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Both are each band’s crowning achievements, and I like Opeth’s better.

Oooh, I Disappear! What a treat for the die-hards!

I love both songs, but I love The Odyssey far more. This isn't even close.

I like Rush, but Xanadu does little for me and it’s against my favorite Opeth song. The other round is closer, but LVS can’t hold up to a DT track with such massive grooves and crunchy riffs and mood changes.

Here's the thing about this round - just because a song is 9-10+ minutes does not mean that it is an "epic." AJFA is peak Metallica, and it's a fantastic track, but it's a standard song structure with everything just being drawn out. In comparison, The Moor is less archetypal of this, but it's...

While Ghost of Perdition is a top five Opeth track, The Odyssey combines everything that is great about progressive metal in a "compact" package. Easy vote for Symphony X here. The first match is much more difficult. One one hand, The Glass Prison was the song that got me into Dream Theater...

I wish it was Metallica against Stratovarius and Rush against Rush, but here we are. Rush x2.

You’re right - a drunk dying bird.

You are dumb and wrong.

I’m the opposite. Outside of his meh Kamelot output, I’d take Tommy over LaBrie any day of the week. They both have breathy lows which work well, but Karevik lights it up in his upper range whereas LaBrie sounds like a dying bird. Tommy also has a lot more soul to his singing.

I wish this was Savatage vs. Nightwish and Opeth vs. Opeth. It’d make it a lot easier.

This is hilarious. Lars: "Did we used to start Straw with a thing, also?" Rob: "Yeeeeeeeep..."

Dream Theater would be such a better band with a different singer - and I've been saying this for 20 years.

After beating the RE4 remake like 10 times I got burnt out and played Dead Island 2. Just finished it last night, and while it's not perfect, I had more fun with it than other similar zombie bash-'em-ups. I liked how each area is its own map as opposed to the massive open worlds of similar games...

I love Morphine Child, but its theatrical broadwayness doesn't match the grim grittiness of The Moor (even if I consider it to be one of Opeth's most overrated songs). The second match is so insanely tough because the emotion in Ghost Love Score is unparalleled, whereas Blackwater Park is the...

Lars' kit hurts my eyes. Happy to see Holier Than Thou in there, as I've always liked it. Fun little upbeat gem of a song with a killer instrumental section (that bass!) and fiery riffs. Dream Theater would like a word. Kirk played rhythm on Load, Reload, and (I believe) Garage Inc. He's...

Could you imagine this? Portnoy rapping about alcohol violating him would be far worse than anything Nightwish could possibly conjure up on the subject.

Symphony X and Metallica, easily.

No Chicago (or hell, even Illinois date), either. Nothing against the other two bands, but if I'm paying that much for a ticket I want to see a full evening with DT or them with two bands I really like.

@Jer , have you beaten Village yet? The early parts sound fantastic in VR, and I’m sure you’ll like the next major part after the castle. I haven’t even touched another game since the RE4 remake was released. It’s incredible. Somehow Capcom managed to keep the fun factor of the original and...