Maiden Rips Up Mariskalrock.com Awards

Posted by Shadow on January 11, 2005 @ 16:33

At MariskalRock.com's and the Heavy Rock and Kerrang Spain magazines yearly readers poll of 2004, Iron Maiden managed to score quite impressively, despite having no album or tour during the year (excepting the brief North - and South America/Japan tour in January/February). Here are the categories featuring Maiden:

Best band:

1. Iron Maiden 2. Metallica 3. Nightwish 4. Rammstein 5. Slipknot

Best male singer:

1. Bruce Dickinson 2. Ronnie James Dio 3. James Hetfield 4. Rob Halford 5. David Coverdale

Best guitarist:

  1. Angus Young (Ac/Dc)
  2. Kirk Hammet (Metallica)
  3. Slash (Velvet Revolver)
  4. Steve Vai 5. Dave Murray (Iron Maiden)

Best bassist:

1. Steve Harris (Iron Maiden) 2. Rob Trujillo (Metallica) 3. Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead) 4. Gene Simmons (Kiss) 5. Marco Mendonza (Whitesnake)

Best drummer:

  1. Lars Ulrich (Metallica) 2. Nicko Mcbrain (Iron Maiden)
  2. Mike Terrana (Rage)
  3. Joey Jordison (Slipknot)
  4. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)

Best live performance (thanks to bnwim for the translation):

  1. Metallica
  2. Rammstein 3. Iron Maiden
  3. Dio
  4. Europe

Best website:

1. Iron Maiden 2. Marilyn Manson 3. Metallica 4. Slipknot 5. Megadeth

You can see the full results here

Sources: MaidenZone.com, MariskalRock.com

8 Comments

Anonymous said:

> Direct (*note: translation error?*)

Live / Best Live Performance

#9648, January 11, 2005 @ 16:45

Maiden Maniac said:

Metallica won the best live award !!!!?????? I love their stuff , but live they suck these days !! or at least 3 out of 4 shows, lars wants to play TOO fast, and hetfield tries to sing as rob halford..........

#9649, January 11, 2005 @ 17:36

Real World said:

Wheres the best fansite award

#9650, January 11, 2005 @ 18:42

Anonymous said:

> Wheres the best fansite award

Best there isn't one. MaidenFans would have been humiliated by *Homey's 1337 Madien Web Siet - Not 4 n00bs That sUxx0rZ*.

#9651, January 11, 2005 @ 19:24

Eddie's Lil Helper said:

since when Kirk Hammet is considered best guitar player?

He is average , and you will find tons like him in streets of Sweden.

#9652, January 11, 2005 @ 21:11

Anonymous said:

I bet that Metallica got best live act was because at Download, when Slayer's and Slipknot's drummer replaced there's for the time.

#9653, January 11, 2005 @ 22:51

The_7th_Son said:

May i express my outrage at these...

Best guitarist:

1. Angus Young (Ac/Dc)
2. Kirk Hammet (Metallica) (*laughs*)
3. Slash (Velvet Revolver)
4. Steve Vai
**5. Dave Murray (Iron Maiden)**

Best drummer:

1. Lars Ulrich (Metallica) (HAHA, or not)
**2. Nicko Mcbrain (Iron Maiden)**
3. Mike Terrana (Rage)
4. Joey Jordison (Slipknot)
5. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)

Best live performance (thanks to bnwim for the translation):

1. Metallica (ummm or not)
2. Rammstein (ummm or not again)
**3. Iron Maiden** (should be first)
4. Dio
5. Europe

#9654, January 12, 2005 @ 15:55

Anonymous said:

I would say we can be very very happy with these results. Those catgories should rathe get called "most famous" than "best". Because most people, including me, write down their faves and not the ones one thinks are the best technically etc..

So we should stop that bitching that Kirk isn't good enough. It just means that he is more famous than Dave. But does that matter to us?

Actually not, and besides I like Kirk Hammet and enjoyed the Metallica Live-Shows a lot.

#9655, January 12, 2005 @ 21:17