Top 10 Classical Style Cover Versions of Metal Songs

Give a listen to these covers if you still dosn't believe metal music is a modified version of classical music, adapted for modern times electric rock guitars.

The songs on this list sound like original classical pieces and the metal songs we know sound like their modern cover versions.
The Top Ten
1 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Vitamin String Quartet

Iron Maiden cover.
Vitamin String Quartet covered many metal songs so find them on youtube if interested.

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Top 10 Iconic Metal Songs with Clear Classical Influences (Except Symphonic and Neo-Classical Metal)
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2 Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - Apocalyptica

This sounds like a classical piece Metallica covered. Metallica songs sound very good on cello.

3 Symphony of Destruction - Primitivity
4 The Trooper - Scott Lavender

It's a piano cover of Iron Maiden.
Scott Lavender is a music conductor and pianist who has worked with the National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, and many more.
He released a whole album in 2005 (The Piano Tribute to Iron Maiden) with the best Iron Maiden songs.

5 The Trooper - Vitamin String Quartet

Iron Maiden cover. I love it.

6 Theatre of Pain (Orchestral Version) - Blind Guardian

In 1996 Blind Guardian covered one of their own songs for the album Forgotten Tales, a song originally released in 1992, on the album Somewhere Far Beyond.
This orchestral version is a great symphonic instrumental. Wow, what did Blind Guardian write in 1992? A classical piece undercover.

7 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Scott Lavender

Iron Maiden piano cover.

8 The Unforgiven - Gregorian

Metallica - Gregorian chant style.

9 Master of Puppets - Primitivity

One more Metallica cover

10 Fear of the Dark - Camille and Kennerly

These cute twins played Iron Maiden on harp twins.

The Contenders
11 Nothing Else Matters - Gregorian

Metallica cover. I love it.

12 Master of Puppets - Apocalyptica

Metallica's abrasive riffs sound great on Apocalyptica's abrasive cellos.

13 Aces High - Scott Lavender

Iron Maiden piano cover.

14 The Bard's Song - Camille and Kennerly

Blind Guardian cover on harp twins.

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