EK13May 15, 2025

Looking for mellow covers of heavier music

https://lemmy.world/post/29706017

Looking for mellow covers of heavier music - Lemmy.World

A few weeks ago there was a post asking for suggestions for female fronted heavy music [https://lemmy.world/post/28825432] 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb53_ni1BqI] which I’ve had on repeat this week. I can also think of this cover of Seven Nation Army [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5itnXtgd4PA] 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?

Show threadSterile_Technique

Not really covers, but if you’re looking for a chill approach to metal/rock, you might like Pelican or Russian Circles. Both are kind of ambient rock/metal, but no lyrics, and the instrumentals are on the relaxed end of the spectrum… like you know how a normal metal song often has a more mellow intro, then all at once the tempo takes off, the volume skyrockets, and a howler monkey starts calling for a mate? …they’re like entire songs that have that intro energy.

Fantastic background music.

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May 15, 2025 at 9:35pmWeb
Show threadEK13May 15, 2025
This was a bit of a happy accident, not really what I was looking for but still ended up being very cool! I hopped around a bit between both artists’ top songs and I think this could be great music to work to also when the howler monkeys would otherwise be a distraction!