Ranking the WORST and best metal cover songs (oof)

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

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[@shuruff904]

Bro that Kittie take is blasphemy...Poppy is great and all, but not ANYWHERE on their level, her version sounds like a drum and bass cover with some guitar sprinkled in. Kittie sounds like the meme of the girl watching a house burn down, but metal af...what are you smoking because I need some bro

[@Sweat404]

Update: six feet under have 3 cover albums with a 4th on the way. I’m not joking.

[@iTa66]

Finn, you could do an entire video with just "Deftones - B sides and rarities" and another one with "Between the buried and me - the anatomy of"

[@cultus_diabolus]

There will never be anything funnier to me than MGK having an emo phase at the age of 30

[@Ramanahayes]

He’s in his 30s???

[@cultus_diabolus]

@@Ramanahayes 33 as of this year

[@dageek1996]

How about Jared Leto in mid 30’s

[@shakefl]

That sounds even more cringe written out lol

[@Maximus_W]

Bryan Stars emo selfies makes MGK look like a genius

[@FaithFallRepentGraceRepeat]

Orgy is criminally underrated! Candyass & Vapor Transmission are front to back solid albums. They definitely stood out in the new metal scene. They’re aesthetic, their gear and sound were great!

[@Pasterz_Of_Muppets]

Punk Statik Paranoia LP was also amazing.

[@xodanyaelox]

Yes, robur is correct PSP was a great record too.

[@NoOneReallySpecial]

And, they're back with a new album that is also great! :)

[@piratealeks6865]

I KNOW they’re great!

[@kdawg789]

Their 5 good songs are classic, the rest.....

[@joshcornwell6061]

Saw LB with Korn before 3 dollar came out and to be honest...faith was totally insane to hear live. I had to get their tape mailed to me. I'm old af.

[@firefox1033]

You should do a whole Misfits cover tier list. Literally every punk band has covered them so it could be a whole a series. AFI, Aiden, Goldfinger, Avenged Sevenfold, Green Day, Alkaline Trio, Dropkick Murphy's, Sum 41, Bethemath and even Buck O Nine have all done Misfits covers. And that's just scratching the surface.

[@benamisai-kham5892]

You just mentioning Aiden made my day, thank you. Their cover of white wedding is also amazing. (sincerely, an emo who didn't have friends that knew any of my music)

[@JiggyWilson]

The NOFX cover of "Last Caress" is GREAT 😂

[@firefox1033]

@@benamisai-kham5892 Agreed. Aiden rocks. I've seen them and William Control many times. It sucks that Will is done playing shows though. But atleast he still releases music once in a while.

[@michaeldugan3544]

The Lemonheads cover of Skulls is pretty rad too

[@benamisai-kham5892]

Another great cover, not metal but a fantastic cover nonetheless, is Sublime's cover of The Descendants 'Hope'

[@WallaceTheRed]

I spend the full runtime of these videos trying to pick which soundbite is gonna be the closer and Finn surprises me every time.

[@RatelHBadger]

I'm only halfway through and I'm picking 6 Feet Under TNT

[@whatistau]

I recently discovered Type O Negative, they have damn good catchy songs, the voice is unique, the writing is outlandish. Would be very cool to see a solo video on them.

[@vishalnagaraj5343]

"World Coming Down" is easily in my top 10 albums of all time. 🤘🏽

[@hands_media]

Faith was the first time I heard anything akin to screaming and that basically changed my life.

[@barrygomez5968]

Same

[@VoyageOne1]

I was not a fan of the screaming as a kid but I've grown to appreciate it's satirical spectacle.

[@shanevstheworld]

We got so many nu metal bands covering 80s one hit wonders, but never any 80s one hit wonders covering nu metal. I need Dexy's Midnight Runners covering "Nookie." We all need that.

[@lordtrigon1733]

If I ever heard Flock of Seagulls cover Static-X I would die a happy man.

[@RatelHBadger]

Give Kevin Rowland half a chance and he just might. He's all about the weird and different.

[@pekerhed101]

If you're going to include Type O Negative, then why not use their "Summer Breeze" cover song instead? It slaps.

[@JacksContent]

Have you heard their Highway Star cover?? ITS AMAZING

[@DOWNPOUR_]

paranoid ? black sabbath? paranoid is my favorite cover of theirs personally

[@pekerhed101]

@@DOWNPOUR_ I haven't heard it. They must've covered it after I got burned out on Type-O. I was pretty much Bloody Kisses and then moved on.

[@pekerhed101]

@@JacksContent I haven't heard it. They must've covered it after I got burned out on Type-O. I was pretty much Bloody Kisses and then moved on.

[@DOWNPOUR_]

@@pekerhed101 highly suggest you check out their later projects . both october rust , world coming down , and life is killing me are all three amazing albums . their last , dead again is also pretty good , but not near as good as the other last three . highly suggest you check them out man

[@TonyToneBone56-ho9op]

Hell even Pantera is covering Pantera these days.

[@zora4527]

Best cover song from a band I’ve heard is My Chem’s Desolation Row cover. It captures the My Chem vibe, but has more of that punk sensibility. Goes hard. It’s both unique from the original and is just a banger. I didn’t even realize it was a cover at first.

[@augenmaugen]

I didn’t know Cinnamon Girl was a cover until years later either. Neil Young’s version is fantastic, super cool vibe. Type O did a killer job turning it into a different song that’s equally as good.

[@Sweat404]

Body count’s cover of reign in blood is an awesome slayer cover Edit: and Ice T’s cover of institutionalized was also awesome

[@soysaucehairdye7869]

Flyleaf did a good NiN cover back in the day. The greatest cover to me will always be Cap'n Jazz 'Take on Me' and I consider A-ha metal since they are from Norway.

[@locoberzerker]

The best covers are where they totally rebuild the song but still capture the original spirit of the song. My personal favorite is by a trio of Indian musicians called Beard of Harmony who cover "Right in Two" by Tool on a rooftop. You can hear the ambience of the city and dogs barking the background. The bass player uses a stand-up bass and you can see the strings vibrating due to the frame rate. It gives me chills every time I hear it.

[@pranavnnair5]

Trivium's cover of Master of Puppets is absolutely fantastic and even sounds better than the original in some places. Their cover of Slave New World by Sepultura is great as well. Their covers are extremely underrated and never get the attention that they deserve.

[@ChineseCheeseSqueeze]

Their cover of the song Iron Maiden rips too

[@ChipmunkAsylum]

Yeah hard disagree with the Trivium cover there. It’s ok at best, Matt Heafy sounds like he’s trying to imitate Hetfield too much in his vocals

[@BKLYN_TZU]

The best cover band I've seen is the Linkin Park cover band Hybrid Theory

[@Darrkness]

That's hilarious because Linkin Park went by Hybrid Theory when they first went out on tour.

[@BKLYN_TZU]

@@Darrkness Darrkness that's the true it's funny as hell I remember that was one of their names before they settled on Linkin Park but the Electronic group Hybrid threatened them with a lawsuit over the name because it was similar to their group name fast forward to now there's a cover band using that name 😂

[@nemijs]

@@DarrknessT…That’s probably why they chose that name as a coverband for Linkin Park!

[@jynxycats]

ABR opened one of their recent tours with Chop Suey on the PA, as if the venue was playing it just cause. Then the band comes out mid song and goes right into their cover. Coolest fucking opener to any show I've been to in a long long time.

[@nathanthomson1931]

Wolves at the Gate is dropping a cover album with sick metalcore covers of Incubus, 30 Seconds to Mars, Linkin Park, 21 Pilots, Deftones and more. They're seriously great covers. Heathens, Breaking the Habit, and Pardon Me are all on KZbin and they're so good. Peeps need to check them out!

[@augenmaugen]

I think a great cover has to transform the song, while still landing on something equally as brilliant. The Bauhaus cover of Ziggy Stardust is a perfect example. True covers are fun to hear once, but only once.

[@lordtrigon1733]

Gotta disagree about Spit, I like Kittie's version better specifically because it's so raw and unrefined. It's as honest an expression of adolescent rage as you'll find in nu metal -a genre literally built on that (and I mean that as a compliment).

[@KMFDM781]

That period where industrial/nu-metal bands covered 80's and new wave songs: Blue Monday by Orgy, Dope doing Spin Me Right Round, Coal Chamber with Shock the Monkey, Deadsy and Tom Sawyer, etc.

[@Durkhead]

Didn't dope do fuck the police? That shit was badass

[@benamisai-kham5892]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that remembers Dope and their fantastic cover. It was so fun.

[@burnout1256]

I’ve been a huge ABR fan, they play chop suey over the speakers during their concerts right before they hit the stage, so when they released chop suey it was so hype, and to see them run on stage halfway through chop suey playing on the speakers to pick up and actually play the song was incredible

[@YenShively]

Their Westworld cover is one of my absolute faves. Chop Suey is great too!

[@abunai.j]

Man, we need Ill Nino on these covers lists... Their cover of Faith No More - Zombie Eaters was so dope. While we're here, how about Nonpoint's cover of In The Air Tonight? Stellar cover.

[@Gummibri]

Faith is S tier.

[@matthewwalter5432]

Preach

[@kdawg789]

Classic

[@dumdumchord]

Wishlist for next time: Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan) Fear Factory - Your Mistake (Agnostic Front?) Mushroomhead - Crazy (Seal)

[@travisdwheat]

Finn saying “non ironically” 5 times for Orgy like it’s a word is the best part lol

[@dannorris642]

Never heard Poppy's Kittie cover. Whoever dissed Kittie is wrong; they were teens when they made Spit. The roughness added some scrappy charm to it. Also, Orgy covering New Order was exceptional. New Order are an S-tier band. They're not just a post-punk band. They quite successfully went pop (I remember hearing Bizarre Love Triangle and True Faith at the skating rink, as a little kid) and became one of the most influential bands in alternative music, really.

[@jonathanporter5223]

August Burns Red also did a cover of the Zelda theme song and its epic AF.

[@NottyGurlStyle]

To this day I still blast Blue Monday by Orgy..it’s definitely one of my most favorite covers to listen to. When I bought the first album of Limp BIzkit and heard Faith..I loved it! I love George Michael and never heard the song covered like that before. Seeing them in concert when they played that song, mosh pits opened up all over! Good fxking times for me. I love Type o Negative Cinnamon Girl, they also covered Summer Breeze which I love. Tho not on the list I love Marilyn Manson covering Soft Cell Tainted Love and Metallica covering Tuesday’s Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[@lightfeather9953]

Cinnamon girl is one of my favorite Neil Young songs. Sounds good live. The cover takes away how dynamic melodic and heavy it is

[@vandalistica]

Mansons covers are pretty sweet, better than probably everything after GAOTG.

[@WolfieboyMachi]

It's a long shot, but hoping you'll check out The Kovenant's version of Spaceman by Babylon Zoo, and Khonsu's version of Army of Me by Björk. Both are very different from the originals. The latter being even barely recognizable, yet SO good. Super atmospheric. Oh, and also Imaginary Flying Machines' version of Tonari no Totoro. The theme from the Ghibli movie My Neighbour Totoro. It's bonkers, and the vocalist is INSANE.

[@millerhxc]

I also didn't know for years that Cinnamon Girl was a cover. I already loved it as a standalone song but it's also a really interesting take on the original.

[@theodoresorrow]

You need to hear Spider God’s Black Renditions. It’s black metal covers of Britney, Christina, Backstreet Boys, Bieber, Twice, Kanye etc. etc.

[@princevaughn1849]

Such a good album!

[@testingmyaudioaddiction3452]

The crazy part of the Chop Suey cover by ABR is that they use that song to warm up.

[@undone14]

You gotta check out Korns cover of “Would” or “We Car A Lot!” They even remixed Rihanna’s “B**** better have my money”!

[@user-yi7td2sq9b]

Type O Negative's cover of Paranoid is really good too

[@worksofein6449]

What a trip. Glad to see that orgy cover getting some love. The Poppy "Spit" cover sounds rad, gonna have to check that out.

[@chadmiller5702]

Super glad you like the Orgy cover. Was gonna flip a lid of not 😂😂 Candyass is a super interesting and progressive album as far as nu metal goes as well.

[@PalmelaHanderson]

Goddamn Blue Monday is a good song. 1999 was a wild time. You remember when we all just collectively decided everyone should listen to industrial disco metal? What a time to be alive. There was a brief moment when Orgy, Static X, Powerman 5000, Rob Zombie, and Rammstein were all topping the charts at the same time. And I mean TOPPING the charts, like they were the most popular music in the world. Tune into TRL at any given moment and you'd see the beautiful bastards of Orgy or the Static X dude (R.I.P.) with his liberty spiked cylinder hair. So much hair gel. What a time.

[@timewave02012]

I think Wayne used school glue to keep the spike up.

[@UnhumanNewman]

Nekrogoblinkon’s cover of Chop Suey! Is great IMO. Edit - Also I’m upset there’s no mention of the greatest (cover) band in the world, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies! And yes I know they’re no metal but neither is MGK 🤷‍♂️

[@friendlypirahna]

That Poppy cover sounds great. Yet another musician I got into because of PRMBA

[@controlZchannel]

Type O Negative's best cover is Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.

[@DONNICOMUSIC]

Summer breeze is my fav

[@brycev.5170]

​@@DONNICOMUSICand paranoid

[@Darrkness]

My favorite was always It Dies Today's cover of Enjoy the Silence. And Thrice did a great cover of Carol of the Bells.

[@rdp16rulez]

Did you hear Breaking Benjamin's cover of Enjoy the Silence? If so what did you think of it?

[@Darrkness]

@@rdp16rulez I'm not a fan of BB but I listened to it twice. It's nice and very well produced for its time. I think it's a little too close to the original DM but... I don't know if that's their style. I dig the howls at the end.

[@MrKamex]

Metallica can be put in the S+ tier again for the Mercyful Fate Medley. 11 Minutes of FIRE

[@stevenfunderburg1623]

I literally had my fingers poised over my keyboard after Finn said "A for effort"...but he wisely and hilariously corrected course immediately 🤣😂🤣🤣

[@phildaly3561]

Lawnmower Deth - Kids In America Acid Reign - Hangin' on the Telephone Fudge Tunnel - Sunshine of Your Love Buzzov.en - Don't Bring Me Down Motorhead - Motorhead

[@WickedWitchOfOz1]

Orgy's Blue Monday is the best cover I have ever heard. They took a good original song (New Order isn't for everyone haha), kept the heart of it but slapped it with their soul! They made it better! Orgy's cover of that song and Nine Inch Nails cover of "Dead Souls" by Joy Division (fun fact, Joy Division is New Order) are the two covers, in my opinion, who did it better than the original.

[@social_daze]

You missed out on some absolute BANGERS like SOAD covering WuTangs "Shame on a N", or It Dies Today covering Enjoy the Silence, Head Automatica covering "Pulling Muscles From a Shell" and of course any number of legendary Deftones covers like Simple Man or The Cars' Drive. Far covering Ginuwines Pony is another one. Even more popular ones like KoRn doing Ice Cubes Wicked or Suicide Silece doing Engine #9 are dope. I'm gonna say that besides Suicide Silece and maybe Far, every one of those are S & A teir and are in permanent rotation on my playlists. Love your channel Finn and hope to see a Part 3 🤘🏼

[@Eclecticompany]

I'm curious how a Six Feet Under cover of November Rain would sound. I think rock or metal covers of New Order songs would sound better than the original more often than not.

[@Samzillah]

There are some metal cover bands out there! We have a lot of small venues in my town that do rock cover shows and quite a few are metal. I went to a show a couple months ago and it was one band but when they play Slayer they go as 'Disciple' and when they play Pantera they go as 'Cowboys From Hell'. They did both for a show one night and it was awesome. My dad who was seen both in concert many times said they were just as good as the original band and said it was a great experience for someone who would never be able to afford to go to a real concert.

[@thelichbeats]

Trivium's cover of Slave New World is pretty rad! These are all super valid takes :)

[@trevorsnow]

I always wished A7X used their own guitar tone for Walk. Would have been ✨ S I C K ✨

[@MetalBere]

Love Orgy's cover of New Order - Blue Monday. For me, it's better than the original too

[@acerimmer8338]

Metallica best cover band ever. And thanks to Finn for introducing me to Poppy. She's pretty badass. Next time you do one of the Cover tier-lists, throw some NFG on there. They got 3 cover albums/EPs and some are pretty excellent.

[@danielstarr9037]

A7X Walk was very well done. You’ve got to really know how to play to pull that off

[@kwilcox417]

Favorite cover of all time probably has to be Fear Factory's Cars who they did WITH Gary Numan.

[@lacritzer3070]

we not gonna talk about Type O- Negative's cover of "Summer Breeze" or the dumpster fire that was Limp Bizkit's cover of "Behind Blue Eyes"???

[@ShallowgravesRR]

While six feet under is bad thanks to Chris barnes….terry butler, Greg call and Steve Swanson are some of the best death metal musicians, they are S Tier while Chris continues to be F tier.

[@josefk.122]

And KoRn doing “Wicked” was legitimately impressive af

[@ESOLeroyJenkins]

Next to Type O you have Life of Agony - Don’t you. Life of Agony had quite a few really good covers. Keith/Mina and co still killing it to this day too.

[@MacanWigit]

Orgy actually has three albums nback in 2000s. I'm one of the three people who legitimately liked them back in the days and still following all of their post-Orgy bands (including the new Orgy).

[@agirlsname7159]

For AC/DC cover redemption check out Godflesh - For Those About to Rock. Great example of making it their own with full integrity.

[@T3CHN0M4D]

Type O Covers are great. They always make it their own. I even think their Cover of Black Sabbath (the Song by Black Sabbath) is better than the Original. And Hey Pete (Hey Joe Cover) is also great.

[@spanishginger]

Kittie were barely legal adults when they wrote spit. They are much better musicians now and Morgan is a much better vocalist.

[@HauntedLuci]

Hey Finn, you keep doing covers of System of a Down, but what about System of a Down's cover of Snowblind by Black Sabbath?! Their version is one of the most different and unique takes when compared to the original!

[@rdp16rulez]

I also love their cover of Metro. But in fairness, I think that I may have only heard the original Metro once.

[@kennyb8260]

My band in high school covered this version of faith we got kicked off stage at the school talent show….3$bill was the heaviest album I had ever heard at 13 and then it was down the rabbit hole from there

[@ky1le750]

The best A7X cover is Wish You Were Here which I think was released on "The Stage" deluxe edition or something. Also unrelated but Post's country covers are all S tier and i think hes doing Stagecoach this year LMAO

[@noroom4commies086]

You can do this cover list thing quite a few times. My favorite cover? Bullet for my Valentine - welcome home (sanitarium) metallica cover. I like it more than the original. And it has its own flavor on it. Avengeds cover of retrovertigo is also a banger. Those are two of my favorite covers.

[@alejandroschmid88]

Hey Finn, have some suggestions for a next part of this video. -Any song from Undisputed Attitude by Slayer -Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm -Sweet Dreams or Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson -American Woman by An*l C*nt -Sad but True by Royal Blood

[@TheMikZino]

Agreed with Orgy! Love them! That cover is amazing, and the rest of the album is killer too.

[@TheMidwestPatriot]

Metallica’s cover of whiskey in the jar by Thin Lizzy is excellent!!

[@isaacnewby6738]

The only thing I know about Orgy is that my buddy Sam gave the lead singer a blowie in Portland at the coliseum. Still one of his favorite stories to tell.

[@ashleemons]

One of the best metal covers I have heard in the last year was Shadow of Intent’s cover of Laid to Rest. Shit was awesome

[@Fleato]

Good cover. Sounds so close but with updated production.

[@narwhaljenkem347]

august burns red does incredible covers

[@DrBdan8]

One of my big regrets in life is that when I moved 3 years ago I got rid of 75% of my CD collection, thinking I had most ripped to MP3. Then I realized I didn't have Orgy's Candyass ripped :( Such an underrated nu metal album.

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

There is Korn cover band in Brazil, called Freaks.

[@threeheadedmane9655]

NO SUGARCOMA??? ARE YOU BEATING MY MEAT RN??? BRO

[@Vioscillate]

shoutouts to the guy in chat that said "wing me the horizon at applebees!" legend

[@thadavidrain]

You keep that lineup out of Portugal, Finn. We don't want Bizkit, MGK and Six Feet Under 😂

[@michaelsantangelo6192]

Type O Negative is my favorite band as far as covers. They would preserve the original integrity of the song while also making it their own. Their cover of the song Black Sabbath is one of the darkest things I've ever heard.

[@graciegrimmer1311]

Limp's cover of Welcome home will never be topped

[@thehashdude1983]

When I saw August Burns Red last year they opened in an ultimate way... The in between babe music was playing, then chop suey came on and while fried was singing and having fun then outta nowhere august Burns Red appeared and continued the song and that was how they started their set it was fucking epic

[@riddles610]

'You should check out From Ashes To New covering Paramore's 'Decode' or Bad Omens covering Duran Duran's 'Come Undone' ! Very good

[@jaimesantiagolonga]

Agreed with Matt Greiner being one of the best drummers around today. Such a great and genuine guy too

[@jasons2210]

Six Feet Under is a band I genuinely cant help but start laughing when I hear them.

[@brycev.5170]

Lol?!!!!!!!!! Eeeeeeeeee

[@Hipno702]

As far as pantera covers go, In This Moment’s cover of I’m Broken is top tier imo

[@brett2015]

Should’ve done Limp Bizkit’s cover of Metallica’s Sanitarium. That shit is actually really good

[@rorybninetythree]

I watched a system of a down cover band called Chop Suey play recently in the UK. Their bassist was Sam Totman from Dragonforce.

[@mattpetty448]

Hairball is a cover band that does ...you guessed it, Hair Metal!

[@liamfitzgerald7528]

The Limp cover video reminded me of how many bands (and video directors) spent the 90s copying the Beastie Boys early 90s videos.

[@spuderman4458_]

Poppy's cover of Spit is so much better than the original imo

[@chiefbrownfart]

My butt hurts more than it ever has in my entire life right now Finn, putting Limp Bizkit's Faith cover anywhere but S tier is just plain wrong. Story time: I remember begging my dad to buy me Three Dollar Bill Yall when it came out because I saw the Faith music video on MTV. So that weekend we went to a little hole in the wall record shop and he got it for me. I then proceeded to put it in the CD player of our forest green Nissan Quest van and skipped straight to Faith. As soon as it got like halfway through the song my dad goes "this is way better than the original" I was like "what?" I had no clue it was a cover at the time, my dad then proceeded to tell me that it was better than George Michael because "it wasn't gae as sh*t like that fairy f@gg0+$ version." Hey... his words not mine. Then I remember like a year or two after Limp Bizkit dropped TDBY George Michael came out of the closet on TV and my dad was like "see, I told you he was a pickle puffing f@gg0+." Again... his words not mine, what do you expect from an old school military guy. 🤣🤣

[@ancientdolphintofualmondma2863]

Metallica's cover of Anti-Nowhere League's "So What" was better than Last Caress.

[@antonionavalhas5524]

I'm from Portugal and confirm it, we could have that line up in any random festival here

[@WC_Beer_Reviews]

I think Faith gets a pass due to its cultural timing. No one says its an amazing cover, everyone just loves where they were in life when it came out!🤙🫶

[@xodanyaelox]

Orgy had 3 albums back in the day... they all had very different directions for the songs... the final one punk statik paranoia was a banger like candyass... love me some orgy still, and Ryan and amir's julien-k as well ❤

[@wadeb5042]

One of my all-time favorite rock/punk/metal/core covers is “Sour Breath” by TDWP, originally by Julien Baker.

[@HailTheApocalypse]

Wes Borland's legacy will not be tainted. Wes is a very underrated guitarist to begin with. Wes is a beast

[@valliedollx]

I loved the Limp Bizkit cover of Metallica's Welcome Home.