FALLUJAH – “Dreamless”

Vs.

RIVERS OF NIHIL – “Where Owls Know My Name”

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – “Colors” (ADVANCES)

CYNIC – “Traced in Air”

BTBAM take this one, 6-3.

GOJIRA – “The Way of All Flesh” (ADVANCES)

Vs.

THE CONTORTIONIST – “Exoplanet”

GOJIRA proceed, with a 7-2 victory.

PERSEFONE – “Aathma”

Vs.

NE OBLIVISCARIS – “Citadel” (ADVANCES)

NE OBLIVISCARIS wins, 6-3

IHSAHN – “After”

Vs.

OPETH – “Blackwater Park” (ADVANCES)

Bleak outlook for IHSAHN after stranded in nearly barren lands with only 2 votes. It will be a bitter harvest. The drapery falls on IHSAHN this round. I guess we’ll have to paint the funeral portrait for IHSAHN. OPETH put an austere beat down on IHSAHN, sending them to heaven’s black sea, which one can only assume is located on the shores of frozen lakes on Mars…a sort of black water park, if you will. P.S. patterns in the ivy II.

KATATONIA – “The Great Cold Distance” (ADVANCES)

Vs.

TOOL – “Lateralus”

KATATONIA Kata-pwn-ias TOOL 6-1.

HAKEN – “Virus”

Vs.

DEVIN TOWNSEND – “Ziltoid the OMNISCIENT” (ADVANCES)

Ziltoid, he comes…to round 3, with a 5-3 victory.

BLACK CROWN INITIATE – “The Wreckage of Stars” (ADVANCES)

Vs.

BEYOND CREATION – “Earthborn Evolution”

BCI leave BC seeing stars with a 5-3 victory.

CYNIC – “Traced in Air” (ADVANCES)

Vs.

EXTOL – “The Blueprint Dives”

CYNIC stretch ahead for the win, 5-3