Alright fuck it, time to put one of you out of your misery, it has to be done.
So here we have two progmetal giants battling against an emo/alt rock song. Needless to say, I'm more familiar with the former, but I consider some Brand New material to be emo and really good at the same time too. So I'm gonna break these all down 1 by 1:
lonestar, the length worried me. As I said I'm familiar with the Eidos opener "The Moth", it's catchy with a very intense chorus, versatile but at the same time very concise and easy to digest. The main riff in this reminded me a lot of Prophets of War, curious if that's a common though cause it really does sound similar. And I guess I'm one of the few who really likes Prophets of War so that's a good thing.
The only thing I thought was a bit grating at the start was that piano passage but it's grown on me. I can't stress how much I dig emotional vocals and these definitely make the cut in that regard. It did not nearly have as much going on as the other prog giant this round though, that song was all over the place and this one in comparison was pretty tame.
Tomislav, the only time I ever heard of this band was in a Southpark band where they were discarded by the goth kids as 'that band all the emo kids listen to', no other preconceived notions here. It was a fair bit heavier than I expected but the vocals were more on the tame side compared to what I've come to expect from emo. The chorus never really clicked with me and apart from that nothing in this song really made up for that, since most was just 'solid' and nothing outstanding. In some rounds it would have perhaps made it through but this round was pure quality and therefore Seven kind of stuck out like a sore thumb to me.
TAC, let me clarify someone to everyone here. This is not a powermetal song, not even close.
The symphonic elements in the intro are okay but I'm glad they kept it on the down low because I'm not a huge fan of overly symphonic stuff in metal. The lead guitar in the intro frankly reminds me a lot of Queen and BTBAM, that kind of dark theatric sound. As I said in the previous paragraph, this song has a lot going on, it's all over the place, and whether that's a good thing or bad thing just depends on how everything stuck with me. Instrumentals overall were really good, I loved the constant tempo switches. Vocals weren't bad but not astoundingly good either. Bass, fucking sick. They have that signature Korn bass sound that I love, really low and chugging. Then there's that one riff that recurs and first shows up I think around 4:20. Near the end kind of threw me off with that really fast guitarbattle-like solo section, I don't like that overly shreddy stuff. They picked up the quality after that again though, no biggie. For the most part, top notch tune.
Only fucked with the order so the people that made it through would maybe misinterpret it and be in suspense for just a little bit longer. The person who is eliminated will probably have figured it out at this point though, the writeup made it pretty apparent.
Lonestar, I will probably never forgive you for kicking out The Lantern by Slice the Cake, but your song was unfortunately too damn good to get my revenge just yet.
Tomislav, this was sadly a miss, I enjoyed some parts of your song, but barely. It was a pretty big step down from all the others and that means the throne for Train roulette champion has been opened up.
TAC, your song ended up edging out LoCo's for #5, there never really was a chance of it being bottom 2 even. Next round is instrumental, so no need to worry about clean/harsh vocals at the moment.