The always clever, often hilarious Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones has published a video on MySpace listing his Top 5 favorite metal covers of all time. Howard has impeccible taste in music (he cites Faith No More / Mike Patton whenever given the opportunity), so you knew his choices were going to be interesting — and he came up with some great ones. It’s interesting to note how his own vocal style echoes the singers of the bands he’s chosen here. Anyway, his choices are:

• #5: Ryan Adams covering “Down In a Hole” (Alice in Chains) — [ed: who knew?? It's really good, too.]
• #4: Pantera covering “Planet Caravan” (Black Sabbath)
• #3: Throwdown covering “Baby Got Back”
• #2: H.I.M. covering “Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
• #1: Faith No More covering “Easy” (The Commodores)

After the jump, we’ve dug up the videos for all 5 covers! Click on through, to the other side.

Ryan Adams covering “Down In A Hole” (Alice in Chains)
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Pantera covering “Planet Caravan” (Black Sabbath)
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H.I.M. covering “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak)
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Throwdown covering “Baby Got Back” (Sir Mix A Lot) — audio only
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Faith No More covering “Easy” (The Commodores)
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Enjoy those.

-VN