Which version of "Whole Lotta Love" is better?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Original
emoviolence cover

I much the version by the very influential emoviolence band Orchid. I'd also be interested in hearing emoviolence covers of Immigrant Song and Stairway to Heaven.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Having actually wasted a minute and half of my life listening to this:

Oh, god, emoviolence is even worse than I imagined it would be.

Emoviolence is a pretty extreme example of "acquired taste", I didn't like it at all the first time I heard it either. This kind of makes sense considering it's an offshoot of an offshoot of an offshoot and often makes use of techniques that would simply be considered objectively bad in most mainstream musical genres, such as intentionally playing out of tune or using more distorted recording.

But Orchid is probably one of the most accessible bands of the genre. On the other end of the spectrum you have this.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

When I say Orchid are accessible I mean that fans of things like metalcore and hardcore often also like them, if you're completely out of the scene and all you won't find it accessible at all. That said, a cover isn't the best example of them, something like this would be. But emoviolence isn't a defined genre, it's really just an umbrella term for any type of hardcore that's screamy and includes lots of (real) emo influence. Something like this could be included, and that's certainly more accessible than Orchid.

The main problem is the death-metal-esque vocals, of course.

LOL. Saying that would probably piss off actual metalheads far more than me. The only screaming in death metal vocals is backing vocals, anything with screaming lead vocals is almost certainly not real metal (metalcore doesn't count) in fact.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Having actually wasted a minute and half of my life listening to this:

Oh, god, emoviolence is even worse than I imagined it would be.

Hmmm I recall you talking about how one should not write off entire genres...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Having actually wasted a minute and half of my life listening to this:

Oh, god, emoviolence is even worse than I imagined it would be.

Hmmm I recall you talking about how one should not write off entire genres...

If this song is presented as a good, or even average quality, example of the genre, I'm cofortable doing so, thank you.

As stated above it's a quite diverse genre. And a single track that happens to be a cover which was also recorded in a basement and appeared only a band's demo tape is the never the best example. Compare to these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maihcCjGQe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sRwHHo90i0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFv2jtHaeY0