The Tournament of Metal: Round 3, Bracket 5

The all-important third round is now upon us, as the top 94 songs battle it out, and this time, there's not a stinker among them. This week, we have 50 songs, with bands A-L competing; next week, we'll have 44 songs, with bands M-W duking it out. That'll give us--in three weeks--47 songs remaining, and then we'll add the five losing songs with the most votes from those two weeks' worth of battles, and we'll have a total of 52. We halve that the next week to 26, then we halve that, and we'll have the Top 13 Metal Songs of the Metal Era, 1980-1992 (a thirteen-year era).


The tournament will then take a week-long breather, as we spotlight two metal songs a day (and one on the last day), detailing why these songs are so important to not only the world of heavy metal, but to the world of popular music, the culture thereof, and the total impact of these songs upon society as a whole and us as individuals.


Make sure and check back every Sunday night, you headbangers, as we watch how the Tournament of Metal evolves and revolves, culminating in the winning song announced during the last week of July.


Now...on with the countdown....

This past week, the following metal acts left us:

• Saigon Kick
• Saxon
• Slayer
• TNT
• Tora Tora
• Trixter
• Vinnie Vincent Invasion
• W.A.S.P.
• XYZ
• Y&T
• Zebra

while the following headbangers soldier on, and we'll see them again in two more weeks:

• Queensryche
• Scorpions
• Skid Row
• Slaughter
• Steelheart
• Stryper
• Tesla
• Twisted Sister
• Van Halen
• Warrant
• White Lion
• Whitesnake

Anyway, exact results of this past week's intra-band battles:

3 Queensryche’s “Eyes of a Stranger” v. Y&T’s “Summertime Girls” 1
1 Saigon Kick’s “Love Is on the Way” v. Styper’s “To Hell with the Devil” 2
0 Saxon’s “Denim & Leather” v. Van Halen’s “Everybody Wants Some” 5
5 Scorpions’ “Rock You Like a Hurricane" v. Tora Tora’s “Phantom Rider” 0
4 Scorpion’s “Wind of Change” v. Winger’s “Miles Away” 1
5 Skid Row’s “I Remember You” v. Zebra’s “Tell Me What You Want” 0
3 Skid Row’s “18 and Life” v. Winger’s “Headed for a Heartbreak” 1
4 Skid Row’s “Youth Gone Wild” v. W.A.S.P.’s “Wild Child” 0
4 Slaughter’s “Fly to the Angels” v. Slayer’s “Angel of Death” 1
3 Steelheart’s “I’ll Never Let You Go” v. Van Halen’s “Unchained” 1
3 Tesla’s “Signs” v. Whitesnake’s “Still of the Night” 3 *
3 Tesla’s “Little Suzi” v. Vixen’s “Edge of a Broken Heart” 2
3 Tesla’s “Love Song” v. Van Halen’s “When It’s Love” 2
1 TNT’s “10,000 Lovers (in One)” v. Van Halen’s “Panama” 3
1 Trixter’s “Give It to Me Good v. Van Halen’s “Jump” 3
4 Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” v. Van Halen’s “(Oh) Pretty Woman” 1
2 Twisted Sister’s “I Wanna Rock” v. Warrant’s “Cherry Pie” 3
2 Van Halen ‘s “Feels So Good” v. Warrant’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 3
4 Van Halen’s “Hot for Teacher” v. Vinnie Vincent Invasion’s “Boys Are Gonna Rock” 0
3 Warrant’s “Heaven” v. Whitesnake’s “Is This Love” 1
5 Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” v. XYZ’s “Inside Out” 0
5 White Lion’s “Wait” v. White Lion’s “When the Children Cry” 0

*Whitesnake's "Still of the Night" wins this tiebreaker based on the fact that my son liked that title better than he did "Signs."