In no order: Shark Attack Sick Or Sane Rum Is For Drinking Elevator To The Gallows First Breath, Last Breath Priest And The Matador The Fire Wolves At The Door War Paint Waves
Irish Eyes and Snake Eyes not getting the love during this thing makes me a bit sad. As both songs are faster paced and mix the poppy and heavy really well, I thought they'd be better received in their discography.
As far as I’m concerned Senses Fail is a new band and If there is a Light, It Will Find You is their debut and it’s really good!
Holy Mountain- 6 First Breath, Last Breath-8 Wolves At The Door- 3 Bite To Break Skin- 11 War Paint- 7(8) Bloody Romance- 7 The Fire- 8 The Priest And The Matador-6 This will be our final score and decide our final four!!! A great round with some close matches the whole time through except one match. I even had to tie break one. It’s time for the final four folks. Shits getting serious. —- First Breath, Last Breath Vs. Bite To Break Skin War Paint Vs. The Fire — Begin!
Excellent final four, and good tiebreaker. Bite to break skin. I adore the vocal melodies all over this record, especially in the verses, and when paired with that outro, first breath can’t keep up. War paint. Had to relisten to both. War paint gets the edge for being unrelenting throughout. The Fire is a worthy finalist but the chorus dips a bit too much to win this matchup. Wish more bands played with their bridges like War Paint does.
Bite To Break - I love First Breath, but Bite To Break Skin might be my ideal SF song War Paint - both songs are standouts on their releases, but War Paint has that it factor
First Breath, Last Breath - This was a very tough one for me! I just listened to both songs back-to-back twice and it's extremely close. On one hand, I've known Bite To Break Skin much longer and it's a staple of their catalog and live show. The last 40 or so seconds of the song are the highlight for me. On the other hand, First Breath, Last Breath is one of my favorite songs on the new album and it's one of the most personal songs that Buddy has written to date. It's really hard to compare 2004 Senses Fail with 2018 Senses Fail! I'll go with First Breath, Last Breath primarily due to the lyrics, but I won't be upset in the slightest if Bite To Break Skin wins. The Fire - This is possibly my favorite song in their catalog (see my post from yesterday!) so this one wasn't quite difficult as the first matchup. Having said that, War Paint is an absolutely fantastic song. Also, these two songs should be played live a lot more often!
This may be the first time in a bracket where the winner of the EP/Bside bracket is gonna make it to the championship or at least has a fighting chance
Hey everyone, I just want to take one second to shamelessly plug an upcoming bracket for Sum 41 that @broken22 and I are going to be co-running starting next Monday (3/12) in the Sum 41 band thread: Band - Sum 41 I hope you'll consider joining us :)