Metal Madness

Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013 is down to the final four! This year's bracketed competition has been a rollercoaster of victory and despair as we've challenged metalheads to name the greatest metal album of all time. Beginning with 32 albums, metal fans from around the world have been casting their votes, successfully narrowing down the mass of metal masterpieces to only four records. Read Mo

Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013 continues to search for metal's all-time greatest album with yet another battle of epic proportions. We're down to the final four, and this pairing places together two metal masterpieces from the early '90s.

We're down to the final four acts in Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013, with each of the four regions crowning a champion. We're one step closer in naming the greatest metal album of all time, and the competition has been narrowed down to both classic and modern legends.

And so we venture into the Quarterfinals of Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013. Having started with 32 of metal's greatest and most influential albums, we're now down to just eight as Round 2 resulted in the elimination of even more legendary discs.

The Devil Horn Region of 2013's March Metal Madness comes down to Dream Theater's 'Images and Words' taking on Judas Priest's 'Screaming for Vengeance' to advance to the final four as we try to determine the best metal album of all-time.

In the Stage Dive Region of Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013, two heavyweight acts remain! The masses of fans have made their voices heard in our previous battles, but they now face a difficult choice in who advances to the final four.

The Mosh Pit region of March Metal Madness is left with two of the "Big 4," as thrash metal titans Slayer and Megadeth send their most classic albums -- 'Reign in Blood' and 'Rust in Peace' -- into the gauntlet to determine which disc will advance to the semifinals in the battle to determine the greatest metal album of all-time.

We're in the Quarterfinals of Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013! Here in the Headbanger Region, we're down to our last two acts, and we have a hell of a match up this round. We're fairly certain that no matter this round's outcome, Ozzy Osbourne will be moving on to the Semifinals in the competition to name the greatest metal album ever.

Welcome to Round 2 of Loudwire's March Metal Madness 2013, the tournament to determine the greatest metal album of all time.

It's time to bring the heavy! Tool's '90s classic 'Ænima' squares off against Judas Priest's landmark album 'Screaming for Vengeance' in Round 2 of the 2013 March Metal Madness' Devil Horn Region in the battle to determine the greatest metal album ever.