Best Cover Versions of Deep Purple Songs

I prefer covers by metal bands because they are the best. Also modern metal goes with Deep Purple songs.
But non-metal covers are OK, too, if they are good.

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The Top Ten
1 Perfect Strangers - Jorn Lande

It's not only the best Deep Purple cover, it's one of the best covers of all time.

2 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple, Queen, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Yes, Rush

Watch the video on youtube - Kerrang called it "the greatest array of hard rock talent ever assembled".
In 1989, artists from Pink Floyd, Queen, Rush, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Yes, Iron Maiden and others joined forces to raise funds for people affected by the Armenian earthquake.
Guitars - David Gilmour, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Alex Lifeson
Vox - Ian Gillan, Bruce Dickinson, Paul Rogers, Bryan Adams
Keyboards - Keith Emerson, Geoff Downes
Bass - Chris Squire
Drums - Roger Taylor

3 Speed King - Venom

The best cover of this song by far. Awesome!

4 Perfect Strangers - Dream Theater
5 Highway Star - Chickenfoot

A great cover, moreover it's a live version.

6 Mistreated - Rainbow

Vox by Dio - Dio did a great job on this one. There's only a live version but it's great (from the live album On Stage, 1977).

Just a great song

7 Smoke on the Water - Metalium
8 Burn - Jorn Lande

Jorn Lande is amazing again.

9 Space Truckin' - Overkill

One of the best Deep Purple covers on this list.

10 Highway Star - Metal Church

Thanks to whoever added this - I completely forgot about this version.

The Contenders
11 Perfect Strangers - Bruce Dickinson
12 Highway Star - Stryper
13 When a Blind Man Cries - Metallica
14 Speedking - Primal Fear

This speed metal band did a great job on Speedking. The singer screams not worse than Ian Gillan and their sick drummer put some extras.

15 Stormbringer - Jorn Lande
16 Black Night - Monument

Monument is a new metal band from The UK, formed circa 2010.

I love Black Night and I'm glad Monument did this awesome cover.

17 Hallelujah - Blind Guardian
18 Highway Star - Buckcherry

In general this cover is very good, despite they skipped the keyboard solo and the legendary screams

19 Mistreated - Yngwie Malmsteen

Vox: Jeff Scott Soto

20 Highway Star - Shining Fury
21 Highway Star - Steve Vai, Glenn Hughes, Chad Smith & Lachlan Doley

From the 2012 tribute album "Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head"

22 Black Night - Deicide

This is a very extreme cover as you can guess.

23 Black Night - Bad Manners

This is a ska version, it sounds so funny.

24 Space Truckin' - Iron Maiden
25 Soldier of Fortune - Opeth
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