Welcome to the Quarter Finals of Loudwire’s Extreme Metal Olympics! We’ve had an insane week so far, with some of the heaviest, most influential and innovative bands within the realm of brutality battling for the gold. Beginning with 32 bands representing their homelands, we’re now down to eight. In Group 1 of the Extreme Metal Olympics, six of the original eight bands have now been eliminated, with only two left
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Extreme Metal Olympics: Group 1, Quarter Finals
August 3rd, 2012 
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August 3rd, 2012 Metalkult Group 3 of the Extreme Metal Olympics features an incredibly diverse group of bands from countries such as Sweden, Australia, Poland, France + more. In the Quarter Finals of the Extreme Metal Olympics, we’ve got the sole Finnish entry facing one of the Sweden’s most extreme bands. Children of Bodom continue their trek for Finland in the Extreme Metal Olympics, narrowly beating out French metallers Gojira in the closest match
Posted in News Tags: australia, entry-facing, extreme-metal, finland, finnish, france, most-extreme, olympics, poland, quarter-, quarter-finals, sole, the-closest, trek No Comments »Extreme Metal Olympics: Group 2, Round Two
July 31st, 2012 Metalkult Group two in the Extreme Metal Olympics contains some of the most purely brutal bands from around the globe. The winners from the Opening Round will now compete in some of the most diverse battles offered in the Extreme Metal Olympic groups. Brazilian thrash legends Sepultura defeated India’s Demonic Resurrection in the Opening Round, bringing the brutal Brazilians into Round Two. They will now face Norway’s Immortal, who beat German technical
Posted in News Tags: bands-from, brazilians, brutal, contains-some, extreme, india, most, norway, olympics, opening, sepultura, thrash-legends, will-now No Comments »Extreme Metal Olympics: Group 4, Round Two
July 31st, 2012 Metalkult Here’s Group 4 of the Extreme Metal Olympics, and four bands have managed to make it to Round Two of our feature. Keep voting for your favorite bands who continue to compete in the Extreme Metal Olympics. Swedish progressive legends Opeth defeated the Belgian death metal band Aborted, moving on to compete against Japanese eclectic metal act Dir En Grey. In an incredibly close battle, Dir En Grey just managed
Posted in News Tags: bands, bands-have, compete-against, death metal, defeated-the, feature, olympics, our-feature-, voting-for No Comments »Daily Reload: Lamb of God, Tool + More
July 27th, 2012 Metalkult In today’s Daily Reload, Lamb of God are forced to cancel their North American summer tour with Dethklok and Gojira due to Randy Blythe’s incarceration; Tool drummer Danny Carey gives an update on upcoming album; and we give you the opening round of Loudwire’s Extreme Metal Olympics! Also, Metallica will start to focus on their new record in September; Down offer stream of new song ‘Witchtripper’; Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington
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July 26th, 2012 Metalkult Group 3 in our Extreme Metal Olympics showcases more heavier-than-hell bands from around the world. During the course of the London Olympics Games, 32 metal bands will be representing their homelands in Loudwire’s Extreme Metal Olympics — competing in a series of battles to bring home the gold. Representing the country of Finland is one of metal’s biggest bands. Children of Bodom represent the success that melodic death metal can
Posted in News Tags: biggest-bands-, country, extreme, extreme-metal, homelands, london-olympics, metal-bands, olympics, represent-the, showcases-more, success, the-country, world No Comments »Extreme Metal Olympics: Group 2, Opening Round
July 26th, 2012 Metalkult Group 2 in the Opening Round of the Extreme Metal Olympics contains eight of metal’s most purely brutal bands that fall under the genres of death metal, black metal, thrash and extreme metal. They are among the 32 bands competing to move to the next round of the Extreme Metal Olympics. Starting off, we’ve got Brazilian thrash legends Sepultura fighting against Demonic Resurrection from India. Immortal are one of Norway’s
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