An Entirely Arbitrary List of Favorite Cover Songs

Click song names for Youtube link, and artist names in parentheses for originals (when availible). Single asterisks denote songs added, double asterisks denote links updated.
Last updated on 2013/01/30 with a count of 254 songs.

13 - "Triumph of Death" (Hellhammer)
The 13th Floor Elevators - "Baby Blue" (Bob Dylan)
The Accused - "Sick Boy" (G.B.H.)
Acid King - "Motörhead" (Hawkwind)
Aerobitch - "High Voltage" (AC/DC)
Tori Amos - "Raining Blood" (Slayer)
Anal Cunt - "American Woman" (The Guess Who)
The Angelic Upstarts - "The Young Ones" (Cliff Richard and the Shadows)
The Angelic Upstarts - "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" (The Animals)
Angkor Wat - "Barracuda" (Heart)
Anthrax - "Antisocial" (Trust)
Anthrax - "Got the Time" (Joe Jackson)
Armageddon - "Better by You, Better Than Me" (Spooky Tooth)
Arthur Brown - "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" (Fleetwood Mac)
Aura Noir - "Heaven's on Fire" (Venom)
Bardo Pond - "Lord of Light" (Hawkwind)
Bauhaus - "Rosegarden Funeral of Sores" (John Cale)
Bauhaus - "Third Uncle" (Brian Eno)
Bauhaus - "Ziggy Stardust" (David Bowie)
The Birthday Party - "Loose" (The Stooges)
Black Sabbath - "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)
Black Sabbath - "Evil Woman" (Crow)
Black Sabbath - "The Rebel" (Norman Haines Band)
Black Sabbath - "Warning" (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation)
Black Sabbath - "When I Came Down" (Norman Haines Band)
Blind Guardian - "Beyond the Realms of Death" (Judas Priest)
Blue Cheer - "Parchment Farm" (Mose Allison)
Blue Cheer - "Satisfaction" (Rolling Stones)
Blue Cheer - "Summertime Blues" (Eddie Cochran)
Blue Öyster Cult - "This Ain't the Summer of Love" (Imperial Dogs)
Bong - "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (Pink Floyd)
The Brave New World - "Train Kept a Rollin'" (Tiny Bradshaw)
Broadsword - "Woman Tamer" (Sir Lord Baltimore)
The Peter Brötzmann Quartet - "Einheitsfrontlied" (Hanns Eisler & Bertolt Brecht)
C Average - "Interstellar Overdrive"/"Ming's Theme" (Pink Floyd/Queen)
Cactus - "Evil" (Howlin' Wolf)
Cactus - "Parchman Farm" (Mose Allison)
Cancer - "Dethroned Emperor" (Celtic Frost)
Carnivore - "Manic Depression" (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
Christian Mistress - "Possession" (Faith)
Church of Misery - "Master Heartache" (Sir Lord Baltimore)
Church of Misery - "Race with the Devil" (Gun)
Church of Misery - "War is our Destiny" (Saint Vitus)
Cock Sparrer - "White Riot" (The Clash)
Coil - "Going Up" (Theme to Are You Being Served?) (David Croft & Ronnie Hazlehurst)
Coil - "Tainted Love" (Gloria Jones)
Concrete Sox - "Moustache" (a “cover” of Metallica's "Whiplash")
Coroner - "I Want You" (Beatles)
The Cramps - "Strychnine" (Sonics)
The Cramps - "Sunglasses After Dark" (Dwight Pullen)
The Cramps - "Tear it Up" (Johnny Burnette Trio)
The Cramps - "The Way I Walk" (Jack Scott)
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "I Put a Spell on You" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
Cream - "Crossroads" (Robert Johnson)
Creation - "Tobacco Road" (John D. Loudermilk)
Current 93 - "Diana" (Comus)
The Damned - Ballroom Blitz (The Sweet)
Dark Castle - "No Quarter" (Led Zeppelin)
Dark Funeral - "Equimanthorn" (Bathory)
The Dead Boys - "Ain't it Fun?" (Rocket from the Tombs)
The Dead Boys - "Down in Flames" (Rocket from the Tombs)
The Dead Boys - "Sonic Reducer" (Rocket from the Tombs)
Dead Kennedys - "Take This Job and Shove It" (Johnny Paycheck)
Dead Kennedys - "Viva Las Vegas" (Elvis Presley)
Death - "Painkiller" (Judas Priest)
Death S.S. "I Love the Dead" (Alice Cooper)
Death S.S. - "In Ancient Days" (Black Widow)
Bruce Dickinson - "Sin City" (AC/DC)
Bruce Dickinson - "Spirit of Joy" (Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come)
The Dogs - "Are you a Boy or a Girl" (The Barbarians)
The Dwarves - "I'm a Living Sickness" (The Calico Wall)
Electric Wizard - "Black Magic Rituals & Perversions: I. Frisson des vampires" (Acanthus)
Entombed - "Night of the Vampire" (Roky Erickson and the Aliens)
Entombed - "Under the Sun" (Black Sabbath)
Roky Erickson "Heroin" (Velvet Underground)
Espers - "Flaming Telepaths" (Blue Öyster Cult)
Evil Army - "The Reaper" (Bathory)
Extinction of Mankind - "Ain't No Feeble Bastard" (Discharge)
Extinction of Mankind - "Out from the Void, Part II" (Antisect)
Fantômas - "Der Golem" (Karl-Ernst Sasse)
Fantômas - "The Devil Rides Out" (James Bernard)
Fear - 'We Gotta Get Out of this Place" (The Animals)
The Feederz - "Have You Never Been Mellow?" (Olivia Newton John)
Flower Travellin' Band - "21st Century Schizoid Man" (King Crimson)
Flower Travellin' Band - "Black Sabbath" (Black Sabbath)
Forbidden - "21st Century Schizoid Man" (King Crimson)
Fudge Tunnel - "Sunshine of Your Love" (Cream)
Diamanda Galas - "I Put a Spell on you" (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
Ghost (Japan) - "Caledonia" (Cromagnon)
Ghost (Japan) - "Dominoes / Celebration for the Gray Days" (Syd Barrett)
Girlschool - "Race with the Devil" (Gun)
Goatsnake - "Hot Rod" (Black Oak Arkansas)
Goatsnake - "Who Are You?" (Black Sabbath)
Godflesh - "For Those About to Rock" (AC/DC)
Godflesh - "Straight to Your Heart" (Loop)
The Golden Cups - "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
Grails - "All the Colors of the Dark" (Cover of Bruno Nicolai's "Sabba")
Grails - "Satori" (Flower Travellin' Band)
Guitar Wolf - "Summertime Blues" (Eddie Cochran)
HALO - "Black Sabbath" (Black Sabbath)
Hands of Orlac - "Demoniac City" (Black Hole)
Hands of Orlac - "Sorceress" (Angel Witch)
Harvey Milk - "One of Us Cannot be Wrong" (Leonard Cohen)
Headcheese - "Crazy Horses" (The Osmonds)
Head of David - "Rocket USA" (Suicide)
Heathen - "Kill the King" (Rainbow)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - "Crosstown Traffic" (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - "Cruel Way to Go Down" (Allen Toussaint)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - "Going, Going, Gone" (Bob Dylan)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - "I Can Only Give You Everything" (Them)
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (The Stooges)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience- "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
Horse - "Step Out of Line" (Saturnalia)
Ipsissimus - "Hold On" (Sharon Tandy & Les Fleur de Lys)
Iron Maiden - "Cross Eyed Mary" (Jethro Tull)
Iron Maiden - "I've Got the Fire" (Montrose)
Iron Maiden - "Massacre" (Thin Lizzy)
Iron Maiden - "Women in Uniform" (Skyhooks)
Jess and the Ancient Ones - "White Witch of Rose Hall" (Coven)
Jex Thoth - "Mr. Rainbow" (Slapp Happy)
Judas Priest - "Better by You, Better Than Me" (Spooky Tooth)
Judas Priest - "Diamonds and Rust" (Joan Baez)
Judas Priest - "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" (Fleetwood Mac)
Kreator - "Witching Hour" (Venom)
Kylesa - "Interstellar Overdrive" (Pink Floyd)
Kylesa - "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (Pink Floyd)
Lawnmower Deth - "Crazy Horses" (The Osmonds)
Lawnmower Deth - "Kids in America" (Kim Wilde)
Led Zepplin - "Dazed and Confused" (Jake Holmes)
Liege Lord - "Kill the King" (Rainbow)
Loop - "Like Rats" (Godflesh)
Loop - "Mother Sky" (Can)
Loop - "Rocket U.S.A." (Suicide)
Loop - "Thief of Fire" (The Pop Group)
Love - "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
Machetazo - "Pay to Die" (Death Strike)
McPhee - "The Wrong Time" (Spooky Tooth)
Melt Banana - "Surfin' U.S.A." (The Beach Boys)
Melt Banana - "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)
Melvins - "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" (Alice Cooper)
Melvins - "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" (Fleetwood Mac)
Melvins - "Interstellar Overdrive" (Pink Floyd)
Melvins - "Nile Song" (Pink Floyd)
* Melvins - "Venus in Furs" (Velvet Underground)
Merzbow - "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber)
Metallica - "Am I Evil?" (Diamond Head)
Metallica - "Blitzkrieg" (Blitzkrieg)
Metallica - "Breadfan" (Budgie)
Metallica - "Helpless" (Diamond Head)
Metallica - "The Small Hours" (Holocaust)
Midnight - "Eyes of Satan" (Pagans)
Milligram - "Rumblin' Man" (Cactus)
Minsk - "Assault and Battery & the Golden Void" (Hawkwind)
Monster Magnet - "Sin's a Good Man's Brother" (Grand Funk Railroad)
Motörhead "I'm Your Witch Doctor" (John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers)
Motörhead - "Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers" (ZZ Top)
Motörhead - "City Kids" (Pink Fairies)
Motörhead - "Motörhead" (Hawkwind)
Motörhead - "Train Kept A-Rollin" (Tiny Bradshaw)
Mr. Bungle - "Drug Me" (Dead Kennedys)
Mr. Bungle - "The Stroke" (Billy Squire)
Naked City - "Chinatown" (Jerry Goldsmith)
Naked City - "Contempt" (Georges Delerue)
Naked City - "Lonely Woman" (Ornette Coleman)
Nazareth - "Ballad of Hollis Brown" (Bob Dylan)
Nekromantheon - "Pay to Die" (Death Strike)
Neurosis - "Children of the Grave" (Black Sabbath)
Neurosis - "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing" (Discharge)
* Neurosis - "Saturday Night Holocaust" (Dead Kennedys)
Nico - "The End" (The Doors)
Nightstick - "Set The Controls For The Heart of the Sun" (Pink Floyd)
Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie)
Nirvana - "The Money will Roll Right In" (Fang)
* NoMeansNo - "Forward to Death" ( Dead Kennedys)
Obituary - "Circle of the Tyrants" (Celtic Frost)
Onslaught - "Confused" (Angel Witch)
Orange Goblin - "'Hand of Doom" (Black Sabbath)
Orange Goblin - "Freelance Fiend" (Leaf Hound)
The Outer Mongolian Herd - "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
Overkill - "Sonic Reducer" (Rocket from the Tombs)
Pantera - "Hole in the Sky" (Black Sabbath)
Pantera - "Planet Caravan" (Black Sabbath)
Paradise Lost - "Death Walks Behind You" (Atomic Rooster)
Pere Ubu - "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" (Rocket from the Tombs)
* Persistance in Mourning - "Alone and Forsaken" (a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHgeYSi9yY">Hank Williams, Sr.)
The Pixies - "In Heaven" (Peter Ivers)
The Pogues - "Dirty Old Town" (Ewan McColl)
Pure Hell - "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" (Nancy Sinatra)
Radio Birdman - "TV Eye" (Stooges)
Ram - "Evil" (Mercyful Fate)
Realm - "Eleanor Rigby" (Beatles)
Red Fang - "Suicide" (Dust)
Reverend Bizarre - "Deceiver" (Judas Priest)
Reverend Bizarre - "Dunkelheit" (Burzum)
Revolting Cocks - "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" (Rod Stewart)
Rocket from the Tombs - "Search and Destroy" (The Stooges)
Rock Goddess - "Nights in White Satin" (Moody Blues)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - "Orion" (Metallica)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin)
Rollins Band - "Do It" (Pink Fairies)
Rondellus - Sabbatum (full album of Black Sabbath covers)
Sadus - "Invaders" (Iron Maiden)
Saint Vitus - "Thirsty and Miserable" (Black Flag)
SaturninE - "Call from the Grave" (Bathory)
Jirí Schelinger - "Metro dobrý den" (cover of Black Sabbath's "A National Acrobat")
Sepultura - "Orgasmatron" (Motörhead)
Sepultura - "Symptom of the Universe" (Black Sabbath)
The Sex Pistols - "Roadrunner" (Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Helter Skelter" (Beatles)
Slaughter (Canada) - "Massacra" (Hellhammer)
Slayer - "Dissident Aggressor" (Judas Priest)
Slayer - "Richard Hung Himself" (D.I.)
Sleep - "Snowblind" (Black Sabbath)
Sodom - "1000 Days In Sodom" (Venom)
Sodom - Iron Fist (Motörhead)
The Sonics - "Have Love, Will Travel" (Richard Berry & the Pharoahs)
The Sonics - "Keep a Knockin'" (Little Richard)
The Sonics - "Louie Louie" (The Kingsmen)
Spooky Tooth - "I Am the Walrus" (The Beatles)
Stack Waddy - "Willy the Pimp" (Frank Zappa)
Stiff Little Fingers - "Johnny Was" (Bob Marley)
Sun City Girls - "CIA Man" (The Fugs)
The Swamp Rats - "Psycho" (The Sonics)
June Tabor - "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (Eric Bogle)
Taint - "One Thousand Days in Sodom" (Venom)
Tank - "Crazy Horses" (The Osmonds)
Tea Company - "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (The Supremes)
Tear Gas - "Love Story" (Jethro Tull)
Teddy and his Patches - "Suzy Creamcheese" (The Mothers of Invention)
Thou - "4th of July" (Soundgarden)
Thralldom - "Christbait Rising" (Godflesh)
Throne of Ahaz - "Black Sabbath" (Black Sabbath)
Trench Hell - "The Third of the Storms" (Hellhammer)
Trouble - "Tales of Brave" Ulysses" (Cream)
Type O Negative - "Black Sabbath" (Black Sabbath)
U.S. Christmas - "Master of the Universe" (Hawkwind)
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - "Wicked Annabella" (The Kinks)
Unearthly Trance "Long Gone" (Syd Barrett)
Unearthly Trance "Servants of the Warsmen" (Winter)
Uzala - "Gloomy Sunday" (Rezso Seress)
Van Der Graaf Generator - "Theme One" (George Martin, theme for BBC Radio 1)
Vanilla Fudge - "You Keep Me Hangin' On" (The Supremes)
Voivod - "21st Century Schizoid Man" (King Crimson)
Voivod - "Astronomy Domine" (Pink Floyd)
Voivod - "Nile Song" (Pink Floyd)
Volition - "Eternal Frost" (Winter)
Weasel Walter - "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen)
Weedeater - "Gimme Back My Bullets" (Lynyrd Skyrnyrd)
Chelsea Wolfe - "Black Spell of Destruction" (Burzum)
Chelsea Wolfe - "Echo" (Rudimentary Peni)
Writing on the Wall - "Aries" (The Zodiac)
John Zorn - Spy vs. Spy (full album of Ornette Coleman covers)
John Zorn - The Big Gundown (full album of Ennio Morricone covers)