I found this video about a year or so ago and have since watched most of Leo Moracchioli’s covers. Often it’s pretty easy to imagine what a metal cover of a pop song is going to sound like ahead of time, but some of his videos are amazing. There’s a few acoustic covers of metal songs among the metal covers of pop songs as well.
I like listening to these to see if retrofitting the song to sound metal a big change or, if it turns out that the song was pretty metal in the first place.
Now we need to convince Puddles Pity Party to do Africa.