For this week's Loud List, we compiled clips of metal bands covering pop songs. You don't typically think you'll hear pop songs when you're going to a metal show, but music is music, and a lot of ...

Every catchy pop track hides possibilities. And once a metal band picks it up, the song shifts character—sometimes darker, sometimes heavier—always in an unexpected way. That’s the joy of reinvention ...

Christian rock group Skillet’s debut Christmas single, a cover of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” hit No. 1 on five different ...

Whether you discovered music through vinyl sleeves, CD booklets, or MTV countdowns, some album covers became just as iconic ...

Cover songs, at some point, became part of nu-metal culture. To be more specific, these were mostly covers of pop songs. Sure, some did it before Limp Bizkit unleashed their take on George Michael's ...

David Bowie and Mick Jagger turned an unlikely cover into a No. 1 hit that still stands as one of the decade’s most iconic ...

Many people prefer certain song covers to the original, which is perfectly fine. On the other hand, there are songs that people are clueless about, even if they are song covers in the first place!

This is probably one of the most well-known instances of a pop cover being better (or at least more popular) than the original song. Sinead O’Connor’s rendition of “Nothing Compares 2 U” not only ...