I am working on the Top 50 of 2025, and I realized that there were quite a few covers released last year. I don’t include cover songs on that list, so I thought I’d share them here.

• Amerakin Overdose: “Genie in a Bottle” (Christina Aguilera cover)
• Næŕok, Steeno: “3” (Britney Spears cover)
• Boze: “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (Charlie Daniels cover)
• Gillsaw: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
• Priest: “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak cover)
• Waiting at the Bridge: “Love Gun” (KISS cover)
• Kings County: “The Beautiful People” (Marilyn Manson cover)
• Damned Anthem, Lola Rhodes: “Heart-Shaped Box” (Nirvana cover)
• Silent Theory, Crispin Earl: “Pardon Me” (Incubus cover)
• Lift the Curse: “Love is a Battlefield” (Pat Benatar cover)
• RedPrint: “Stranglehold” (Ted Nugent cover)
• Rise to Ruin: “Paranoid” (Black Sabbath cover)
• Cirkus: “Crazy Train” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
• P.O.D.: “Don’t Let Me Down” (The Beatles cover)
• Blackjacket: “Grenade” (Bruno Mars cover)
• Nick Nasty: “Seven Nation Army” (The White Stripes cover)
• Feverlust: “That’s So True” (Gracie Abrams cover)
• We’re Wolves: “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy Osbourne cover)
• 9th Evolution: “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMahon cover)
• Kissing Candice: “Bodies” (Drowning Pool cover)
• Kings of Karma: “Run Rudolph Run” (Chuck Berry cover)
• Lift the Curse: “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (Harry Reser and His Orchestra cover)
• Shallow Side: “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)” (Elton John cover)
• Amerakin Overdose: “Feliz Navidad” (José Feliciano cover)
• ENMY: “Incomplete” (Backstreet Boys cover)
• KillDevil Theory: “Tom Sawyer” (Rush cover)
• Kalamity Kills: “Help!” (The Beatles cover)
• Nail Bite: “Nutshell” (Alice in Chains cover)

Also – Crispin Earl of The Veer Union released Covers Collection, Vol. 2 on December 5th, which includes his renditions of “The Kill” by Thirty Seconds to Mars, “Even in Arcadia” by Sleep Token, and more!