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It has been a long time since we've had a Maiden game going and I want to try something we haven't done before. It clicked with me the other day that they have 16 albums, perfect for a bracket-style competition. The point of this game is to match up one album against another, song for song as...

With Now Playing basically being a rolling list of songs and the random song review thread seeming to have died a quiet death I want to do something a little different to spark some music conversation outside the survivor threads. Things always seem to work better around here with a theme and...

Welcome to the first Maidenfans Iron Maiden lyrics tourney where the most knowledgeable Iron Maiden fans in the world determine the best song lyrics crafted by the world's greatest band. First some instruction: There are three factors to consider when considering your vote: 1) The meaning: is...

A total of 45 songs have qualified for the playoffs. The ones that got promoted quickly get an early playoff bye. Small change for the playoffs. In any given round you can vote for up to half the available songs. In this open round that means 13 songs.

RULES: Instead of voting off your least favourite songs, I want you to VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITES. In the elimination rounds you get SEVEN votes. To make the game work, please try to use them all. In the playoffs we will relax the seven vote rule and allow for more strategic voting. Any track...

Given the recent run on Dio love here, the time appears ripe for another Dio Survivor. But I am going to do this one with a twist. Instead of voting off your least favourite songs, I want you to VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITES. In the elimination rounds you get SEVEN votes. To make the game work...

I know the whole rock band with orchestra is something many people loathe as pompous, pretentious and overdone. I think I might have even heard comments from Iron Maiden to that effect. But I like the orchestration peppered in modern Maiden albums and the YouTube videos of people playing...

Almost exactly five years ago I joined this board during the hype surrounding the release of The Final Frontier. In the déjà vu atmosphere created by The Book of Souls, the time seems ripe to revisit TFF with a perspective only time can create. I gave it a re-listen yesterday and came to this...

These are songs most people know. At one time, pretty much all of them were hits at some level and they've been kept alive through radio airplay, journalists talking and writing about them, and bands playing them over and over again. Their success has proven they are certainly commercially...

Welcome to the survivor for the Rodney Dangerfield of Iron Maiden, Mr. Janick Gers. This was a little hard to set up in terms of albums, so I broke it into six groups: pre-Maiden, Tattooed Millionaire, Fear of the Dark/Bruce B sides, X Factor, More Blaze, Reunion This first group will be the...

...a tie. As most would have predicted, this forum loves Priest and Sabbath pretty much equally. Rush and Queen finish in a tie for third. Metallica and Dio finish in the top eight this year, replacing Led Zeppelin and Rainbow from 2012. Pink Floyd and Megadeth retain their top eight spots...

And after two close semi-finals we have a repeat of the first World Cup final: The arguments, as presented in 2012:

Priest has a slight edge on Queen in the other semi-final here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/world-cup-of-maidenfans-2-0-final-four-battle-1.28461/page-2#post-461767 The penultimate match of the tournament: versus

And we are in to the final four. Last year's finalists and pre-tournament favourites are joined by two powerhouse acts whose presence is anything but a surprise Our first match: versus

Black Sabbath has a sizeable lead on Pink Floyd in the road the remains open here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/world-cup-of-maidenfans-2-0-great-eight-battle-3.28439/#post-461287 Our last quarter-final may be the toughest http://www.thetoptens.com/rock-bands/metallica-1027.asp...

Judas Priest and Queen advance to the semi-finals. Who will join them? http://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/honest-and-unmerciful-writers-on-black-sabbath/ http://www.neontommy.com/news/2014/04/black-sabbath-hollywood-bowl-show-review or...

Judas Priest versus Dio continues here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/world-cup-of-maidenfans-2-0-great-eight-battle-1.28406/ Today's match: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/456051/ http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3234254.Dave_Mustaine versus...

The preliminaries are over. And if the lopsided results of the Sweet 16 are any indication, we are left with what is very much the consensus top eight bands in the World Cup of Maidenfans. We open with...

Rush dumps AC/DC to advance Dio leads Dire Straits in the previous round, which is open for voting here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/world-cup-of-maidenfans-2-0-sweet-16-round-7.28366/ And the last match in what has been a lopsided Sweet Sixteen pits against

Black Sabbath crushes Led Zeppelin to advance The previous round (Rush versus AC/DC) remains open for voting here: http://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/world-cup-of-maidenfans-2-0-sweet-16-round-6.28361/ Today's match: versus