The Top 20 Heavy Metal Cover Versions Ranked, from Rainbow and Saxon to Marilyn Manson and Joan Jett, celebrating the genre’s boldest reimagined classics.

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 ...

In the realm of popular (that is to say, non-classical) music, the metal and country genres might, at first glance, seem about as far apart as you can get. It's hard to discern any obvious link ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

10. Nickelback w/ Kid Rock and Dimebag Darrell, “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” (Elton John cover, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle OST, 2003) The two biggest salt-of-the-earth figures of ...

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 ...

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