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Heavy Metal Tournament, First Round

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Ended up with only 16 bands but I believe it's enough to have a good tournament. Here are the matchups:

 

Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

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Guest Coffey

Iron Maiden

Megadeth

Pantera

Judas Priest

Black Sabbath

Slayer

Metallica

Motörhead

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Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

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Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

The original is always better than the knockoff.

 

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

There's really one Megadeth album I can listen to in full, despite their impact and Dave's talent.

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

Partially for nostalgic purposes due to Dime's death, partially because I hate guitar wankery that has no purpose.

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

I'm a bigger Helloween fan than I am a Priest fan, but Priest and Sabbath and Maiden are the trifecta of old-school British metal.

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

Fuck Gothenburg. And fuck everything after Clayman, too.

 

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

I'm really sick of everybody creaming themselves over Ozzy's solo career. It sucked outside of a few songs, Randy Rhoades is overrated, and there's a reason Ozzy resorted to a reality TV show to regain popularity.

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

Mostly because I can't get into black metal, since St. Anger was inexcusable.

 

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

Lemmy is God. Belladonna sucks. SOD > Anthrax. 'Nuff said.

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Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

Sepultura vs. Megadeth - This one took an awful lot of time to think about.

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater -This one simply came down to personal preference, as it was a tough decision

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

Motörhead vs. Anthrax - Close one, but Lemmy comes through.

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Iced Earth got screwed.

 

Iron Maiden

Megadeth

Pantera

Judas Priest

Black Sabbath

Slayer

I'm abstaining from Metallica/Emperor. I don't listen to Emperor, and I refuse to vote for Metallica.

Anthrax

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Where are KMFDM and Queensryche?

 

Anyway:

 

Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

No brainer, Iced Earth is ok but nothing special.

 

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

Metallica is already here and they play a similar style to I count out Megadeth.

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

I've outed myself as a fan of wanking.

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

Judas Priest is of course the much more "important" band but I've never really liked them.

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

No contest.

 

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

Again no contest, I'm surprised Ozzy is here at all.

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

No explanation needed.

 

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

Ditto

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Guest Bammey

Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth- Lets go with Maiden.

 

Sepultura vs. Megadeth- Megadeth.

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater- Pantera.

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween- Never heard of Helloween, gonna go with Priest.

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames- Sabbath.

 

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne- Ozzy.

 

Metallica vs. Emperor- Metallica.

 

Motörhead vs. Anthrax- Motorhead.

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Why didn't you nominate S.O.D, Corey? I figured they would have gotten a few nominations. I guess they only have two albums with only one being a real classic.

You know, I don't know why. They're too borderline of a hardcore band, though. Some of their songs are straight-up speed/thrash metal, and others are just pure hardcore (most of Bigger Than The Devil, for example). At least with Shadows Fall and Sepultura (both of whom I nominated) the metal sides shine while the hardcore influence is present but not overpowering (though in Sepultura's case, I suppose their influence on hardcore is bigger than hardcore's influence on them).

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Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

 

Maiden

 

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

 

Megadeth

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

 

Dream Theater

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

 

Judas Priest, easily.

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

 

Sabbath

 

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

 

Slayer, easily.

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

 

Emperor

 

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

 

Motorhead.

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Iron Maiden

 

Sepultura

Sepultura is my fave metal band.

 

Pantera

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

pass, don't know enough about the bands.

 

Black Sabbath

 

Slayer

Tough one here.

 

Metallica

 

Motörhead

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Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

 

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

 

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

 

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

 

The only two hard picks were Slayer and Motorhead. I actually prefer Ozzy and Anthrax, but I know the other two mean more to the metal world.

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Iron Maiden vs. Iced Earth

Iron Maiden

 

 

Sepultura vs. Megadeth

Megadeth

 

Pantera vs. Dream Theater

Pantera (but i hate them both)

 

Judas Priest vs. Helloween

Judas Priest (Helloween rocks though)

 

Black Sabbath vs. In Flames

Sabbath if Dio is singing

 

Slayer vs. Ozzy Osbourne

Slayer sadly

 

Metallica vs. Emperor

Metallica

 

 

Motörhead vs. Anthrax

Motorhead (Anthrax rocks too though)

 

 

wow what a shitty tournament, so many good bands left out

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While I agree with you, K, Megadeth did have a bit more impact on metal, and are one of the most popular bands of the style. When reciting great speed/thrash metal bands of the 80's, nobody EVER misses out on Megadeth. Exodus and Testament? Yeah, people forget about them. But not Megadeth.

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