Hammer’s Top 100 Metal Covers!

Come inside to find out our top 100 covers, as voted for by…erm…us!

With the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s seminal ‘Nevermind’ seeing cover songs popping up all over the place (we even saw Between The Buried And Me bust out ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ on Tuesday night), we at Hammer Towers put our heads together and came up with 100 classic covers.

So, without further ado and all that, here are 100 of the best covers by great metal bands, covers of great metal songs and covers that we just think are fucking badass. Read on! (Original artists in brackets)

Pantera – Hole In The Sky (Black Sabbath)
Metallica – Stone Cold Crazy (Queen)
Megadeth – Anarchy In The UK (Sex Pistols)
Judas Priest – Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)
Faith No More – Easy (Commodores)
Anthrax – Antisocial (Trust)
Arch Enemy – Aces High (Iron Maiden)
Black Label Society – The Wizard (Black Sabbath)
Black Sabbath – Evil Woman (Crow)
Cancer Bats – Sabotage (Beastie Boys)
Fear Factory – Cars (Gary Numan)
Cradle Of Filth – Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden)
Graveworm – Fear of The Dark (Iron Maiden)
Children Of Bodom – Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
Graveworm – Losing My Religion (R.E.M.)
Deathstars – White Wedding (Billy Idol)
Machine Head – Hole In The Sky (Black Sabbath)
Sepultura – Symptom Of The Universe (Black Sabbath)
Machine Head – Battery (Metallica)

Metal Hammer – Ep 6 pt 2: The Greatest Music Ever Created And How It Ruined Our Lives on MUZU.TV

Johnny Cash – Hurt (Nine Inch Nails)
Type O Negative – Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)
Cathedral – Solitude (Black Sabbath)
Korn – Word Up! (Cameo)
DevilDriver – Wasted Years (Iron Maiden)
Doro – Breaking The Law (Judas Priest)
Faith No More – War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
In Flames – Everything Counts (Depeche Mode)
Iron Maiden – Doctor Doctor (UFO)
Judas Priest – The Green Manalishi (Fleetwood Mac)
Killswitch – Holy Diver (Dio)
Lacuna Coil – Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)
Pantera – Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath)
Limp Bizkit – Faith (George Michael)

Limp Bizkit – Fred Durst Interview on MUZU.TV

Marilyn Manson – Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Korn – One (Metallica)
Biohazard – After Forever (Black Sabbath)
White Zombie – Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath)
Machine Head – Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden)
Metallica – Whisky In The Jar (Thin Lizzy)*
Fear Factory – School (Nirvana)
Type O Negative – Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
Sebastian Bach– Children Of The Damned (Iron Maiden)
Evanescence – Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana)
Children Of Bodom – Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
Van Halen – You Really Got Me Now (The Kinks)
Crowbar – Remember Tomorrow (Iron Maiden)
Motörhead – The Trooper (Iron Maiden)

Iron Maiden – The Trooper on MUZU.TV

Children Of Bodom – Aces High (Iron Maiden)
Dark Tranquillity – 22 Acacia Avenue (Iron Maiden)
HIM – Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)
Nirvana – The End (The Doors)
Marilyn Manson – Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode)
Bring me The Horizon – Eyeless (Slipknot)
Static-X – Behind The Wall Of Sleep (Black Sabbath)
Slayer – Hand Of Doom (Black Sabbath)
Metallica – Sabbra Cadabra (Black Sabbath)
Metallica – Overkill (Motörhead)
Mastodon – Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top)
Children Of Bodom – She Is Beautiful (Andrew WK)
Megadeth – Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
Napalm Death – Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Dead Kennedys)
Nightwish – Phantom Of The Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Opeth – Remember Tomorrow (Iron Maiden)
Ozzy – 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson)
Iced Earth – Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden)
Rage Against The Machine – Renegades Of Funk (Afrika Bambaataa)
Sepultura – Firestarter (The Prodigy)
Monster Magnet – Into The Void (Black Sabbath)
Pantera – Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath)
Skindred – Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant)
System Of A Down – The Metro (Berlin)
Marilyn Manson – Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)
System Of A Down – Snowblind (Black Sabbath)
Turisas – Rasputin (Boney M)
Iced Earth – Highway To Hell (AC/DC)
Within Temptation – Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
Guns N’ Roses – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan)
Jimi Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
Children Of Bodom – War Inside My Head (Suicidal Tendencies)
Disturbed – Land Of Confusion (Genesis)
Cradle Of Filth – Temptation (Heaven 17)
Dimmu Borgir – Burn In Hell (Twisted Sister)
Richard Cheese – Enter Sandman (Metallica)

Metal Hammer – Metallica Side Stage At Sonisphere 2011 on MUZU.TV

Sepultura – Orgasmatron (Motörhead)
Guns N’ Roses – Live And Let Die (Paul McCartney)
William Shatner – Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
Nightwish – Walking In The Air (that Snowman film)
Godflesh – Zero The Hero (Black Sabbath)
Limp Bizkit – Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
Bonded By Blood – The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Theme (from the Teena- oh you know the rest)
Iced Earth – Creatures Of The Night (KISS)
Sleep – Snowblind (Black Sabbath)
Anthrax – Remember Tomorrow (Iron Maiden)
Slayer – Guilty Of Being White (Minor Threat)
Korn – Fight The Power (Public Enemy)
Blind Guardian – Surfin’ USA (The Beach Boys)
Sonata Arctica – Out In The Fields (Gary Moore)
Megadeth – These Boots (Nancy Sinatra)
Metallica – Astronomy (Blue Oyster Cult)
Iced Earth – God Of Thunder (KISS)

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