Battle Of The Bands 2007 - Round 1 - Bracket A, Part 2

Bracket A

#2 Tool 3 - #63 Nellie McKay 0 - The best metal act in the game shuts out one of the best and least known artists of indie music.

#31 Metallica 2 - #32 O.A.R. 1 - Even in their weakened, sucky state Metallica is still more than enough to knock down the band no one outside of college campuses cares about.

#50 Todd Snider 2 - #15 OK Go 1 - A tremendous upset all things considered, but the real question should be: "How the hell did Todd Snider end up a 50 seed?".

#18 Rancid 3 - #47 Fuel 0 - Rancid wins the battle of the artists who have been spending way too much time in the "recording studio".

#7 Eagles Of Death Metal 3 - #58 The Futureheads 0 - Eagles murder the Futureheads. The murder weapon? Sexy, of course.

#26 Bloc Party 3 - #39 Coheed And Cambria 0 - At least it's possible to figure out what the fuck Bloc Party songs are about.

#10 Big Timber 3 - #55 Everclear 0 - Sure, Everclear should hang it up, but I doubt that more than 1% of the music listening population even knows who Big Timber is. They should, though.

#23 Cake 3 - #42 Alanis Morissette 0 - Alanis fatigue gives a sweep to the average output of Cake.

#3 The Foo Fighters 3 - #62 The Vines 0 - You want to win in this tournament, you'd better have more than 1 good song per album.

#35 The Ataris 2 - #30 Megadeth 1 - Sure it's an upset, but really, anyone knocking off Megadeth can hardly be considered a surprise.

#14 Weezer 3 - #51 Gavin DeGraw 0 - Weezer's seen better days, but they're still much better than the radio friendly but timid DeGraw.

#19 Belle And Sebastian 3 - #46 Cold 0 - Anyone remember Cold? Anyone?

#6 U2 3 - #59 Three Doors Down 0 - Seen better days but still good trumps never had any good days any time.

#27 Buckcherry 2 - #38 Avenged Sevenfold 1 - Although the match-up nearly killed Ryan, he managed to vote for Avenged Sevenfold, to no avail as Guns N Roses clone #1 defeated Guns N Roses clone #2.

#11 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 3 - #54 Better Than Ezra 0 - BRMC may be right on the verge of their big breakthrough with a new album coming out soon, while Better Than Ezra is the definition of a band that's running on fumes.

#22 Bad Religion 3 - #43 Collective Soul 0 - Had this happened 10 years ago, Collective Soul might have won. These days? Not so much.

COMING SOON: Round 1 - Bracket B, Part 1