Cover Versions
The song was covered by death metal band Death on their 1998 album The Sound of Perseverance. All the solos were rewritten for this version.
The Brazilian power metal band Angra has covered the song too on the album Freedom Call, released in 1996. This version also appeared on the Judas Priest tribute album Legends Of Metal - A Tribute To Judas Priest Volume II.
More recently, the British thrash/power metal band Biomechanical did a cover of the song and was included in the Limited Edition of The Empires of the Worlds, featuring Chris Tsangarides, who produced the Painkiller album. In 2010, a Taiwanese metal band CHTHONIC has also done a cover of the song mixed with oriental elements and digitally released it.
The high-energy drum intro was covered by Mike Wengren of Disturbed, as an intro to their cover of Priest's "Living After Midnight".
In May 2011, 7 students from Aaron O'Keefe's music academy near Cincinnnati, Ohio, recorded a cover version of "Painkiller" at Reba McEntire's Starstruck Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. The students ranged in age from 11 to 17. A video of the recording was posted on YouTube.
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