Here are 12 rock and metal cover songs that are better than the originals. Covers songs are always an intriguing concept. Do you try your best to mimic the original? Do you rework the whole song ...

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 ...

You'll also notice that "Heavy Metal" covers a wide variety of styles. From pop-metal to thrash. Enjoy! 25) Krokus - Pay It In Metal: No, I'm not going to say anything. I can't. Yahoo! wouldn't ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Recently we examined the morbid side of the heavy metal genre. But not all metal bands want to remind you that people want to kill you. There are also plenty of bands that want you to forget about ...

More than any other subgenre of rock, and maybe any genre of music as a whole, heavy metal relies on the power of the visual artwork surrounding it. More than anything, this is because metal music is ...

The early '90s were, by and large, a pretty tough time for metal bands in America – what with the post-grunge alternative rock wave that pretty much obliterated image-obsessed pop-metal (errr, no ...

Covering a classic metal song takes a certain amount of finesse. Usually, when a heavy track has reached some level of immortality, it has both a distinct atmosphere and plenty of working parts. A ...