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Seems like Deep Purple isn't that highly regarded on this forum in general, sadly. To me they're one of the greatest bands ever, and absolutely vital in me getting into rock and metal back in the day. Missed this round, but my votes wouldn't have changed any of the outcomes anyway.

Black Sabbath. Listened to "The Wizard" on the way to work this morning, and it's been stuck in my head since. You can never go wrong with early Sabbath. Evoken is good musically; I just wish they had clean vocals instead. Warlord. "Hail to the King" is one of the few Avenged Sevenfold that I...

Judas Priest. We've had way too many weaker Priest songs that don't really deserve to be in this game, but I think "Metal Gods" is good fun. Silly? Obviously, but also very enjoyable. As for Opeth, well, I have kinda accepted that I'll never be a big fan of them. Sometimes they hit home...

Missed a couple of rounds, but there's tons of good stuff in this one, so I figured it was a perfect time to get back at it. Gamma Ray. I love "Valley of the Kings", one of my favourite tunes from the Rays. "Hell Awaits" has a great build-up and is full of good riffs, so it was a close one...

So it's well-known that Bruce has claimed "moral credit" on songs like The Prisoner, Children of the Damned and Run to the Hills, and Janick obviously had a hand in writing Bring Your Daughter... I'm curious as to which songs did Adrian contribute to without being credited?

I really like "Angry Again". I don't know how liked or disliked it is in the general Megadeth community, but I find that chorus infectiously good. Meanwhile, "Angel of Death" is a bit of a mess and nowhere near as memorable as the eponymously titled Angel Witch song we had a few rounds back. So...

Sabbath, easily. Metallica definitely has songs that are better than "Paranoid" (which is awesome, but not Sabbath's very best), but not "Fight Fire with Fire". I mean, come on. "Keeper of the Seven Keys" is definitely the lesser of Helloween's two early epics, but it IS the superior song in...

Why thank you. I do find it unethical to vote for myself, so I'll probably go with Book of Thel.

With very few exceptions, 20+ minute songs are generally too much for me. I don't think I've listened to "A Change of Seasons" in full since I bought it some 15 years ago. I'm not going to do so now due to lack of time, but I probably ought to revisit it soon; the first couple of minutes alone...

Black Sabbath. "War Pigs" is my favourite Sabbath song bar none, so it's no contest, even if "Purple Haze" is a great classic too. Megadeth. Tempted to vote for a very good Symphony X tune, but have to go with my gut and "Symphony of Destruction" here. White Zombie. I suppose the tiebreaker is...

Slayer. Y&T's song is fine, but very forgettable. Van Halen. "Ain't Talking 'Bout Love" has one my favourite guitar riffs ever; Liquid Tension Experiment bore the hell out of me. Insomnium. A fantastic piece of melodic death metal with great atmospherics. I really don't care for anything off...

"Stargazer", "Victim of Changes" and "Highway Star" are all easy and obvious choices. All three belong among their artists best; two of them have Blackmore, which is already an advantage in itself, and while the studio version of "Victim of Changes" doesn't slay quite as hard as the live version...

Eh... Sorry, Mosh, but Skunkworks is the lowest ranked album on my list, not the highest.

I much prefer The Who in general to System of a Down, but "Toxicity" is probably the song that best represents the latter's style, even if it's not exactly my favourite. Usually I refrain from the whole "is it metal or not" debate, but in a Greatest Metal Song Cup, I will pick "Toxicity" over...

Almost. My take: Dio's (the band) overall output is very, very good, and Holy Diver is probably the best of the bunch, but it's still not quite as good as any of the albums he did with Rainbow or Sabbath. Yes, that includes Dehumanizer.

"Elimination" has great guitarwork, but also very shitty vocals. The same can usually be said about anything that involves King Diamond, but "Eye of the Witch" is actually guite good, especially since he sounds tolerable most of the time. Since it's the only song of his I can honestly say I like...

"Deliverance" is apparently seen as one of Opeth's best songs, but I kinda fail to see why. I mean, it's not bad, but it never truly takes off, and the ending just goes on for way too long. I think they've done a lot better. "Through the Eyes of Terror" wastes little time in getting to the point...

Probably the easiest round yet. Queensrÿche Metallica Rainbow Ozzy Sabbath Ozzy The other songs are just vastly inferior in each of the match-ups.

First match is definitely the toughest. "Twilight of the Thunder God" is what I'd consider a modern classic of melodic death metal, while Oceanborn is my favourite Nightwish album, and even if it's not the track that I think stands out the most, "Passion and the Opera" is still great and one of...

"Back in Black" may be iconic, but at the end of the day it's just another AC/DC song. "Carry On Wayward Son" is superior vocally, musically and lyrically, and the only real argument I could find in favour of "Back in Black" is that it's closer to metal. But neither song IS metal, so that won't...