Best Rock Band Face Offs

Megadeth. I used to prefer Metallica because of Dave Mustaine's vocals but after their first two albums, Metallica's music lost its dynamics and they relied on one riff, one verse and one chorus melody to compose their songs, there are no breaks, no unexpected moments. Sad but True is a prominent example: every single note has the same volume and tone, there are no speed changes, and the Taddaddadda tara rara rara riff is repeated through its whole running time. Megadeth didn't even do this in their commercial era.

Metallica. I've gotten more used to Megadeth as going back and looking at Megadeth, I've realize Dave Mustaine is not a bad singer and is overhated but nonetheless James is still a much better singer.
Also I think the musicians of Metallica are more talented than that of Megadeth.

This rivalary is a headache to a metallica or megadeth fan. I like them both but I like metallica better. I like kirks solos better but I think dave is a better guitarist. dave's solos just need to sound cleaner.

Hell yeah.. Both bands have got history..!
Both are awesome.. But anyway Metallica is better..
Both have kinda similar song too..!

Though close, I feel that The Nirvana Unplugged album is what really sets Nirvana on top of the rock genre. In the same vein of The Beatles, with Nirvana you see an evolution. Nirvana began as mostly screaming nonsense with the only real point to make good music, as all the bandmembers have said. By In Utero, and their final performances, Nirvana's music became an art, with stunning music and deep lyrics. Guns n Roses has a great range, but their music doensn't go farther than that really, it just doesn't have as much of an emotion impact, especially if you watch the unplugged performance from Nirvana.

Nirvana. Again, I've gotten more used to Guns N' Roses as I've stopped hating them once I listened to the song Civil War and their cover of Knocking On Heavens Door but Nirvana is still the better band easily.

Nirvana is probably better. They were a tad overrated but guns and roses was nothing particularly special or revolutionary, just sort of aerosmith + hair metal. I don't particularly love nirvana but they were quite significant.

Guns are better but are kind of underrated because no one brings up their evolution which is really obvious just compare appetite to the illusions albums. plus nirvana are massively overrated but unplugged is pretty good even though its unoriginal

Queen is 1000 times better Zeppelin stole half of their biggest hits and more Queen are the best live performers ever and Bohemian Rhapsody is the best song ever and Freddie the best vocalist in what way in Zep better?

Queen. Led Zeppelin feels a bit dated and Freddie Mercury could sing the phone book and still make a good song

I'd say Led Zeppelin, though those were simmilarly innovative bands in different areas of music. Queen is far more overrated though, so I'd go for the Zep.

Queen. The obvious choice. No one beats the outstanding vocals of the man mercury himself.

These matchups aren't even accurate! Led Zeppelin vs Pink Floyd (Led Zeppelin wins), The Who vs Jimi Hendrix (The Who wins) Van Halen vs Aerosmith (Van Halen wins), Nirvana vs Pearl Jam (both overrated who cares) Guns N' Roses vs Poison (Guns N' Roses is better but way overatted), Bon Jovi vs U2 (Tie? ), Matchbox Twenty vs Marron 5 (Matchbox in a close one), Queen vs AC/DC (too close to call), and of course the two best of all time The Rolling Stones vs. The Beatles (Stones roll over the Beatles)

To me that's pretty easy. Admittedly, I don't know The Stones too well, but what I know sounds really unimaginative and lazy to me for the most part. I'd pick The Beatles every day.

How is this not number 1. They were two of the greatest rock bands of all time (if not the two greatest rock bands.). They had a legendary rivalry

THE STONES! The Beatles have been done to death on this website. They've been overrated to the max and beyond.

Judas Priest stinks of greed. In the 1980s they made glam rock, in 1997, groove metal, a nu-metal song in 2001 and a symphonic metal album in 2008. Always what was popular at the time.

Judas Priest has a snoozefest 13-minute doom metal epic and apart from that, didn't even approach the territory of Steve Harris's epics like Hallowed Be Thy Name, Fear of the Dark, Dance of Death, When the Wild Wind Blows etc. Cathedral Spires could have been their best song but the last 3 minutes is a painful repeat.

Influence doesn't count when it comes to judging which band is better, even though Judas Priest is the older and more influential metal band. Iron Maiden was still very influential towards power metal and early Slayer to say two examples.

Iron Maiden wrote songs about a man who committed suicide because of being afraid of the apocalypse, the multitude of faith and science, some lyrics based on sci-fi novels or historical events. Some of Judas Priest's lyrical genius ...more

This a truly hard question for me. I am a MASSIVE fan of both amazing bands. Painkiller, The Number Of The Beast, Screaming for vengeance, Piece Of Mind and Firepower are the albums that I can not name a single song on them that isn't classic Priest/Maiden.

They both are equal on a lot of things; riffs, vocals, guitar work and sound production. But, after much debate, I have concluded on Maiden. I will always still love Priest though.

As my favourite band, I choose Maiden. Priest are also great.

Maiden is little better than Priest in my opinion.

System Of A Down because the Serj simply has a better voice than Corey. Yeah, Corey has a 5 octave range but a lot of his screaming feels forced while Serj's actually feels intense and let's not forget Serj's clean vocals which are also better than Corey's clean vocals as well.
I also prefer the overall music of System of a Down to that of Slipknot.

System of a Down's songs have to be some of the most unique sounds I've ever heard

System is good nu metal (somewhat of an oxymoron) slipknot is emo

System of a Down, Slipknot is too much focused on being heavy

Pink Floyd, I might go with Rush if not for the vocals

Pink Floyd are awesome! And so are Rush!

Both are good, but I prefer Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd is my number 1 band.

Deep Purple wins but I will always love AC/DC, too.

Both very popular bands. I say DP because AC/DC are quite overrated.

Deep Purple duh.

Deep Purple was most talented rock band ever (LORD, GILLAN, BLACKMORE, PAICE, Glover(smoke on the water)):PPP

Queen because Aerosmith is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to popular Classic Rock bands. Steven TyLer's vocals can be awful sometimes. Freddie Mercury, on the other hand, had great vocals.

HA HA HA! Queen would totally win. No Aerosmith song can match ANY Queen song! Are you crazy? Freddie's got the voice, Brian wins for guitar, Deacy SO wins for bass no matter what and Roger is going to SMASH Roger!

Queen v.s. Aerosmith, Aerosmiths good, but not Queen, Queen wrote so many great songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, Somebody to Love, We are the Champions, so Queen all the way

Steven vs Freddie, Joe vs Brian, Tom vs John and Joey vs Roger. I don't know who Brad would face but so what

Green Day wins because people like them

Green Day! No hate on Nickelback though.

Ill take blow my brains out for 400 alex

Ain't even a question, Green Day

Sure, Nirvana was more influential, but Alice in Chains is one of the most amazing bands of all time. Nirvana did pretty basic stuff, where as Alice in Chains was much more complicated and had more variety. So, Alice In Chains

I'm going to pick Alice in Chains, because while Nirvana revolutionized grunge rock, Alice in Chains perfected it.

Alice In Chains!

Alice by a long shot

Incomparable Rise Against is a Punk/Hardcore Band and Thirty Seconds to Mars is an Alternative Rock Band.
Thirty Seconds to Mars easily wins.

Winner is 30 Seconds To Mars. Just my a little.

Rise Against would win

and 30STM Takes the prize wins for sure :P

Great Bands. These bands produced amazing songs such as Breath, Give Me A Sign, and I Will Not Bow by Breaking Benjamin. Break, Never To Late, and I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace. The winner is... Breaking Benjamin

I would've chose Three Days Grace if Adam stayed. I have nothing against Matt, in fact, I actually think he's doing great with the band, but the only vocalist that can even come close to Ben Burnley in my opinion is Adam Gontier.

Breaking Benjamin, but Three Days Grace is great too.

Now I'd like to see this battle!

Hmm.. This is a tough one.

Deep Purple for pretty much the same reasons I prefer Megadeth over Metallica. Black Sabbath's riffs are repeated too much and the lack of variation makes it exhausting to listen to them (notable example: Electric Funeral).

Sabbath by a long shot. More inflential, better albums, better musicians, more original

Deep Purple - better musicianship, better live.

Black Sabbath by far!

Nickel back is all Airy Voice! A7X always wins this one. Though their early albums has to much screams. Listen to Nightmare, The Stage, Hail to The King, etc...

Avenged Sevenfold wins, they have a big variety and all sounds really good

Linkin Park, avenged made one actually good album. Both overrated though.

Linkin park is the band here in the philippines

Iron Maiden. I don’t like Ozzy’s voice.

Iron Maiden. Always. m/

That's hard... But IRON MAIDEN

IRON MAIDEN easily. OZZY IS HIGHLY OVERRATED.

You think Dio with Black Sabbath? Mabye in heaven in hell. But on Mob Rules what happend to his voice?! With Ozzy it was better... But Iron Maiden beats Black Sabbath. Iron Maiden never do bad. Live there still great 2016! Especially compared to Guns N' Roses. Axel rose drink and smoked out his voice. Plus he wont even let fans were a slash t shirt to his live concerts even though slash is there... he also shows up late most of the time. Not even loyal to his fans... bit back on track, Iron Maiden is the best!

Which Black Sabbath though?
Black Sabbath with Ozzy - easily, Iron Maiden wins.
Black Sabbath with Dio - a tough one. Tie?

I like Iron Maiden more
I respect Black Sabbath more

I like Black Sabbath more, but Maiden is up there

Pearl Jam. Nirvana is so overrated!

Pearl Jam is so much better.

Pearl Jam for me

personally I like NIRVANA better but o well

I find it really funny how my two favorite bands are on here, head to head.

They're tied, dammit.

Both of these bands are pretty terrible.

TIE!

Winner is Avenged Sevenfold

Dio, because he has a better singing voice and vocal range. Ozzy is good too, but his voice can get a lil grating at times.

Dios a better singer but sabbath was better with ozzy