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.

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 ...

In 1997, unassuming crooner Pat Boone did the unexpected: he released an album of rock and heavy metal covers, done in his style. In A Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy was the product of Boone and his ...

There is no exact recipe when it comes to the best thrash metal cover songs. But then you also have Sodom, who just sound like they're having fun while covering a surf rock classic from the 1960s. The ...

The first incarnation of the band had formed in Birmingham in 1969 with a different singer, Al Atkins. Named after the Bob Dylan song The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, they played ...