Top 10 Cover Songs Of the 2000s

The Top Ten
1 Hallowed Be Thy Name - Machine Head

Iron Maiden cover.
The original song isn't easy to cover. Many attempted this iconic song but most of them failed. Machine Head succeeded the most.

2 Immigrant Song - Demons & Wizards

Led Zeppelin cover. 2005
The best cover of this song I know.

3 Don't Bring Me Down - Northern Kings

ELO cover. 2007 (ELO - Electric Light Orchestra)
I knew and liked the original when I heard this cover. And liked the cover, too.

4 Hurt - Johnny Cash

This is the obvious #1 choice. So much better than all the metal covers above it.

Nine Inch Nails cover, 2002

5 Dream a Little Dream of Me - Blind Guardian

2007.
The original song is of 1931! It was first recorded by Ozzie Nelson. While Blind Guardian are a metal band, the original song obviously isn't metal. A very surprising choice for a cover. Who knew Hansi can sing like that? His unmatched vocal and tonal versatility is so evident here (if you compare his vocals here with his original songs).

6 Black Metal - Vader

Excellent Venom cover

7 Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim, Mya, Pink
8 Lay All Your Love on Me - Avantasia
9 Holy Diver - Killswitch Engage
10 Somebody Put Something In My Drink - Children of Bodom

The Ramones in the house. Kind of.

The Contenders
11 Oops I Did It Again - Children of Bodom

2005. Britney Spears cover.

12 In the Air Tonight - Nonpoint

Phil Collins cover, 2004

13 Highway Star - Faith No More

@Userguy44 - As far as I know it was only live but they did it many times at live shows. Once they even played it 4 times during one concert (circa 1997).
But this cover wasn't added by me because their versions didn't impress me much.

They covered Deep Purple? Cool! I need to hear that.

14 Maniac - Firewind

Flashdance OST cover

15 Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
16 It's My Life - No Doubt
17 Dancing with Tears in My Eyes - Avantasia
18 The Sound of Silence - Disturbed
19 Simple Man - Shinedown
20 Slaughtered - Havok
21 Eagle - Rob Rock

Abba Cover, One of the best covers I ever heard.

22 Fight Fire with Fire - Vader
23 S.O.S. - At Vance
24 Waterloo - Nation
25 In a Gadda Da Vida - Blind Guardian

2006.
Iron Butterfly cover (they significantly changed the original and I like it)

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