Metal Cover

Metal covers are a transformative music genre where artists reinterpret songs from a wide array of genres, infusing them with the distinguishing characteristics of metal music. This includes heavy guitar riffs, powerful drumming, and often a more aggressive vocal style. Artists like PelleK and Leo bring a theatrical intensity to their vocals, evoking the epic scope commonly associated with metal. Bands like UMC and individuals like Jonathan Young excel at adapting and often elevating the source material, employing metal's sonic intensity to add a new dimension of passion and energy to the original compositions. These covers often blend the familiar with the new, offering fans of the original songs a fresh and exhilarating auditory experience that pays homage while asserting its own artistic merit through the lens of metal's visceral sound.

I'm Killing Squids (Inspired by Helldivers 2)

Jonathan Young

Single - Released October 9, 2025