Nation-pop celebrity Carrie Underwood carried out a number of rock covers throughout her set this previous Saturday (August 5) because the opening act for GUNS N’ ROSES in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Underwood‘s 18-song live performance at Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium included her renditions of such iconic rock hits as Joan Jett‘s “Unhealthy Status”, Pat Benatar‘s “Hit Me With Your Greatest Shot”, THE ROLLING STONES‘ “Wild Horses”, HEART’s “Alone” and LED ZEPPELIN‘s “Rock And Roll”.

However the greatest shock of the evening got here when she delivered a high-energy model of MOTÖRHEAD‘s timeless traditional “Ace Of Spades”, a music she had beforehand used because the hype anthem and the tune that performed previous to her taking the stage on her headlining “Denim & Rhinestones” tour earlier this yr.

Underwood‘s love for rock music has been well-documented, having beforehand joined GUNS N’ ROSES on stage throughout the band’s 2022 live performance at London, England’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. She additionally launched her model of Ozzy Osbourne‘s “Mama, I am Comin’ House” for Apple Music Periods, a reside efficiency collection launched by the tech large.

Carrie mentioned in a 2014 interview that late QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury was excessive on her checklist of first loves.

“I’ve all the time been an enormous fan and lover of Freddie Mercury,” she mentioned. “I’d hearken to him once I was a child. He might accomplish that many superb issues along with his voice. Folks like that — who had unimaginable voices — I used to be all the time drawn to. I’d wish to attempt to do what they do. They have been my lecturers.”

She additionally mentioned that if you happen to scrolled via her iPod, you’d discover some actually exhausting rock music, like MUDVAYNE.

“After I work out, I wish to hearken to issues which are actually indignant,” she mentioned. “I could not do it every day or driving in my automotive. I believe that might be form of bizarre.”

When I PREVAIL took to Twitter in September 2022 and shared concerning the band’s third studio album, “True Energy”, “One month of ‘TRUE POWER’. 56M streams. All because of you.” Underwood replied to the tweet with, “I believe I used to be a lot of them!” She additionally added a “face with tears of pleasure” emoji.

This previous February, a number of members of I PREVAIL attended Underwood‘s live performance at Little Caesars Area in Detroit, with the singer later writing on social media: “I used to be so excited to have the fellows from @iprevailband on the present final evening in Michigan!!! I attempted to play it cool and never fangirl an excessive amount of! Tremendous nice guys!!! I am hoping I get to catch certainly one of their reveals this yr!!!”

Within the feedback part under Underwood‘s Instagram submit, I PREVAIL vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe wrote: “There was an equal quantity of fangirling haha. Thanks once more for having us out! Present was unimaginable.” In the meantime, I PREVAIL co-vocalist Brian Burkheiser wrote: “Thanks for an unimaginable evening!!!”