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A similar parallel are the songs Metallica "The Four Horsemen" and Megadeth "Mechanix". Mustine was credited as the songwriter on both versions. Metallica - The Four Horsemen Megadeth - Mechanix The first officially recorded version was "The Mechanics" on the Metallica 1982 demo...

A symphonic heavy metal band from China, doing a cover of a theme song from an early 1990s wuxia movie "The Swordsman". The band's english name is something like "Mysterain", while the song title is something like "A Laughter In The Vast Sea" (approximately translated to english)...

This brings back memories of the early 1990s when this song was played repeatedly on music channels/shows. Another Soul Asylum song from that time period, which wasn't overplayed as much is "Somebody to Shove".

Oddly enough, the banjo playing the arpeggio lines actually fits right in and works well.

A bluegrass style cover of blue oyster cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper".

(Dunno how I managed to miss these). Dolly doing a cover of Magic Man with Ann Wilson. Dolly doing a cover of Stairway to Heaven.

A subversive parody of "Swan Lake" by Pussy Riot. (English subtitles are insightful).

Back in the day, I could have never imagined Dolly singing heavier rock type stuff.

An acoustic cover of "A Dangerous Meeting" (originally by Mercyful Fate).

Here is a drastic case of a piece that is played in different keys, at approximately the same tempo. A very early classic song in the speed metal genre: Witching Hour. The original from 1981 by Venom sounds like the guitars were tuned to Csharp standard. The beginning of the song sounds...

As a different drastic example, there are stark differences in how Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is played: as an orchestra and as a solo pipe organ. My preference is generally the orchestral versions, than the pipe organ recitals.

Rigor Mortis were around back in the mid-late 1980s. I thought they were rather average to below average speed/thrash metal type stuff. At the time, it was a headscratcher as to how they managed to get a major record label deal at Capitol / EMI Records. The suspicion was that Rigor Mortis...

(More generally). In some niches such as heavy metal or punk rock, these were acts where live performance is everything. Studio recordings is almost always inferior in many cases. Even multitrack live recordings have a hard time capturing the peformance.

Very different sounding covers than the original. - cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies" by Fractal - cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze" by Coroner

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It sounds like a pop rock song, by "Surface Tension" with a different singer. - Marichka I don't know reliable the english subtitles are, translated from ukrainian. By american/western standards, the lyrics might be considered very subversive.

This song is very strange by western standards. On the surface it sounds like a generic pop rock song. Though examining a chinese ->english translation of the lyrics, it sounds subversive. - live version of "Without Dreams, You Aren't Sad" with english subtitles - original version by...

A cover of The Clash's "London Calling" with different lyrics. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ukrainian-punk-band-the-clash-london-calling-kyiv-calling-1324256/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/19/kyiv-calling-famous-clash-anthem-reborn-as-call-to-arms-beton Beton -...

Pink Floyd (with Andriy Khlyvnyuk) - Hey Hey Rise Up Basically Pink Floyd (without Roger Waters) playing a cover of a 400 year old Ukrainian war song. Here's some context about its history.

This is a censored version, with english subtitles. The band/act's name is "surface tension". Running the song's name through google translate, it detects the language is ukrainian -> english translation "we will kill you all".

"Lost In America" is one of the few Cooper songs which I liked the live album version a lot more than the original studio verison (from the 1994 "The Last Temptation" album).

more Cooper - Lost in America - Billion Dollar Babies

Journey's current singer Arnel Pineda (since 2008) sounds almost identical to Perry. Separate Ways (2008 version)

By the same Serbian metal band (The Big Deal), a cover of Europe's "Rock The Night". (Europe were popular in america in the mid-late 1980s).

Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) (Abba cover by a Serbian metal band).

This song has two classical cover segments: "Metal Heart" by Accept. The intro is a cover of Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March", and the guitar solo has segments of Beethoven's "Fur Elise". Metal Heart Slavonic March Fuer Elise

Wow. I never knew elp, yes, etc ... were doing classical pieces. Good stuff.

Piano or acoustic versions of Leaves' Eyes songs. Dark Love Empress Across the Sea Jomsborg Without any heavy distorted electric guitars, it sounds like folk music. Maybe slightly "celtic" sounding?

Yeah the original is UFO back in the mid-late 1970s. When I first heard Lights Out, I didn't know what it was initially. I incorrectly thought it was a Michael Schenker Group (MSG) song. At the time, I was listening to MSG where I noticed "Lights Out" sounded like a similar style as Michael...

Lights Out (cover)