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. 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 throughout its whole running time. Megadeth didn't even do this in their commercial era.

The Beatles. I wonder why they are so often debated as the best? Why are they so famous? Are they overrated? They must be really great since this has been such a long debate. Every time a new band comes along, they are always compared to The Beatles. Why? Because everyone is trying to dethrone them.

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.

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

Though close, I feel that the Nirvana Unplugged album is what really sets Nirvana on top of the rock genre. In the same vein as The Beatles, with Nirvana you see an evolution. Nirvana began as mostly screaming nonsense with the only real point being to make good music, as all the band members 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 doesn't go farther than that, really. It just doesn't have as much of an emotional impact, especially if you watch the unplugged performance from Nirvana.

This is a hard question, but Freddie Mercury is the best vocalist and Jimmy Page is the best guitarist. John Bonham is the best drummer and John Deacon is the best bassist. I think it's a tie because they are both good bands with good members.

Led Zeppelin was more critically and commercially successful. They had better albums. A Night at the Opera is the only Queen album people consider great, and even then you don't see it considered one of the best albums of all time. On the other hand, Led Zeppelin had six amazing albums.

Zeppelin was more influential. They were better live. Queen had a lot of energy and were great entertainers, but Led Zeppelin would jam. Led Zeppelin bootlegs are more in demand than Queen ones. Page >. May, Bonham >. The Queen drummer (I forget his name), JPJ >. Deacon, Plant is about equal to Mercury.

Led Zeppelin basically defined hard rock and were hugely versatile. Queen was also quite versatile, but they generally kept the pop song structure while interpreting it in many different ways with a lot of creative arrangements (much like The Beatles). Led Zeppelin varied their instrumentation and sound a lot but not nearly as much as Queen, but they had a larger variety of song structures in my opinion (blues, ballads, folksy stuff, etc.).

Led Zeppelin occasionally stole stuff, but they didn't always steal hugely important stuff (like they stole some lyrics on Whole Lotta Love, but who cares, the song's not about the lyrics). Their stealing a song doesn't make their song any worse. In my opinion, Zeppelin just produced better music than Queen.

Sure, Nirvana was more influential, but Alice in Chains is one of the most amazing bands of all time. Nirvana did pretty basic stuff, whereas 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.

Who would ask such an obvious question? Nirvana because they rock harder than Alice in Chains.

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, and When the Wild Wind Blows. 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 name 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, and some lyrics based on sci-fi novels or historical events. Some of Judas Priest's lyrical masterpieces include a song about a male genital so huge it doesn't fit into a mouth and forcing someone to have oral sex. I know Judas Priest has some decent lyrics and Iron Maiden has weaker ones, but you see the point.

Iron Maiden knows how to arrange a tracklist and often keeps the best song for last. Judas Priest adds bonus tracks from other album sessions that sound completely out of place and often close with weak songs.

System of a Down because 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. Let's not forget Serj's clean vocals, which are also better than Corey's clean vocals.

I also prefer the overall music of System of a Down to that of Slipknot.

System of a Down? Haha...

Slipknot is kickass. Slipknot's first two albums are KILLER!

Slipknot 4 Life! Maggot till I die. M/
Stay (Sic) fellow maggots!

Slipknot is the best. Stay sic, fellow maggots!

Van Halen. Aerosmith has got to be one of the most annoying rock bands I've ever listened to.

This is so obvious. Queen because they have the best singers. Freddie Mercury is the best vocalist and Brian May is the best guitarist. So I vote Queen by a mile.

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.

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 wins for bass no matter what, and Roger is going to smash Roger!

Green Day! No hate on Nickelback though.

Pink Floyd, unless you've never been high.

Pink Floyd are awesome! And so are Rush!

Both are good, but I prefer Pink Floyd.

People don't seriously have to think about this, do they? The Beatles, any day of the year.

Pearl Jam. Nirvana is so overrated!

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 by a little.

I would've chosen Three Days Grace if Adam had 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.

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

Breaking Benjamin, but Three Days Grace is great too.

Black Sabbath because they rock harder, and Ozzy Osbourne has the best voice for metal music.

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

Peppers win easily. Nirvana doesn't have enough music or diversity to win. I like both, but the Peppers bring way more to the table.

Red Hot Chili Peppers were bad for their first couple of albums, then got dope. Nirvana was always good. I say Nirvana, but who knows who would have really been better.

Red Hot Chili Peppers, but my decision might have more to do with quantity than quality.

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.

Deep Purple - better musicianship, better live.

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

Uh, that's an interesting one. Two of my favorite classic rock bands. I'd probably pick The Who because of Tommy and Who's Next, but Led Zeppelin is also a powerhouse.

Their music is incredibly similar. Moon vs. Bonham, Roger vs. Robert. That'd be amazing.