Extreme Metal Olympics

It's Cradle of Filth's 'Dusk and Her Embrace' (Great Britain) against Dir En Grey's 'Dum Spiro Spero' (Japan) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

It's Belphegor's 'Lucifer Incestus' (Austria) against Behemoth's 'The Satanist' (Poland) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

It's Children of Bodom's 'Follow the Reaper' (Finland) against Gojira's 'From Mars to Sirius' (France) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

It's Aborted's 'Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done' (Belgium) against Kreator's 'Pleasure to Kill' (Germany) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

It's Sepultura's 'Beneath the Remains' (Brazil) against Kataklysm's 'Shadows and Dust' (Canada) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

It's Fleshgod Apocalypse's 'Oracles' (Italy) against Opeth's 'Blackwater Park' (Sweden) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

It's Death's 'Human' (U.S.A.) against Psycroptic's 'The Scepter of the Ancients' (Australia) in Round 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics.

Thanks so much to everyone who helped make our very first Extreme Metal Olympics so successful. After nearly three weeks and hundreds of thousands of votes being cast throughout, Japanese experimental metal band Dir En Grey defeated the legendary Death to capture the gold medal.

The memory of Chuck Schuldiner and the music of Death live on through those who have embraced the music of the death metal pioneers. Despite being the only inactive band featured in the Extreme Metal Olympics, the legendary group walked away with a silver medal.

Cannibal Corpse are brutality incarnate, and with the help of their legions of fans, the brutal death metal giants brought one of two medals home to the USA by defeating Children of Bodom in the Bronze Medal Match.