Rock artists reach elite eight in spooky album cover bracket

An annual Halloween bracket to determine the spookiest rock album covers has reached the “elite eight” stage. After two rounds of voting, eight artists remain in the competition: Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Dio, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Meat Loaf, Ozzy Osbourne, and Uriah Heep.

Recent round two results include Meat Loaf’s ‘Bat Out of Hell’ defeating Judas Priest’s ‘Painkiller’ 59% to 41%, and Iron Maiden’s ‘Killers’ defeating Kiss’s ‘Creatures of the Night’ 85% to 15%. Other winners advancing to the next stage include Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, and Black Sabbath.

Voting for the third round is open until 11:59 PM EST on Friday, Oct. 23. The winners will advance to the final four, which is scheduled to go live on Saturday morning, Oct. 24.