Here’s a Death Metal Version of “What Is Love”

If you were alive and listening to mainstream radio or watching MTV in 1992, you probably couldn’t go more than an hour without hearing Haddaway’s “What Is Love.” The song then had something of a resurgence a little later in the decade, thanks to Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan’s recurring “Roxbury Guys” sketches on Saturday Night Live (and the subsequent movie based on those sketches, A Night at the Roxbury). It’s an INSANELY catchy song — love it or hate it, it will get stuck in your head for hours and hours after just one listen. It’s borderline dangerous.

It’s unlikely that at the time anyone would have predicted that 28 years later, someone would record a death metal cover of the track… shit, in 1992, there were probably people predicting that death metal as a genre wouldn’t even last 28 years. But here we are: Nuclear Winter, a one-man death metal band from Zimbabwe, has released a DM version of the tune. Featuring vocals by Dividing the Element’s Chris Van, the cover is… well, it’s more or less what you’d expect.

Still, if you’re morbidly curious — and if you’ve gotten this far and are still reading, I’d wager that you are! — you can check out the cover below (via Sleeping Village):