Ke$ha, B.o.B., and Lady Antebellum: The death-metal YouTube covers you've been waiting for

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Image Credit: Anthony Delvin/PA Photos/Landov“Tik tok on the clock, but the party don’t … BLARGHGHGHGHGH!!!”

And thus, from the wood-paneled rec-room walls of Billboard Death Metal, a delicate flower of musical diversity blossoms.

The impressively focused group of hirsuite gentlemen behind BDM have now taken on, as their name implies, several recent top Billboard hits —including Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok,” Justin Beiber’s “Baby,” Rihanna’s “Rude Boy,” and Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now”—and executed them in a style best described as “cookie monster hopped up on Metallica and bathtub meth.”

Watch a sampling, after the jump:

The best part? The way Asian dude pretends not to know the lyrics, like he really needs the crib sheet. Better get to work on “OMG,” you two. (And perhaps a deep conditioning treatment.)

(Thanks to Videogum).

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