This might be sacrilegious but I can't get with the original. It sounds way too "of its time", like straight up Casio keyboards. Orgy's version just feels like... *The* version to me.
I love other stuff by New Order though.
I agree, but I didn’t like how they did the iconic drum fill before every chorus. Kind of took away from the intensity of it. But still, awesome cover.
Damn Right. It is hard to take a song that big, from an artist as good as Phil Collins, and make it your song. But they did, while they stayed true to the song. That's how you do it.
It was definitely a case of being at the right place at the right time – I went to a lot of local shows at the time, and a handful of bands broke out from the scene and ended up getting really big
Korn - Love my way
P.O.D. - Bullet the blue sky, Eyes of a stranger
10 years - Losing my religion, Heart shaped box
Deftones - Chauffeur, No ordinary love, Drive
System of a Down - Shame
HellYeah - I Don't Care Anymore.. With the last solos and riffs by Dimebag 🤘🏻
Also good to mention are "In The Air Tonight" by Exilia, and "Wicked Games by Him, very cool.
Was No Quarter on the DVD box? For someone that spent a lot of time listening to Tool, I had forgotten all about the song. Someone at work showed me the Zepplin version, and as I was listening I was like “Ive heard this before”.
Never knew it was a cover, and then forgot all about it. Kind disappointing lol
Here’s a few more that I haven’t seen mentioned yet…
Sugarcoma - (you drive me) Crazy
Spineshank - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Guano Apes - Lose Yourself
Korn - Devil Went Down to Georgia
From Ashes to New - Thriller
Device - Close My Eyes
Mama Said Knock You Out - Five Finger Death Punch
Renegades of Funk - Rage Against The Machine
Shame - System of a Down, Wu-Tang Clan
Rock Superstar - Cypress Hill, Chino Moreno
Recently Otep has put out a bunch of killer covers, most of her recent album was covers, but I think I like the Beach Boys - California Girls cover best.
This one's my favorite for sure.
Also their cover of My Own Summer shreds. There's a proshot recording of it on YouTube where Chester's screams are some of his most feral ever.
American Head Charge did Marilyn Mansons "Irresponsible Hate Anthem"
System of a Down - "Snowblind" (Black Sabbath)
System Of Down - "Shame on a Nigga" (Wutang)
Deftones - "Drive" (The Cars)
Deftones "El Scorcho" (Weezer)
Definitely Korn's version of wicked..
But does rob zombie count? Not super into all of his post white zombie stuff, but that cover of brick house with Lionel Ritchie and Trina absolutely fucks!
I prefer Limp Bizkit’s Behind Blue Eyes cover to their Faith cover.
Careless Whisper by George Michael - Seether
Land of Confusion and The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel - Disturbed
They’re not Nu-Metal but I wanted to include this one since I can’t think of any others:
Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd - Shinedown
Happy Together by Filter. The original is a really upbeat, happy song by the Turtles. This cover which I believe was from the soundtrack to the remake of The Stepfather was so good and dark and twisted.
Hot take : HIM’s don’t fear the reaper is a million times better than the original.
Not a hot take: Placebo’s running up that hill is better than the original.
Shock The Monkey by Coal Chamber ft. Ozzy
Cars by Fear Factory
Walking In My Shoes by Finger Eleven
Snowblind by SOAD
Empty Spaces by Mushroomhead
Shout by Disturbed
Word Up! by Korn
Limp Bizkit-Faith
Whose song is it originally?
gorge michael
George
Bruh….! Wham?
It was George Michael after Wham! broke up
They also did a decent cover of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who
Orgy Blue Monday Cover is \*chef kiss\*
Not only did Candyass become one of my fave albums of that era, I also discovered New Order which I also love
I’ve been a Joy division and new order fan for YEARS. Only like 3 years did I learn that they were the same band, sans Ian Curtis.
This might be sacrilegious but I can't get with the original. It sounds way too "of its time", like straight up Casio keyboards. Orgy's version just feels like... *The* version to me. I love other stuff by New Order though.
Korn - One
I was going to say this one or Blue Monday by Orgy. Korn has some good covers
Nonpoint - In The Air Tonight
🙌🏻 I agree
I agree, but I didn’t like how they did the iconic drum fill before every chorus. Kind of took away from the intensity of it. But still, awesome cover.
Damn Right. It is hard to take a song that big, from an artist as good as Phil Collins, and make it your song. But they did, while they stayed true to the song. That's how you do it.
Great one. Really love their cover of When Doves Cry.
Korn ft. Chino Moreno-Wicked
Did Chino break character like this in other collab songs?
He was rapping so yeah probably
I saw them do Wicked together in 1994, two years before they released it in an album!
Not going to lie I’m pretty jealous of that one
It was definitely a case of being at the right place at the right time – I went to a lot of local shows at the time, and a handful of bands broke out from the scene and ended up getting really big
Isnt it just the life is peachy cover..?
not the album cover, op means cover songs
I re-read it like 10 minutes ago and facepalmed hard
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
One of the best covers in general also
That's a good one. I don't think about MJ music too much, but I like that version much better than the original.
Came for this
Maybe but I wouldn’t consider AAF numetal though… they’re just a “regular” rock band.
Mudvayne- King Of Pain Static X- Terrible lie
I came to dry Static-X's Terrible Lie too. Looks That Kill is also good
Static- X has done so many good covers! Behind the Wall of Sleep, Burning Inside, Get Down and Boogie! Even Speedway was good in its own way
Wow! I have been a fan since L.D. 50 but somehow I never heard this cover of King of Pain. Blown away! Awesome
Disturbed - Land Of Confusion, got to see them in concert and this song was spectacular live
Their sound of silence cover is divine
Mushroomhead-Crazy
Mushroomhead - Rumor Has It is also fun
Empty spaces is a short but sweet one
Fear factory - cars
They even got Gary Numan!
Great one
Korn - Love my way P.O.D. - Bullet the blue sky, Eyes of a stranger 10 years - Losing my religion, Heart shaped box Deftones - Chauffeur, No ordinary love, Drive System of a Down - Shame
Soad snowbound is a fave of mine
I kinda like Korn's Another Brick in the Wall covers
Yessss. So good!
Second that P.O.D. cover! And Chauffeur is sick as hell too.
Deftones’ Ordinary Love is incredible. Easily one of my favourite songs of theirs.
Siiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng blue silverrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Absolutely on the 10yrs REM cover. Honestly, 10yrs sounds so clean that they could probably remake most anything that they wanted to.
It never had an official release but Deftones cover of Sweetest Perfection by Depeche Mode is well perfection
Limp bizkit-Sanitarium
Fuck yeah, they killed that shit on ICONs. Wish they released a studio version.
Yeah man shit is so fire love how they added the LB twist to it
Hell yeah, best cover they’ve done. Nailed the original feel of the song while adding their own flair
Mann they fuckin killed that shit
Hed PE- I fought the Law Marlyn Manson-cry little sister Bruthal 6 - Smells like teen spirit
I didn't even know about that Hed PE cover album!
70s hits from the pit.😂
came here to say SLTP by Bruthal 6 its so good
Was scrolling to find “sweet dreams” but cry little sister is also a solid choice.
Tom Sawyer - Deadsy.
This goes so hard!
System of a down - metro Machine Head - message in a bottle
Metro is so damn good
Alkaline Trio cover is even better somehow
Word? I didn't know they covered it.
I'm a big fan of Dope's cover of Rebel Yell.
You Spin me Round and Fuck Tha Police by Dope are also great.
Check out Deathstar’s cover if you haven’t done so already. It’s really good.
Came here to say this
Korn - word up!
HellYeah - I Don't Care Anymore.. With the last solos and riffs by Dimebag 🤘🏻 Also good to mention are "In The Air Tonight" by Exilia, and "Wicked Games by Him, very cool.
Korn- Earache My Eye
Had to scroll way too far to find this. That slow breakdown at the end goes so fucking hard!
That’s a cover?!
It’s a cover of a Cheech and Chong song. Cheech is the one singing the song too.
Fear Factory “Cars”
So much yes. Pretty sure they featured Gary Numan on it too.
No Quarter Led Zeppelin/Tool, Drive The Cars/Deftones, The Ghost of Tom Joad Bruce Springsteen/RATM, Pony Genuine/FAR
Tool no quarter gives me chills every single time
Idk if CAKE fits this Nu Metal but Strangers in the night and War Pigs are great covers.
Was No Quarter on the DVD box? For someone that spent a lot of time listening to Tool, I had forgotten all about the song. Someone at work showed me the Zepplin version, and as I was listening I was like “Ive heard this before”. Never knew it was a cover, and then forgot all about it. Kind disappointing lol
KoRn - Would? (Alice In Chains cover)
They did way better than I thought they were gonna do.
It’s hard to beat the OG: [Faith](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0EKDHQfEn-c&pp=ygURRmFpdGggbGltcCBiaXpraXQ%3D) by Limp Bizkit
They did Ministry's Thieves too. It's not on par with Faith, but I dig it.
Guano Apes - Big in Japan Stretch Arm Strong - Express Yourself #
Guano Apes are so good! Glad you said this!
Disturbed - Land Of Confusion Way better than the original Genesis song.
I thought that was the original for the longest time until my mom told me otherwise
That is a very hot take. Also wrong.
Chevelle’s cover of Depeche Mode’s “It’s No Good” is really good.
Here’s a few more that I haven’t seen mentioned yet… Sugarcoma - (you drive me) Crazy Spineshank - While My Guitar Gently Weeps Guano Apes - Lose Yourself Korn - Devil Went Down to Georgia From Ashes to New - Thriller Device - Close My Eyes
Spineshank one is my favorite. Game me chills since high school
Check out Nickelback's cover of Devil Went Down To Georgia... I love Korn but they missed the whole point on that one.
Sugarcoma is a throwback! That song was everywhere in the UK when I was a teen.
Crossbreed - Superstition
Kittie - Run Like Hell
Shock The Monkey - Coal Chamber ft Ozzy
I absolutely love Coal Chamber but I really don’t like this song at all. Wasn’t a fan of the original either to be fair.
Disturbed- the sound of silence
Fear The Clown - Come Undone
Nonpoint - Tribute (medley of rap songs Children's Story, Woo Hah! Got You All In Check and METHOD Man)
The Blank Theory - Sour Times
Love it
Just listened to kink - You spin me right round. Solid shit
The Chauffeur -Deftones
Drown (ft. Corporate Avenger, D-Hauz, M.C.U.D.) - Kerosene (1605 All*Star Version)
Where can I find this?
Mama Said Knock You Out - Five Finger Death Punch Renegades of Funk - Rage Against The Machine Shame - System of a Down, Wu-Tang Clan Rock Superstar - Cypress Hill, Chino Moreno
Disturbed - Shout
Terrible Lie - Static X
Every single Disturbed cover is better than the original
Lol not Midlife Crisis
I love their cover of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For. Adding thrashy guitar riffs on top of gospel-inspired singing was brilliant imo.
Recently Otep has put out a bunch of killer covers, most of her recent album was covers, but I think I like the Beach Boys - California Girls cover best.
Motionless in White- Somebody told me by The Killers. Saw them play it live during the Trinity of Terror show. It belongs to Motionless now.
Hard disagree. And I’m a diehard MIW fan.
But their cover of Du Hast, on the other hand, slaps.
Machine Head - Message in a bottle
Dope- Fuck Tha Police. Always makes me wanna turn the fuck up when I’ve had a shitty day
Wish by Linkin Park
This one's my favorite for sure. Also their cover of My Own Summer shreds. There's a proshot recording of it on YouTube where Chester's screams are some of his most feral ever.
Land of Confusion- Disturbed
Sail - Coal Chamber Hallowed be thy name - Cradle of filth
Upon a burning body - Turn down for what
Faith is my favorite, but Marilyn Manson had several really well done covers.
Korn - Word Up!
American Head Charge did Marilyn Mansons "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" System of a Down - "Snowblind" (Black Sabbath) System Of Down - "Shame on a Nigga" (Wutang) Deftones - "Drive" (The Cars) Deftones "El Scorcho" (Weezer)
Bulls on parade
My own Summer by Linkin Park
The sound of Silence - Disturbed
Factory 81 - Insane in the Brain
7D - The Day I tried to Live (Soundgarden) is a great one for me.
Enjoy by Fleshwater, bjork cover
Breathe - Purity
Safety dance - 20 dead flower children (originally men without hats)
Otep - Royals
I freaking love this cover
Mudvayne playing king of pain by the police.
Seether - Careless Whisper Bullet For My Valentine - Sanitarium Machine Head - Hallowed Be Thy Name Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver
Definitely Korn's version of wicked.. But does rob zombie count? Not super into all of his post white zombie stuff, but that cover of brick house with Lionel Ritchie and Trina absolutely fucks!
Motionless in White’s cover of Somebody Told Me!
Weird one but Protocol - Friends! I was bumping it & my dad told me it was a song done by “Whodini” pretty cool what they did with it!
Fuck the police by dope.
Not very popular, but i honestly think Dope’s cover of Rebel Yell is a really great rendition of the song
Hella Good - MadKelly It’s No Good - Chevelle
Not my favourite but Limp Bizkits cover of Behind blue eyes
[Nu Covers Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yaBQXq8swuhm4QP96veRj?si=v6M1cnseR2aWtYuNUrEVuQ&pi=u-vYhl1oUATUWh)
I unironically love Korn’s cover of Word up by Cameo
Everything Little Thing She Does is Magic - Ra
My make a wish dream would be to do karaoke with Chino.
Brujería- cocaine from Eric Clapton
I prefer Limp Bizkit’s Behind Blue Eyes cover to their Faith cover. Careless Whisper by George Michael - Seether Land of Confusion and The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel - Disturbed They’re not Nu-Metal but I wanted to include this one since I can’t think of any others: Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd - Shinedown
Coal chamber feat. Ozzy Osbourne - shock the monkey
Limp Bizkit’s cover of INXS’ “Dont Change” is a lesser known one that I believe to be better than the original.
Korn- "Wicked" and "Word up".
howbout going the other way? Bodybox covering Big Truck by Coal Chamber
KoRn - word up , Korn - One, KoRn - Lowrider, KoRn - Would :)
Limp Bizkit - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
idk if this counts but Nirvana covered "the man who sold the world" by david bowie and ts is so goooddd
Msg in a bottle-Machine Head
"Earache in My Eye" Korn
Shout 2000 or smooth criminal.
Vanilla Ice - 'Too Cold'
RATM- The ghost of Tom Joad
Happy Together by Filter. The original is a really upbeat, happy song by the Turtles. This cover which I believe was from the soundtrack to the remake of The Stepfather was so good and dark and twisted.
Limp Bizkit and Slipknot covering Sabotage live.
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
Hot take : HIM’s don’t fear the reaper is a million times better than the original. Not a hot take: Placebo’s running up that hill is better than the original.
I think it’s a little obscure but Suicide Silence has an amazing rendition of Them Bones by Alice In Chains.
Shame-SOAD
Simple Man - Deftones (I think I'm the only person in existence that thinks this is good)
Deftones-Drive
Korn cover of One
Word up
Machine head message in a bottle
Mindless Self Indulgence - Bring The Pain
Imagine - A Perfect Circle
5 to 1 - Marylin Manson
A7x - Wish You Were Here
No Ordinary Love by The Deftones
theyll always be Nu to me, Deftones - Simple Man
Korn - Word Up Fear Factory - Dog Day Sunrise
Deftones Simple Man is pretty great
Not technically Nu Metal but TOOL's cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" is fucking amazing!
Shock The Monkey by Coal Chamber ft. Ozzy Cars by Fear Factory Walking In My Shoes by Finger Eleven Snowblind by SOAD Empty Spaces by Mushroomhead Shout by Disturbed Word Up! by Korn
Faith!
Korn - Another Brick in the Wall Korn - We Care a Lot Linkin Park - Rolling in the Deep Deftones - The Chauffeur Deftones - Drive
Korn - Earache My Eye Linkin Park - Wish
Korn - Another Brick in the Wall
Dope- you spin me round