In May 2001, the American rock band Alien Ant Farm released a "funky metallic” cover of "Smooth Criminal" as the second single from their second studio album, Anthology (2001). According to the band's lead singer, Dryden Mitchell, the band would play a few riffs of the song while warming up before gigs and audience members would request the entire song. The cover became a number-one hit on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and was also a number-one hit in Australia for eight weeks.

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