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. Beginning the competition in Group 4, Dir En Grey were the only band representing Japan in the Extreme Metal Olympics, and were definite underdogs since
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Dir En Grey Capture Gold Medal in Extreme Metal Olympics
August 14th, 2012 
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No Comments »Extreme Metal Olympics: Group 4, Opening Round
July 26th, 2012 Metalkult In the fourth and final group of the Extreme Metal Olympics’ Opening Round, we’ve got another batch of eclectic mixes. Hailing from countries such as Canada, Austria, Japan and Belgium, these eight bands are among the 32 acts vying for the gold in Loudwire’s Extreme Metal Olympics. Swedish metal masters Opeth are defending their territory against Belgium’s bigest death metal band, Aborted. Austria is represented in these Olympics by the
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