Continuing on yesterday's subject of not so pop artists covering pop artists, lets talk about one of the biggest pop acts ever : ABBA!

Back in 2001 Nuclear Blast released a tribute to ABBA. The result in some cases is stunning. Therion put their classical goth metal stamp on Summernight City and turn it into something amazing. Also worthy of a mention is Nation doing the all-time classic Waterloo. They give it a bit more of a bluesy rock feel and once again it works out. A song I personally really like is Paradox' speed metal version of SOS, but I'm sure the original composers will be less than happy with that one :) In some cases the vocals are the real problem. Thank You For The Music is professionally destroyed by the singer of Metalium, for example.

Another probably not so approved cover version is Nevermore's version of the Simon & Garfunkel classic Sound of Silence. It's pretty much only the lyrics that are the same and even the order of those has been meddled with. The end result is a display of raw aggression which perfectly fits the rest of their Dead Heart In a Dead World album. When I saw them several years ago in Hardenberg, singer Warrel Dane announced when introducing the song "I'm sure mr.Simon does not approve of our version".