2011 Battle of the Bands

The Opposables, a four-piece rock band from Catalina Foothills and University high schools, won the eighth annual Arizona Daily Star Battle of the Bands on Friday night at the Rialto Theatre.

The group, the only band in the finals to have been in the contest before, was the pick of both the contest's judges and a crowd text poll.

There was a tie for second place between Manic After Hours, a ska-influenced rock band from Catalina High School, and Dark Aeturnis, a black-metal/melodic-death-metal band with members from Flowing Wells, Santa Rita and Sky Islands high schools.

There were also two solo acts - Alisha Peru of Cienega High School, and Tyler Scruggs of Tucson High School - and a four-piece hard-rock/metal band from Douglas, Wrest, in this year's finals. Listen to them and all the other bands who entered below. Also, follow the link at the bottom of this page for full coverage of the 2011 Battle of the Bands.

• 29 Lines

• Alisha Peru

• BreakTheMoon

• Chimerical Caxi

• Complex Houses

• Cynosure

• Dark Aeturnis

• Exosense

• Manic After Hours

• Rite of Kin

• Savanah

• Six String Theory

• The Ellipses

• The Floor is Lava

• The Opposables

• The Reprisal

• Tyler Scruggs

• Unbreakable

• Wrest