Top 10 Best Rock and Metal Albums that Consist Mostly of Cover Songs
These are Cover albums which most if not all the songs are covers. Bands usually do this to pay tribute to the artists that influenced them and to show that they could play their songs as well and sometimes improve them or make them better than the original. and this could be for any album that mostly consists of covers Tribute albums by one artist or by many artists
Two CDs of covers and all of them are great some are better than others but none of themm are bad:
Best Covers: Stone Cold Crazy, Am I Evil? Whiskey in the Jar, Mercyful Fate Medley, Overkill, So What, Turn the Page, Breadfan
A album that consists of covers of Dio songs a lot of them are really great.
A Collection of Motorhead's Best Covers. (Note there is also a Ozzy cover album of the same name)
Best Covers: Hellraiser, Whiplash, Breaking the Law, God Save the Queen
4/5 songs on this album are live covers/ medleys of songs plus one original song the title track
Best Covers, The Big Medley, Led Zeppelin Medley, Perfect Strangers
A great fusion of Thrash Metal and Hardcore Punk music all but one song on this album are covers and the one original song is great.
Best Covers: Guilty of Being White, can't Stand You, Disintegration / Free Money, Drunk Drivers Against Mad Mothers
Covers album of the band's various influences. The best one on it, in my opinion, is the Territory cover.
Best Covers: Overkill, Tyrant, Space Truckin'
Best Covers: Hallowed Be Thy Name, Black Sabbath, It's a Long Way to the Top, Highway to Hell, The Number of the Beast
An album with covers only (2002). Very good.
Best Covers: Electric Funeral, Hand of Doom
Best Covers: Remember Tomorrow, Wasted Years, The Trooper, To Tame A Land, Iron Maiden and of course Hallowed Be Thy Name
Best Covers: Shoot 'em Down, Destroyer, Under the Blade, We're Not Gonna Take It
Best Covers: The Hellion/Electric Eye, The Ripper, Victim of Changes, Rapid Fire, You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Best Covers: The Ripper, Beyond the Realms of Death, Exciter, Grinder, Tyrant
Best Covers: Breaking the Law, Metal Gods, Exciter, Screaming for Vengeance
Best Covers: Seek & Destroy, Whiplash, Phantom Lord
Best Covers: Whiplash, Trapped Under Ice, Creeping Death