Cover Songs

passetiermes · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2090 Location: Finland

Have you heard cover songs which are better than originals? Or is it even possible (That is a rhetorical question: " Where the streets have no name" U2 VS. Pet Shop Boys) ? Which fare better than originals or come even close?
I could start with Slayer´s version of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
Also The Luttinen Brothers have made two outstanding covers (Impaled Nazarene´s version of Ghostriders & Legenda´s version of Embers Fire)

Bestial Devastator · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

I don't like Hypocrisy but their version of "Evil Invaders" was excellent

CR99 · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:43 am Post subject:

Yeah, one: Grabschänder - "Totaler Krieg" ("Total War" by ImpNaz).

It's on the Masturbation of the Undead demo 2001, its lyrics are translated in german, the music is much faster, rawer and sicker than the original. For me it's the better version.
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passetiermes · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2090 Location: Finland

Infernal-Regions · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 204 Location: Germania

"Life Eternal" (Mayhem) cover by Gorgorth is really intense !
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CR99 · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:58 am Post subject:

@passetiermes

Grave Desecrator.

I have 2 copies of that demo for trade/sell, the fourth press with lyrics of the intro written on the back of the inlay. Limited to 99 copies.
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Kapalika · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 2126 Location: Germoney

Luciferion - Blasphemer... tight for the first time! Wink

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Guest · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:38 am Post subject:

Don't turn my head, guyz, I know that I'm skatin' on thin ice... Needless to say that the original versions are pretty damn classics, each in its own niche, but I prefer the covers from time to time as they're ass-tight played and maybe it's this wicked "rejuvenation" which makes 'em that damn good, even better in some terms.

Thesyre - Gate of Nanna
- reveals a level of aggression which's not hearable on "Drawing..."

Carpathian Forest - A Forest

Type O' Negative - Black Sabbath
- perfect cover, balanced between fear of the original and courage to give the song a new twisted visage

Taetre - Paint It Black
- shreds the Stones (and foremost Marduk's shitty attempt) to itsy-bitsy pieces

Kapalika · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 2126 Location: Germoney

I forgot to mention Moss - Maimed and Slaughtered (Discharge cover).
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CR99 · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:57 am Post subject:

I happen to like Ammattammen Bas - The Gate Ov Nini (Beherit) as well as the other songs.
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Dodens Grav · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 1540

Not exactly better than the originals, but done very well:

Divine Eve - Visions Of Mortality (Celtic Frost)
Divine Eve - Witching Metal (Sodom)
Eternal Solstice - Outbreak Of Evil (Sodom)

Sepulchral_Vomit · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

ANGELCORPSE with POSSESSED´s "Burning in Hell", KREATOR´s "Pleasure to Kill", SLAYER´s "Kill Again"

Of course ORDER FROM CHAOS with SODOM´s "Nuctemeron", VENOM´s "In the Dead of the Night"/"Senile Decay", and VOIVOD´s "War and Pain"...

Finally REVENGE with BATHORY´s "War", as a crushing demolition hammer

But any surpass the originals anyway....

0%cured · Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 614 Location: Greece

Lobotomized-"Kill Me Or I'll Kill Myself"(Doomed).

Bestial Aggressor · Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 588 Location: London,UK

Sargatanas- Satan's Curse(Possessed): one of the ugliest covers i've heard and almost half the speed as the original. Fucking killer!

Necros Christos- Witchcraft(Beherit): sounds better than the original.

Repugnant- Another Vision(Morbid): haven't heard the original but FUCK!!!! What a great song!
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schadel_reich · Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 846 Location: England

Vulture Lord's cover of the Deliverance song "Lord of Vice" is pretty good, and at times is better than the original. Depends on my mood.