Here are the 55 best metal covers of classic rock hits. Playing covers, or even just riffs from your favorite songs is how so many musicians and bands start off. And even as careers progress and ...

Written by Bobby Borchers, Mack Vickery, and Wayne Kemp, Paycheck first released this song on his 1971 compilation album ...

Mat of Artificial Fear performed an impressive heavy metal cover of the stark piano intro theme for Severance, using the ...

The outrageous and outspoken Gene Simmons formed KISS in New York, 1973. The hard rock band went on to sell over 100 million records worldwide and become highly influential, making The Demon of ...

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Plagiarism is an unfortunately common occurrence in musical art. There’s actually an entire blog, Sad But True, dedicated to how often heavy metal cover and merch artists plagiarize the works of ...

Meissner was smart to pick the "Master of Puppets" cover. The song is considered one of the band's greatest songs of all time ...

Midnight pay homage to the punk and metal of their hometown on the ripper "Cleveland Metal." It's our Heavy Song of the Week.

Imagine, as a lark, putting together a heavy metal band with the goal of “destroying ... as one of your early cover projects; imagine the resultant track becoming a hit in its own right.