A few weeks ago there was a post asking for suggestions for female fronted heavy music and I was really grateful to OP for starting the conversation and everyone in the comments for coming up with really great suggestions.
I’m wondering if we could have a similar discussion to share more mellow covers of heavier songs. Usually when I’m working I prefer listening to less intense songs and a chill cover of a heavy song I like is somehow very interesting to me.
The song that got me wanting more of this niche was a cover of Toxicity which I’ve had on repeat this week. I can also think of this cover of Seven Nation Army which is kind of similar as an example but I don’t really know a lot more like this.
Does anyone have any similar recommendations they enjoy?
Edit: All great suggestions so far, still working my way through them! I remembered another song which is this cover of Firestarter by The Prodigy
May not match exactly as the originals aren’t heavy, but Seu Jorge did acoustic covers of David Bowie songs in Portuguese for the movie The Life Aquatic. The movie soundtrack has only a handful, but he released a full album of the covers called The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVeD-xwJh-k