Update – February 29th 5:41pm:

It would appear that things have either gotten cordial or sarcastic with the feud, as the following exchange has taken place:

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Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke also had his say:

@ITheBreather @ilibmusic hey man Can't we all just breathe together in harmony there's enough air to go around I promise — RonnieRadke (@RonnieRadke) February 29, 2016

Original Story:

The frontmen of I, The Breather and It Lives, It Breathes have been fighting over what essentially amounts to a hashtag. That hashtag/name for their fans would be “#thebreathernation”, which both group’s have been referring to their fans as. I, The Breather frontman Shawn Spann appears to have begun the war of words with the following post:

“There is and will only be one #BreatherNation. I feel that a band out there needs to know that just because we are ending as a band, our movement and family will long live.”

It Lives, It Breathes vocalist Kevin Lacerda took to Facebook with the below video, in which he claims that they began using the hashtag 166 weeks ago, while I, The Breather began using the tag 83 weeks ago.

To: SHAWN SPANN of I, The Breather – The TRUE BREATHER NATION Posted by Kevin Lacerda on Sunday, February 28, 2016

“I was not going to even call you guys out as a band out of respect, but clearly you lack that. Let me set this straight because honestly I’m doing this last tour for our fans and only OUR fans. 1. The reason I said something, after two years of hearing the trash talk is because your beyond ignorant. 2. My band never started any drama in our 7 years of a band to gain attention. 3. We are breaking up so that I can be in my sons life. 4. A bit of advice, you won’t last with an ego like that. 5. I could care less about a hashtag. 6. When we started in 2009, hashtags/Instagram/Twitter didn’t exist. Myspace did. 7. When you spend years touring and gain a lasting fan base, you will understand. 8. Give me an opinion on relevance a few years from now Like I said, I never wanted to say a word about this but I’m so beyond tired of hearing your bands name with people telling me about the trash talk. Just drop it, please. P.S – Good luck in the future, I genuinely mean that.”

The pair then began to take the feud further, withreplying:

Lacerda offered:

“I’ve been grinding for 10 years and I’m still here Shawn, I don’t need any words of wisdom from you. We’ve never had anything bad to say about you till you just dropped this bullshit yourself. You spoke up when no one spoke out about you to begin with, about a stupid issue like the name of a FANBASE because you must be THAT bored. You’re not a Gandalf of wisdom in the music industry in fact you have more bad said about you than good. Your band and your hustle was never anything stellar. You’re spending your time in these comments shit talking what I wear on stage when you could be spending more time with your SON.”

It continues on from there here and here. As mentioned above, I, The Breather are in the midst of a farewell tour. It Lives, It Breathes on the other hand recently signed with Attila frontman Chris Fronzak‘s label Stay Sick Records and will have a new album out in April. More on that can be found here.

[via Lambgoat]