List of cover versions of Black Sabbath songs

This is a list of recorded Black Sabbath covers or samples by notable artists. It does not include bootleg or unrecorded live performances, or any unreleased demo recordings.

It includes, but is not limited to, the following:

A National Acrobat

Second track on album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973).

  • The heavy metal band Metallica covered this song and "Sabbra Cadabra" on their Garage Inc. cover album in one condensed song entitled "Sabbra Cadabra".
  • Swedish stoner/doom metal band DoomDogs covered "A National Acrobat" on their album "Unleash the Truth".
  • Czech singer Jiří Schelinger covered "A National Acrobat" as a member of "František Ringo Čech" band. The song appeared on their debut album "Nemám hlas jako zvon" (My voice does not ring the bell) in 1974 under a name "Metro, dobrý den" (Hello, underground).
  • American psychedelic rock band ACIDTHRONE covered "A National Acrobat" as their 12th song in their 2021 album "The Philosopher's Stoned".

After Forever

Second track on their album Master of Reality (1971).

  • "After Forever" has been covered by Biohazard for Nativity in Black, a Black Sabbath tribute album.[1]
  • Aurora Borealis for Hell Rules: Tribute to Black Sabbath, Vol. 2.
  • Deliverance on their 1992 album What a Joke.
  • Frost Like Ashes on their debut EP Pure As the Blood Covered Snow.
  • Shelter on their 1992 album Quest for Certainty.
  • Stryper on their 2015 album Fallen.
  • Troglodyte Dawn with rewritten lyrics and titled "Forever After" on their 2003 debut album Troglodyte Dawn.
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Sapattivuosi Vol. 2 in Finnish as 'Ikuisuuden jälkeen'.

Air Dance

Sixth track on the album Never Say Die! (1978).

  • Swedish pop singer Lisa Ljungberg covered the song on her 2012 album Seven Seas.

Behind the Wall of Sleep

Third track on their album Black Sabbath (1970).

Black Sabbath

First track on their album Black Sabbath (1970).

Changes

Third track on their album Black Sabbath Vol. 4 (1972).

  • Sampled by rapper Eminem on the song "Going Through Changes" for his Recovery album.
  • A new version with altered lyrics appeared on Prince of Darkness with Kelly Osbourne and Ozzy singing a duet version.
  • Hell Is for Heroes covered this song as a B-side to their single "Night Vision".
  • Fudge Tunnel covered this song on Earache's Masters of Misery compilation.
  • Overkill covered the song on their 1999 cover album Coverkill.
  • Japanese melodic punk band Hi-Standard covered this song on their Making the Road album.
  • In 2013, soul singer Charles Bradley released a single with his version of the song.
  • UK based Heavy/Doom Metal band Raven Black Night covered this song on their 2013's album Barbarian Winter.
  • Jazz Sabbath released an instrumental jazz rendition of this song on their self-titled debut album.

Children of the Grave

Fourth track on their album Master of Reality (1971).

  • Canadian rockers Jet Set Satellite covered the song on their 2008 album End of an Era.
  • American band Racer X released a cover of the song that can be heard on the Japanese version of Technical Difficulties.
  • The song has been covered by German heavy metal band Grave Digger.
  • Also, hardcore punk band The Fartz covered it for their Because This Fuckin' World Still Stinks album.
  • It has also been covered by the Finnish band Tarot on To Live Forever.
  • The American straight edge hardcore band Earth Crisis covered the song for their covers album "Last Of The Sane."
  • The Swedish stoner metal band Hellfueled covered this song on their 2002 demo album "The Red One."
  • The band White Zombie covered "Children of the Grave" for the Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity in Black. It was later released as a promo single in 1994.
  • Melodic death metal band from Sweden Amon Amarth on their compilation album Hymns to the Rising Sun.
  • American death metal band Master on their 1990 self-titled debut album.[8]
  • Cancer Bats covered Children of the Grave on their EP "Bat Sabbath Bastard of Reality".
  • American thrash metal band Havok on their 2013 album Unnatural Selection.[9]
  • Peruvian black metal band Two Face Sinner covered the song on their EP "Buried Alive in Black".
  • Italian doom metal band Firelord covered the song on their 2013 album "Among the Snakes".
  • Neurosis in 1999, on a split EP with Soilent Green that is Volume 6 of the In These Black Days tribute series.
  • American alternative metal band Stone Sour covered this song on their 2015 EP "Meanwhile in Burbank..."
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their debut album in Finnish as 'Hautuumaan lapset'.
  • Jazz Sabbath released an instrumental jazz rendition of this song on their self-titled debut album.

Children of the Sea

Second track on the album Heaven and Hell (1980).

  • Jag Panzer covered the song on the album Holy Dio: A Tribute to the Voice of Metal.
  • Silver Fist covered this song on their album Ave Fenix.
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Ihmisen Merkki in Finnish as "Uneen Hukkuneet".

Cornucopia

Seventh track on their album Black Sabbath Vol.4 (1972).

Die Young

Sixth track on the album Heaven and Hell (1980).

Dirty Women

Eight track on album "Technical Ecstasy"

Disturbing the Priest

Third track on the album "Born Again".

  • American death metal band Coffin Texts covered the song on the 1999 tribute album Hell Rules. The same recording later appeared on their debut album Gods of Creation, Death & Afterlife.

Electric Funeral

Fifth track on their album "Paranoid".

  • Pantera covered the song for Black Sabbath tribute album "Nativity in Black II".
  • Iced Earth covered the song on their album "The Melancholy E.P.".
  • Vitamin String Quartet covered the song on the album "The String Quartet Tribute to Black Sabbath".
  • Cavalera Conspiracy covered the song on their second album "Blunt Force Trauma"
  • Primus covered the song live "Les Claypool".
  • American death metal band Brutality, in 1994 on their album When the Sky Turns Black
  • Candlemass third album Ancient Dreams has a bonus track titled Black Sabbath Medley which includes 1:04 snippet of Electric Funeral.
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Sapattivuosi Vol. 2 in Finnish as 'Sähköhauta'.
  • Krisiun in 2015, on their album Forged in Fury.
  • The 2017 covers album by Slothrust, titled Show Me How You Want It To Be, includes a cover version of "Electric Funeral".[10]

Fairies Wear Boots

Last track on the album "Paranoid".

  • American all-female metal band Phantom Blue covered the song on their 1995 album Prime Cuts & Glazed Donuts.
  • American thrash metal band Flotsam & Jetsam recorded the song in 2008 and included it on the remastered version of their fifth studio album, Drift.
  • American glam rock band Toilet Böys include the song on their EP Sinners and Saints.
  • Rose Hill Drive, an American power trio, covered "Fairies Wear Boots" at the 2007 Hyde Park Calling festival.
  • American jam band Widespread Panic covered the song during their summer 2007 tour and opened the 31 Oct 2010 NOLAween show in tribute to Ozzy who was playing at the nearby Voodoo Experience.
  • American metal band Fozzy released a cover of the song as a bonus track on their 2012 album Sin and Bones.
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their debut album in Finnish as 'Keijujen kengät'.
  • Jazz Sabbath released an instrumental jazz rendition of this song on their self-titled debut album.

Hand of Doom

Sixth track on the album "Paranoid".

Headless Cross

Second track on the album "Headless Cross"

Heaven and Hell

Fourth track on the album "Heaven and Hell".

Hole in the Sky

First track on the album "Sabotage".

  • Overkill covered the song on the album "Fuck You and Then Some".
  • Pantera covered this on the album "The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!".
  • Confessor covered the song on the album "Masters of Misery: The Black Sabbath Earache Tribute".
  • Metallica covered this during Black Sabbath's rock and roll hall of fame induction in 2006.
  • Machine Head cover the song on the 2008 bonus disc of the album "The Blackening".

I

Ninth track on the album "Dehumanizer".

Into the Void

Last track on the album "Master of Reality".

Various artists have covered the song, including

Iron Man

Fourth track on the album Paranoid (1970).

It's Alright

Third track on the album "Technical Ecstasy".

Killing Yourself to Live

Fifth track on the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

  • Anal Cunt covered the song on the album "Masters of Misery:The Black Sabbath Earache Tribute".
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their debut album in Finnish as 'Elävinä kuolleisiin'.

Letters from Earth

Fourth track on the album "Dehumanizer".

Lord of This World

Sixth track on the album "Master of Reality".

Megalomania

Fourth track on the album "Sabotage".

  • Venom covered the song on the album "Prime Evil".

The Mob Rules

Fifth track on the album "Mob Rules".

  • Fozzy covered the song on the album "Happenstance".
  • Benedictum covered the song on their debut album, Uncreation
  • Adrenaline Mob covered the on the album "Adrenaline Mob EP".
  • Iced Earth covered the song on their 2011 album "Dystopia".
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Ihmisen merkki in Finnish as 'Laki 666'.
  • Blue Manner Haze covered the Song on the Album 'Blue Manner Haze'.

Neon Knights

First track on the album "Heaven and Hell".

  • Steel Prophet covered the song on the album "Holy Dio:A Tribute to the Voice of Metal (disc 2)".
  • Iron Savior covered the song on the album "Unification".
  • Westworld covered the song on the album "Cyberdreams".
  • Queensrÿche covered the song on the album "Take Cover".
  • Barón Rojo covered the song on the album "Perversiones".
  • Greek power metal band Innerwish covered Neon Knights on compilation "Sabbath Cadabra: A Greek Tribute to Black Sabbath".
  • Anthrax covered the song on the tribute album "Ronnie James Dio – This Is Your Life".
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Ihmisen merkki in Finnish as 'Pelon lait'.
  • Witchery covered this song

Never Say Die!

First track on the album "Never Say Die!".

N.I.B.

Fourth track on the album "Black Sabbath".

  • Ugly Kid Joe covered the song on the album "Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath".
  • Pitchshifter covered the song on the "Triad" single.
  • Ozzy Osbourne performed the song for his live album "Speak of the Devil".
  • Type O Negative covered the song on the album "Nativity in Negativity (Nativity disc)".
  • Cave In covered the song on the album "Relapse Sampler 1999".
  • Primus covered the song on the album "Nativity in Black II: A Tribute to Black Sabbath".
  • Acid Drinkers covered the song on the album "Fishdick".
  • Cancer Bats covered N.I.B. on their EP "Bat Sabbath Bastard of Reality".
  • Danzig covered the song on their 2015 album Skeletons.
  • Krokus open the 2017 album "Big Rocks" with a 1:16 snippet of the N.I.B. riff
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their debut album in Finnish as 'S.Ä.N.K.I.'.
  • Carnivore (band) covered N.I.B at a show at L'Amour BKLYN in 1989.
  • Zakk Wylde covered the song for Loudwire YouTube Chanel, on a Hello Kitty Mini-Guitar, as well as an acoustic cover for SiriusXM YouTube Chanel.

Over and Over

Last track on the album "Mob Rules".

Cover versions of "Over and Over were performed by:

Paranoid

Second track on the album "Paranoid".

Cover versions of "Paranoid" were performed by:

Planet Caravan

Third track on the album "Paranoid".

  • The Anomoanon covered this song on the Black Sabbath tribute album Everything Comes & Goes.
  • Pantera covered the song on the album Far Beyond Driven.
  • Mercury Rev as part of a 2001 John Peel radio session and as a B-side on CD1 of their 2002 single The Dark Is Rising.
  • Clive Jones of Black Widow and Agony Bag in 2007.
  • Cable on In These Black Days: Volume 4, a tribute to Black Sabbath.
  • Estonian band Rondellus covered this song in Medieval style, on their tribute album Sabbatum, for voice, lute and psaltery. In their version the lyrics are translated into Latin, and the song has been retitled "Planetarum Vagatio" (literally, "Wandering of the Planets").
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Vol. 2 in Finnish as 'Planeettakaravaani'.

Rat Salad

Seventh track on the album "Paranoid".

  • Jazz Sabbath released an instrumental jazz rendition of this song on their self-titled debut album.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

First track on the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

  • Bruce Dickinson covered the song with American band Godspeed on the tribute album Nativity in Black.
  • Swedish pop band The Cardigans covered this song on their 1994 album, Emmerdale (album).
  • The thrash metal band Anthrax also covered the song on their 1987 EP I'm the Man.
  • Bluegrass band Iron Horse covered "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" on their album Black & Bluegrass: A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath.
  • Melbourne, Australia-based group bZARK covered "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" on their 1998 EP, "I Don't Know How It Is (But I'm Gonna Tell You Anyway)."
  • Covered by Today Is the Day on the Hydra Head seven inch tribute In These Black Days. Included as a hidden bonus track on their album Temple of the Morning Star.
  • Horror metal band Ripper has covered the song for their album 'Third Witness' released in 2015 by Black Widow Records
  • Austrian blackened death metal group Belphegor for their debut album the Last Supper.
  • Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth on the Viking Edition bonus disc of their album Versus the World.
  • German hard rock band iRockers Crew has covered this song on YouTube in 2014.[23]
  • Epic Doom Metal band Candlemass included 50 seconds on Black Sabbath Medley which is a bonus track on Ancient Dreams.

Sabbra Cadabra

Fourth track on the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

Shock Wave

Fifth track on the album "Never Say Die!".

  • Cathedral covered the song on the album "Masters of Misery - Black Sabbath: An Earache Tribute".

Sleeping Village

The intro to "Sleeping Village" has been performed by many Black Sabbath tribute bands.

Snowblind

Sixth track on the album "Black Sabbath Vol. 4"

Solitude

Seventh track on the album "Master of Reality".

Spiral Architect

Last track on the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

  • This song was covered by Finnish cello metal band Apocalyptica for a free tribute CD issued by Metal Hammer magazine, as well as the iTunes deluxe edition of their album 7th Symphony.
  • Finnish tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their Vol 2. album in Finnish as 'Kierteen arkkitehti'.

St. Vitus Dance

Ninth track on the album "Black Sabbath Vol. 4".

  • Cathedral covered the song on the album "After Forever".

Supernaut

Fifth track on the album "Black Sabbath Vol. 4".

Sweet Leaf

First track on the album "Master of Reality".

Symptom of the Universe

Third track on the album "Sabotage".

  • The thrash metal band Sepultura covered the song for the Black Sabbath tribute album, "Nativity in Black".
  • The song has also been covered by Helmet, noticeably in the film The Jerky Boys: The Movie, in which they are featured as the club band with Ozzy Osbourne guest-starring as their manager.
  • Finnish thrash metal band Stone released a version as a bonus track on their 2008 compilation Stoneage 2.0.
  • American rock band Comes With the Fall have also covered in on their album Live 2002.
  • In the documentary A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett can be seen jamming the main riff to the song in his hotel room. It was also covered in 2010 by Orange Goblin for a Metal Hammer tribute CD to Black Sabbath and by the Melvins in 1989 on their Melvins/Mudhoney split 7-inch Album.
  • Ukrainian thrash metal band Violent Omen covered the song on their full-length album "Lunatic's Revenge" released in April 2011.
  • UK based thrash metal band Deathwish covered the song on their second full-length album "Demon Preacher".
  • Candlemass open the song Black Sabbath Medley with 1:30 of this song on the album Ancient Dreams.
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Sapattivuosi Vol. 2 in Finnish as 'Matka universumiin'.

The Sign of the Southern Cross

Third track on the album "Mob Rules".

  • Fates Warning covered the song on the album "Holy Dio: A Tribute to the Voice of Metal (disc 1)".
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their album Ihmisen merkki in Finnish as 'Ihmisen merkki'.

The Wizard

Second song on the album "Black Sabbath".

  • The song was covered by Rob Halford's band Bullring Brummies for the Black Sabbath tribute album "Nativity in Black".[29]
  • The song was covered by Zakk Wylde's band Pride & Glory on the second disc of the reissue of "Pride & Glory". Wylde had also been a member of Ozzy Osbourne's solo band at the time.
  • Scorn covered the song on the album "Masters of Misery: The Black Sabbath Earache Tribute".
  • Zakk Wylde also covered the song on the album "Rare Trax".
  • Botch covered the song on the album "Cave in/Botch".
  • Finley Quaye covered the song on the album "Spiritualized".
  • Shihad covered the song on the EP album "Devolve".
  • Brand New Sin covered this song as track 16 on their 2011 album "United State".
  • Finnish Black Sabbath tribute band Sapattivuosi covered this song on their debut album in Finnish as 'Parantaja'.

Time Machine

Sixth track on the album "Dehumanizer".

  • Pegasus covered the song on the album "Death... Is Just the Beginning, Volume 6 (disc 1)".

Tomorrow's Dream

Second track on the album "Black Sabbath Vol. 4".

TV Crimes

Third track on the album "Dehumanizer".

  • Plan 4 covered the song on the album "Sabbath Crosses: Tributo a Black Sabbath".

Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes

Last track on the album "Black Sabbath Vol. 4

War Pigs

First track on the album "Paranoid".

Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener

First track on the album "Black Sabbath Vol. 4".

  • Estonian band Rondellus on their tribute album Sabbatum, sung by two female voices accompanied by a frame drum. Their version has lyrics translated into Latin, and the song has been retitled "Rotae Confusionis".[42]
  • Doom metal band Cathedral on the tribute album Masters of Misery - The Earache Tribute.

Who are You

Sixth track on the album "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".

  • OLD covered the song on the album "Tribute to Black Sabbath: Eternal Masters".
  • Goatsnake covered the song on the album "1 + Dog Days".

Wicked World

Last track on the album "Black Sabbath".

Zero the Hero

Fifth track on the album "Born Again".

  • Cannibal Corpse covered the song on the album "Tribute to Black Sabbath: Eternal Masters", which also appeared on their 1993 "Hammer Smashed Face" EP.
  • German/American hard rock band Thunderhead covered the song on their 1995 album "Were You Told the Truth About Hell?".
  • Godflesh covered the song on the tribute album Masters of Misery - The Earache Tribute.

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