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The clash of the bands is over. What started with 32 bands ended with 2 bands in the final. And two for the third place. It wasn't an very exciting final. One band just got crushed by the other.

The battle about the third place was actually more interesting. They started getting points on the same speed. But at the end there was an interesting sprint to see from one band.

Thanks anyone for voting. And here is the outcome:

On the fourth place with 6 points (in this round) is the following band:



On the third place with 9 points:



On the second place with 4 points:



On the first place and thus the winner of my first clash of the bands with an idiotic high victory of 11 points:

Results of the last round can be found here

Okay the fifth and last round of the clash of the bands. 2 bands left. The knock out continues. Some simple instructions for any newcomer.

You got 2 bands. Lets say Iron Maiden and Nightwish. The one you want to win gets one point. So it goes like this.
Iron Maiden - Nightwish 1-0 or 0-1. I will count up the score to see who has won.

Vote for the finals. If you fail to vote one of the quarter finals not one score will be counted, because it will disrupt the score that way.

11 reactions will be counted, this way there will be no tie in the game.
Okay the list of semi finals.

I also put up a battle between Queen and Slayer for the third place. Just for fun ;)

Final
Iron Maiden - Metallica

Third place
Slayer - Queen

Results of the last round can be found here.

Okay the 4th round of the clash of the bands. 4 bands left. The knock out continues. Some simple instructions for any newcomer.

You got 2 bands. Lets say Iron Maiden and Nightwish. The one you want to win gets one point. So it goes like this.
Iron Maiden - Nightwish 1-0 or 0-1. I will count up the score to see who has won.

Vote for all semi finals. If you fail to vote one of the quarter finals not one score will be counted, because it will disrupt the score that way.

11 reactions will be counted, this way there will be no tie in the game.
Okay the list of semi finals.

Iron Maiden- Slayer
Queen - Metallica

Results of the last match can be found here The results are at the end of the page.

Okay the third round of the clash of the bands. 8 bands left. The knock out continues. Some simple instructions for any newcomer.

You got 2 bands. Lets say Iron Maiden and Nightwish. The one you want to win gets one point. So it goes like this.
Iron Maiden - Nightwish 1-0 or 0-1. I will count up the score to see who has won.

Vote for all quarter finals. If you fail to vote one of the quarter finals not one score will be counted, because it will disrupt the score that way.

11 reactions will be counted, this way there will be no tie in the game.
Okay the list of Quarter finals.

Quarter Finals:
Iron Maiden - Judas Priest
Nightwish - Queen
Slayer - Sonata Arctica
Rhapsody - Metallica

Okay the second round of the clash of the bands. 16 bands left. The knock out fase has come. Okay some simple instructions.

You got 2 bands. Lets say Iron Maiden and Nightwish. The one you want to win gets one point. So it goes like this.
Iron Maiden - Nightwish 1-0 or 0-1. I will count up the score to see who has won.

11 reactions will be counted, this way there will be no tie in the game.
Okay the list of 1/8th finals

If you want to play even more clash of the bands feel free to take a look at this other clash of the bands.Clash of the bands 2 (other last fm listener)


1 1/8th final Iron Maiden - Golden Earring
2 1/8th final Nightwish - The Police
3 1/8th final Slayer - Lacuna Coil
4 1/8th final Rhapsody - Dream Evil
5 1/8th final Judas Priest - Sting
6 1/8th final Queen - Helloween
7 1/8th final Stratovarius - Sonata Arctica
8 1/8th final Bruce Dickinson - Metallica

Hereby the clash of the bands round 1 results. 1/8 finals will be posted later this evening. Anyway the results:

Group A
Group A was pretty clear. Iron Maiden was the most popular of the 2 giant bands. Tiamat got some points but far from enough.

Iron Maiden 24
Metallica 10
Tiamat 6
Blutengel


Group B Group of death :P
This was really the hardest group of them all. Everyone was really divided. But in the end Nightwish and Sonata Arctica proved to be the best bands.
Nightwish 12
Sonata Arctica 11
Epica 10
Altaria 7


Group C
Well this groups was mainly about who was going to be the number two. The self proclaimed gods of the founders of power metal. It were the founders of power metal who came in second.
Slayer 17
Helloween 11
Manowar 9
Korpiklaani 3

Group D
Also an interesting battle, Rhapsody came in first and then the end battle was one between a black death metal band and pop singer Sting. Sting won, but just barely.
Rhapsody 14
Sting 13
Behemoth 11
Jeremy Soule 2

Group E
Judas priest became the unchallenged number one. The band which was best in scoring seconds was Dream Evil.
Judas Priest 25
Dream Evil 9
Creedence Clearwater Revival 6
Guus Meeuwis

Group F
The rise of Faun with the last reactions couldn't stop from Lacuna Coil from becoming second. An interesting group. Queen number 1 place was one of the thing which was certain.
Queen 26
Lacuna Coil 7
Faun 6
Freedom Call 1

Group G
Stratovarius 18
The Police 16
Mannenkoor Karrespoor 3
Charon 3
Interesting to see who became number one, The Police or Stratovarius, nothing more.

Group H
Bruce Dickinson 19
Golden Earring 8
The 69 Eyes 7
Mark Griskey 1
Interesting group, some players didn't want to post the score for this group and some only partially. Bruce Dickinson became the winner and the oldies from The Golden Earring barely survived the encounter with the Helsinki Vampires.

The vote for this round has been ended. Feel free to go to round two (my other journal) and post the votes for the 1/8th final. If you want to play even more clash of the bands feel free to take a look at this other clash of the bands.Clash of the bands 2 (other last fm listener)


Okay the olympics are comming up. So I thought Its time for a clash of the (my) bands. I divided my top 32 in 8 groups. Each group consisting out of 4 bands. You need to give 2 bands from each group 3 or 1 point(s). The 2 bands in each group with the highest score go to next round. Only the first ten reactions will be counted.

Possible outcome (done by my little brother :P)
1 The Police
2 Iron Maiden
3 Creedence Clearwater Revival
4 Jeremy Soule

Group A
Iron Maiden
Tiamat
Blutengel
Metallica

Group B Group of death :P
Sonata Arctica
Nightwish
Altaria
Epica

Group C
Slayer
Korpiklaani
Helloween
Manowar

Group D
Jeremy Soule
Rhapsody
Sting
Behemoth

Group E
Guus Meeuwis
Judas Priest
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Dream Evil

Group F
Lacuna Coil
Queen
Freedom Call
Faun

Group G
Stratovarius
The Police
Mannenkoor Karrespoor
Charon

Group H
The 69 Eyes
Golden Earring
Mark Griskey
Bruce Dickinson

Okay last year when I did the same thing, nobody read it, so im going to make this one a lot shorter.

This year I listened to 21.000 songs, which is 7000 more than the first year.

Looking at last year records:
My nr 1 Iron Maiden is responsible for about 5% of the last year listened songs. Iron Maiden was 1019 times.

Last year top ten:
1. Iron Maiden 1,019
2. Sonata Arctica 579
3. Jeremy Soule 565
4. Slayer 500
5. Guus Meeuwis 366
6. Tiamat 355
7. Stratovarius 331
8. The 69 Eyes 329
9. Lacuna Coil 318
10. Rhapsody 300

Difference with first year top ten:
Out: Queen and Korpiklaani
New: Guus Meeuwis and Tiamat

This year a total of 4 journals and 299 post

Top 5 albums:
1. Tiamat – Deeper Kind of Slumber 218
2. Blutengel – Seelenschmerz 180
3. Altaria – Divinity 132
4. Altaria – Invitation 128
5. Behemoth – Demigod 116

Most listened song top 5:
1. Blutengel – Soul of Ice 88
2. Mark Griskey – Jedi Theme (Enclave Restored) 87
3. Jeremy Soule – Nerevar Rising 85
4. Jeremy Soule – kotor intro 84
5. After Forever – Energize Me 75

Difference with last year:
Out:
Stratovarius – Forever 68 plays
Charon – Guilt on Skin 65 plays
Judas Priest – Painkiller 61 plays

New:
Blutengel – Soul of Ice 88
Mark Griskey – Jedi Theme (Enclave Restored)
After Forever – Energize Me

Jeremy Soule songs are 2 places lower than last year.

Thats it, see you next year ;)