Heavy Metal World Cup: Quarter-Final Results! Semi-Final Draw!
BBC 6 music’s Heavy Metal World Cup are down to the last 4 bands and there is a massive upset in the quarter finals!
16 bands compete this week on BBC 6 Music to be crowned the ultimate metal band of all time and yesterday, we got down to the last 4.
Results were determined in a best of three fashion. One point came courtesy of the 6 Music audience, one vote was given to Jerry Ewing of Classic Rock Presents Prog and one vote came from the 6 Music rock/metal experts.
Here are the results of the quarter finals:
Slayer 3-0 Judas Priest
Anthrax 0-3 Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath 2-1 Saxon (audience vote and Jerry’s vote, 6 music’s vote for Saxon)
AC/DC 1-2 Motorhead (jerry’s vote for AC/DC, 6 music’s vote and the audience vote for Motorhead)
So the semi-final line-up is as follows:
Slayer vs Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath vs Motorhead
Who will compete in the final of the Heavy Metal World Cup? Listen to BBC 6 Music from 4pm to find out!





booooooo Saxon should of won cause how amazing they are live
Maiden better win.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, Slayer vs Sabbath final.
It’ll be Maiden Vs. Sabbath I bet.
And if Maiden win and Sharon hears she’ll go after them with half a dozen eggs or so once again
I’m pulling for a Maiden v Sabbath final, though it would be quite a kick to see Motorhead in the final 2!!
Without Sabbath, there is no metal.
Maiden HAVE to win this. I know without Sabbath blah blah blah but Maiden are the best live band, consistently bring out good albums and are probably more influential too! \m/ UP THE IRONS! \m/
has to be maiden,they have never sold out,never conformed to trends,influenced nearly every metal band on the planet in one way or another and to this day are still releasing top albums.
Ah bollocks, I’m Metallica to the core, but it always had to be Sabbath. Quit giving it all the “Maiden this” “Maiden that”, without Sabbath, there would be no Maiden. I saw Maiden last year at Twickenham and nearly fell asleep. Bruce is so fucking boring, screaming the same fucking thing every 30 seconds “scream for me London…SCREAM FOR ME LOOONDOOON!!”. Seriously guys, learn some new notes and then play them.
Every metal album ever released can be traced back to the first Sabbath album. And, incidentally, it’s about time there was a much greater appreciation of Geezer Butler. The unsung hero of metal.
slayer and black sabbath
MAIDEN is Boring !??? Oh, no – ‘Tallica are the posers, money-making millionaires, justy trendy pretenders for kids! Hetfield is a toy puddle with comparition to Bruce. MAIDEN shoul be No# 1!
so looking like a Maiden/Sabbath final then?
I’d like to see Slayer in the final but remember who the votes come from here!
Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
Maiden vs Sabbath for the final
, i love both bands but i want Maiden to win.
Yes Sabbath created metal but bands like Iron Maiden perfected it.
And to that guy who said the Irons are boring, it really must take a hell of a lot to entertain you, Iron Maiden are one of the best live metal acts to have graced this earth. And unlike Metallica at least Iron Maiden keep putting out cracking abums and sound better live then they did in the 80s. Its a more a less a reverse situation for Metallica in my opinion.
Slayer and Sabbath please!!!!
maiden and sabbath
IRON MAIDEN and BLACK SABBATH
Maiden
Sabbath
MAIDEN must be the WINNER!
sabbath maiden final with maiden winning
metallica out after round 1??? this is the biggest load of bollocks ever. puppets is the greatest metal album ever released, black album the biggest.
i think they put metallica out in the first round to be all ‘alternative’, i agree tutty. Metallica are the best/biggest metal band ever, simple as that.
everyone knows it’s gunna be Maiden & Sabbath! but who will win … love them both to pieces! probably Maiden though me thinks, their more popular!
Motorhead
FTW!
Matt – I went to over 70 gigs last year and I found Maiden’s show and songs very formulaic. When you’ve heard one song, you know exactly how every other one is going to pan out and Bruce performs them all exactly the same. In truth, I went because I enjoyed them at Download but I worked out that’s because I was hammered…
Ok Slayer are really fucking good but better than Judas Priest?! No fucking way maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
people, stop saying maiden is gunna win, they have 1% of the votes, stop voting for the only bands you’ve herd of because you dont listin to music. as painful as it is, it looks like the Finland band (HIM) is going to take this, but A7X all the way!
slayer vs sabbath…slayer for the win son
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WHERE IS THE DEATH METAL