{"id":312852,"date":"2025-10-18T07:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/312852\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:38:19","slug":"ozzy-sabbath-maiden-metallica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/312852\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy, Sabbath, Maiden + Metallica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Halloween<\/a> quest to determine the spookiest song in rock history has advanced into its third week.<\/p>\n

After our round two “Evil Eight” battles<\/a>,\u00a0we’re down to the “Frightful Four.” Only the most fiendish duo can move onto the finals.<\/p>\n

You can vote once an hour in the two brackets posted below.<\/p>\n

Round three voting ends on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 11:59PM EST, with the finals launching the next morning. The spookiest rock song of all time will be crowned on Halloween.<\/p>\n

Iron Maiden<\/a>‘s “The Number of the Beast” reached the semifinals by beating out another devilish song, the Rolling Stones<\/a>‘ “Sympathy for the Devil” in week one by a margin of 54% to 46%. “Beast” then went on to defeat\u00a0Alice Cooper<\/a>‘s “Black Widow” 64% to 36%.<\/p>\n

Maiden now go up against the mighty Metallica<\/a> and “Enter Sandman,” which put an end to the Doors<\/a>‘ “The End,” 55% to 45%, then silenced Kiss<\/a>‘ “God of Thunder” 61% to 39%<\/p>\n

Ready to see a case of remarkably stupid bracket planning? After ousting Blue Oyster Cult’<\/a>s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” (58% to 42%) and\u00a0Motley Crue<\/a>‘s “Shout at the Devil” 79% to 21%,\u00a0Black Sabbath<\/a>‘s “Black Sabbath” lines up against Ozzy Osbourne’<\/a>s “Bark at the Moon,” which has already bested\u00a0Led Zeppelin<\/a>‘s “Gallows Pole” (73% to 27%) and AC\/DC’s “Night Prowler” (65% to 35%).<\/p>\n

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Black Sabbath Live Albums Ranked Worst to Best<\/p>\n

Together, they paint a portrait of a band that lived hard, worked hard and played hard.<\/p>\n

Gallery Credit: Bryan Rolli<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Halloween quest to determine the spookiest song in rock history has advanced into its third week. After…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":312853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,17810,975,982,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-312852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-halloween","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-original-features","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115394032595309498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}