great band, mixing heavy stuff and pop. Open minded is the key.❤

[@TommyEngelChannel]

There's a band called Pravus that did a progressive metal version frok king crimson's starless that is kinda insane

[@paulkumpitsch266]

here comes the sun.....

[@miyaaaaw]

If you really want to hear an INSANE metal cover, go listen to Chimaira cover Fascination Street (from The Cure originally)

[@Bong.3D]

01:34 There´s Lemmy supporting Twisted F*cking Sister!

[@yattmanntatt3360]

Me First and Gimmie Gimmies still the King

[@firegod555]

I originally misread the title and thought I'd see stuff like Sepultura's Ludwig Van where they cover a literal classic song 🤣🤣

[@kevinwagner8497]

incase you messed it Lemmy is playing bass for Twisted Sister

[@shanemckenna392]

Iron Maiden did a fun cover of ZZ Top's "Tush."

[@LuxuriousInterior]

The Ghost cover of Here Comes the Sun is lame. Ghost in general is lame

[@7reason]

Agree more

[@B.A.512]

I like Ghosts songs, but can't understand the satanism. 😅

[@yvengeace]

Agree

[@GameHeroEats]

Agreed

[@heethanthen]

Gatekeeping is lame

[@matthewcasey7226]

Cold Sweat is basically a metal song to begin with. Super hard rock.

[@JonMcDermid-qf3nv]

Come on..Dee Snider's cover of the Stones made me want to get up out of my wheelchair and bang my head whilst putting up my devil horns..hands down winner for me..🤟

[@lordmegatron4789]

i kinda dig the war machine cover by six feet under

[@larrydotson2625]

That cover of bohemian rhapsody is...very bad

[@baronvonswankenstein]

Any love for Lacuna Coil’s cover of “Enjoy The Silence” by Depeche Mode ?

[@davidbarton1928]

The Bohemian Rhapsody cover sounds like the Bad News version.

[@oreosandoliveoil]

Ok some of these aren’t bad at all.. especially if the singers match the original singers voice style. Also im a huge fan of Ghost and had no idea they did a Beatles cover 😂

[@rotcivetiel]

Snowblind, by SOAD. PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN, by Type O Negative.

[@WhiteManXRP]

Ghost is corny, king Diamond is much much better

[@edwarddreier2958]

They aren’t even close to being the same thing outside of Theatrics and facepaint, I don’t know if they ever met but id reckon King would appreciate what Tobias is doing

[@stevegiles9080]

Slayer covered la vida

[@vonVile]

Kittie doing "Run Like Hell" by Pink Floyd

[@bannedmadmike4234]

Slayer , Ina gadda Davida.

[@Mr.BradRaven]

Iron Maidens only cover they recorded.. Women in Uniform by legendary rockers The Skyhooks

[@theheeter9181]

Sabaton's cover of Camouflage by Stan Ridgeway

[@baronvonswankenstein]

Ghost is Venom on steroids. So, if Venom (the founders of black metal) is a metal band, so is Ghost.

[@Elegies22]

The word Alive's cover of Pardon Me by Incubus

[@swordman6827]

I am a metal head that loves pink floyd. No band should cover the great pink floyd. It should be illegal. By the way ghost sucks

[@strawhousepig]

Testament - Nobody's Fault (Aerosmith)

[@user-gl5ld9vm7i]

Ghost is not a metal band. They're pop.

[@arturro545]

Cry about it

[@debrahurford8517]

And I have to fucking admit between the buried me did a pretty impressive unique what the fuck kind of cover is this version of queens classic. Robert Plant said if you’re gonna make a cover make it your own, and they put their own spin on it and it was pretty cool.what’s funny I just listen to it after watching this video. I never heard it until now, but it was awesome.

[@czeshirecat6278]

Cba to watch after third one.

[@oreosandoliveoil]

Everyone in the comments hating on Ghost must not have heard their earlier shit because they were definitely metal back then 😂they got some heavy songs if you listen to their earlier catalog

[@georgedeacon8100]

Im sure im going to get shit for this, but they couldnt include Machinehead-message in a bottle Hellyeah- i dont care FFDP- house of the rising sun

[@andrewnordmar7297]

1:55 из моих ушей пошла кровь. Что это? Кто это? Зачем это издевательство над шедевром Queen и ушами слушателей?

[@princealigorna7468]

Shadows Fall do a fantastic Welcome to the Machine

[@greenrobot5]

I love Ghost, but this cover isn't great

[@Salty_Amigo]

Right they should have used their Sympathy for the Devil cover at least.

[@dilfbag]

🤘 😁 🤘

[@GHOST_NEMESIS]

GHOST 🤘🤘🤘

[@debrahurford8517]

Yeah, this ghost cover was whatever. I don’t know why they didn’t mention their really nice decent cover of enter Sandman. I don’t like this band that much though. but I do respect them as musicians. I can understand why people like them. T they don’t rehomed me.

[@TuturDrumz2731]

Ghost😍😍😍

[@JamesGrivera]

Acid bath did in a godadavida

[@Robje300]

There's only one Voivod - Astronomy Domine

[@capsized22]

Frankenbok-Don’t call be baby

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

Man, if you're gonna cover "Bohemian Rhapsody", you'd better not suck. Those guys didn't get the memo.

[@TriglycerideBeware]

Grandpa, what are you doing up past your bedtime again?

[@69mastalon]

Dude, that cover was ass

[@itookallthenames]

Tbf I’ve never heard a good cover of that song, it’s a pretty high bar!

[@TriglycerideBeware]

@@itookallthenames not only has there never been a good cover of Bohemian Rhapsody, there's never been a good live performance of Bohemian Rhapsody, period! Not even by Queen! Even they fell back on the studio recording, especially during the operatic part. That's why I thought it was funny that OP implied that BTBAM sucked because he didn't like a clip of a potato recording of a rare live performance of a cover of a song that is so hard to perform live that not even the original band did it. Grandpa indeed!

[@itookallthenames]

@@TriglycerideBeware heheh that’s certainly fair! You would need a lot of vocalists

[@CircumlunarFeasibility]

I wish they had shown Tales of Brave Ulysses done by Trouble, that is incredible. Some of these were awful.

[@franingegnieri1831]

So many hate comments for ghost 😂😂 you guys are cute

[@cvtdesign82]

Crowbar Dreamweaver

[@starkparker16]

Helter Skelter is more metal than Zombie or Manson.

[@GeoffWelch]

Luv Ghost

[@Babymilk8]

Hi

[@ediacz]

Please listen to Acid Drinkers 2 albums: Fishdick and Fishdick Tzwei... Some weird shit metal covers.

[@javiergimenez7539]

Crowbar covering zeppelin.

[@JJONNYREPP]

It's about loving your mom yer pop and thinking..the tube's twisted schwester.

[@tobymillar]

Blind Guardian covered Queen preadsay ur ingsway its not bad and metal.

[@jeffreysmeaton766]

Umm sleep token hallelujah chops all of these cmon

[@avepaszczur1733]

where acid drinkers?

[@GhostRider-mm6ky]

Sorry Kirk Down is supreme but Tool is far more superior with No quarter

[@danielurenamora1869]

Damn marilyn manson sounds great there

[@spudsucker9489]

Megadaves version of cold sweat sucks

[@Maedroth]

Kalmah did it better.

[@demogothic3716]

How about Slayer inagaddadavida??? Hello???!!