13 incredible rock and heavy metal covers of ABBA songs
Featuring Ghost's take on 'I'm A Marionette'
Last updated 28th Sep 2021
Beneath their unashamedly joyous, seemingly squeaky-clean pop façade, songs by Swedish music legends ABBA often have an extremely dark underbelly dealing with themes like relationship breakdowns, paranoia and loss of youth. ‘I'm A Marionette’, for example, is a bleak depiction of a beleaguered singer being used by the music industry and the audience for their own selfish means.
It’s no surprise then that ABBA’s heady musical brew of infectious melodies and hard-hitting lyrics piques the interest of rock and metal bands, giving us some iconic ABBA metal covers…
We originally wrote this in 2018 to coincide with the announcement that ABBA had recorded their first songs in 35 years, but there's always an excuse to take a look at 10 kick-ass rock and heavy metal covers of ABBA songs, especially now that the band is officially back together.
1) Yngwie Malmsteen ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!’
2) Ghost ‘I’m A Marionette’
3) Helloween ‘Lay All Your Love on Me’
4) Fozzy ‘SOS’
5) Diablo ‘Dancing Queen’
6) Black Ingvars ‘Waterloo’
7) At Vance ‘Money Money Money’
8) Ash ‘Does Your Mother Know’
9) Metalium ‘Thank You For The Music’
10) Rough Silk ‘Take A Chance On Me’
11) Time Requiem ‘Voulez Vouz’
12) Rob Rock ‘Eagle’
13) MGT & Ville Valo - 'Knowing Me Knowing You'
Fine work!
Check out 69 rock stars' real names:
Edward Louis Severson III (Eddie Vedder)
William Bruce Rose (Axl Rose)
Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury)
Michael Peter Balzary (Flea)
Perry Bernstein (Perry Farrell)
Robert Deal (Mick Mars)
Frank Ferrano (Nikki Sixx)
Frank Edwin Wright III (Tré Cool)
Courtney Michelle Harrison (Courtney Love)
Georg Albert Ruthenberg (Pat Smear)
Chaim Klein Witz (Gene Simmons)
James Newell Osterberg, JR. (Iggy Pop)
Vincent Damon Furnier (Alice Cooper)
Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Ross Hyman)
Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Glenn Colvin)
Saul Hudson (Slash)
Michael Ryan Pritchard (Mike Dirnt)
Ronald James Padavona (Ronnie James Dio)
Bree Joanna Alice Robinson (Brody Dalle)
Chad Robert Turton (Chad Kroeger)
Kim Bendix Petersen (King Diamond)
Glenn Allen Anzalone (Glenn Danzig)
James Owen Sullivan (The Rev)
Richard Allan Ream (Rikki Rockett)
Anthony Scott Flippen (Scott Stapp)
Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. (Synyster Gates)
Deborah Anne Dyer (Skin)
Nicholas Jones (Nicky Wire)
Andrew Fetterly Wilkes Krier (Andrew W.K.)
Zachary James Baker (Zacky Vengeance)
Amy Lynn Hartzler (Amy Lee)
Robert James Ritchie (Kid Rock)
William Perks (Bill Wyman)
Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson (Joey Tempest)
Jeffrey Isbell (Izzy Stradlin)
Stanley Eisen (Paul Stanley)
Henry Garfield (Henry Rollins)
Colin Flooks (Cozy Powell)
Richard Harrison (Rick Parfitt)
Vincent Neil Wharton (Vince Neil)
Michael McKagan (Duff McKagan)
Ian Kilmister (Lemmy)
John Baldwin (John Paul Jones)
Joan Larkin (Joan Jett)
Peter Byford (Biff Byford)
Ray Burns (Captain Sensible)
Keith Palmer (Maxim Reality)
Peter Baker (Ginger Baker)
Darrell Abbott (Dimebag Darrell)
William Michael Albert Broad (Billy Idol)
Eric Patrick Clapp (Eric Clapton)
Susan Janet Ballion (Siouxsie Sioux)
David Robert Hayward Stenton Jones (David Bowie)
Richard Wayne Penniman (Little Richard)
John Simon Ritchie (Sid Vicious)
Paul Daniel Frehley (Ace Frehley)
Sebastian Bierk (Sebastian Bach)
Louis Firbank (Lou Reed)
John Graham Mellor (Joe Strummer)
Robert Bartleh Cummings (Rob Zombie)
Mark Feld (Marc Bolan)
David Howell Evans (The Edge)
Marvin Lee Aday (Meatloaf)
Steven Victor Tallarico (Steven Tyler)
John Michael Osbourne (Ozzy Osbourne)
John Francis Bongiovi (Jon Bon Jovi)
John Anthony Gillis (Jack White)
Paul David Hewson (Bono)
Dominic Richard Harrison (Yungblud)
Daniel Lloyd Davey (Dani Filth)
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