{"id":6918,"date":"2026-04-05T03:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/04\/05\/march-madness-decades-of-destruction-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:29:51","slug":"march-madness-decades-of-destruction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/04\/05\/march-madness-decades-of-destruction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"March Madness, Decades of Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to vote in\u00a0Championship Round of Loudwire&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/march-madness-tournment-rock-metal-bands-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\">March Madness: Decades of Destruction tournament<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/1970s\/\" target=\"_blank\">1970s<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/2000s\/\" target=\"_blank\">2000s<\/a> have both fallen, making it a battle between the <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/1980s\/\" target=\"_blank\">1980s<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/1990s\/\" target=\"_blank\">1990s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Final Four, <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/metallica\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metallica<\/a> narrowly triumphed over <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/black-sabbath\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Sabbath<\/a> with a 52\/48 split of the votes. <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/pantera\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pantera<\/a>, meanwhile, delivered a knockout punch to <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/tags\/slipknot\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slipknot<\/a> and netted 69 percent of the votes. Will the &#8220;Cowboys From Hell&#8221; prove to be stronger than all in the end? Or will Metallica fans say that a Pantera championship is &#8220;The Thing That Should Not Be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/metallica-albums-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metallica Albums Ranked<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The polls are back open for the final time and your votes will\u00a0crown the winner of the Decades of Destruction tournament!<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0champion\u00a0will be announced on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>Vote below now through 11:59PM ET on April 6.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Vote In the March Madness: Decades of Destruction Championship<\/h3>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">metallica vs pantera tournament bracket<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Adrian Borromeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align:center\">Previous Matchups in Decade Divisions<\/h3>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">rock bracket tournament<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Adrian Borromeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">rock bracket tournament<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Adrian Borromeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">rock bracket tournament<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Adrian Borromeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"single-post-image \">\n<figure class=\"img-tag has-sizer alignnone\">\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">rock bracket tournament<\/span><\/p><figcaption>Adrian Borromeo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Below, look through metal history and the best metal album of each year since 1969!<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">The Best Metal Album of Each Year Since 1970<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>See Loudwire&#8217;s picks for the Best Metal Album of Each Year Since 1970.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/author\/loudwirestaff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loudwire Staff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=168&#038;gver=10&#038;bid=366&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DRRv3qtOHmtGBG8AXI2xRyXQoxt5kKsM0YQjZ&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/loudwire.com\/march-madness-championship-metallica-vs-pantera\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to vote in\u00a0Championship Round of Loudwire&#8217;s March Madness: Decades of Destruction tournament! The 1970s and\u00a02000s have both fallen, making it a battle between the 1980s and 1990s. In the Final Four, Metallica narrowly triumphed over Black Sabbath with a 52\/48 split of the votes. Pantera, meanwhile, delivered a knockout punch to Slipknot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}