Key Takeaways

• Voting is open for the second round of the Halloween bracket.
• Major bands like Guns N’ Roses and Metallica were eliminated in the first round.
• Participants can vote once per hour until the deadline.
• The winners will advance to the third round starting on October 19.

Only 16 of rock’s spookiest album covers remain after one round of our annual Halloween bracket.

Some big names got taken out in the first round, as Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd all got outvoted.

Who will fall and rise this time? That’s up to you. You can vote once per hour in each of the eight second round matchups below, from now until 11:59 PM ET on Sunday, Oct. 18.

The winners will move on to the third round, which will be launched on Monday, Oct. 19.

Round One Results:

• Black Sabbath Black Sabbath defeated Frank Zappa Thing-Fish 91% to 9%
• AC/DC If You Want Blood… defeated Tom Waits Bone Machine 61% to 39%
• The Beatles Yesterday and Today defeated Van Halen Balance 62% to 38%
• Uriah Heep …Very ‘Eavy… Very ‘Umble beat David Bowie‘s Diamond Dogs 61% to 39%
• Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica beat Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here 50.25% to 49.75%
• Alice Cooper Raise Your Fist and Yell beat Scorpions Blackout 51% to 49%
• The Rolling Stones‘ Goats Head Soup defeated The Cure’s The Head on the Door 86% to 14%
• Dio’s <emHoly Diver defeated Queen’s <emNews of the World 72% to 28%
• <bOzzy Osbourne's Bark at the Moon defeated Peter Gabriel’s Peter Gabriel 80% to 20%
• <bFunkadelic's Maggot Brain defeatedMetallica’s Metal Up Your Ass 65 % to35 %
• The Mothers of Invention Weasels Ripped My Flesh defeatedGuns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction 52 % to48 %
• Megadeth Countdown to Extinction defeatedthe Doors’ Strange Days 75 % to25 %
• Iron Maiden Killers defeatedKing Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King 72 % to28 %
• Kiss’s Creatures of the Night defeatedLed Zeppelin’s Presence 67 % to33 %
• Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell defeatedJane’s Addiction’s Ritual de lo Habitual 72 % to28 %
• Judas Priest’s Painkiller defeatedDebbie Harry’s KooKoo 67 % to33 %