Awesome news!

[Shpongled]

I didn't even know they were working on their next album, so this is a great surprise. This band is rad.

Hey guys!
Our new album is in the final stages of the mixing process and it sounds absolutely amazing. I thought it was about time to fill you in a little bit on some details pertaining to the album. It's titled "Colors" and is 8 tracks totaling 65 minutes of non stop music. Here's the track list:


Between the Buried and Me
"Colors"
1. Foam Born:
(a) the backtrack
2. (b) the decade of statues
3. Informal Gluttony
4. Sun of Nothing
5. Ants of the Sky
6. Prequel to the Sequel
7. Viridian
8. White Walls


Comes out September 18th.... come out this summer and see us with our friends The Red Chord, Cephalic Carnage, and The End. We'll be playing a few new songs...and get ready for something completely different this fall!!

-dan/btbam

 

[Cat5Messiah]

Sweet!

Yea, they kick major fucking ass.

 

[Chromatose]

whoa!

Never heard this band before, but due to Kevin always raving about them I'm checking out this new one. It's crazy good, guys.

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

whoa!

Never heard this band before, but due to Kevin always raving about them I'm checking out this new one. It's crazy good, guys.

Can you spare approximately two to three more sentences, friend?

 

[Dead Winter]

I heard a lot of good reviews about them, but I'm still somewhat hesitant. The word "metalcore" always pops up and the same reviewer gave Chimaira's 2nd abortion 5 stars...and Arcturus's Sideshow Symphonies a palsy 2 stars. After that, I stopped reading reviews.

So yes, in the words of penguin: can you spare a few more sentences?

 

[Chromatose]

Between The Buried And Me's "Colors" is an epic journey into sound. In trying to pinpoint exactly what the main focus is in sound for the band, I'm at a loss. I could claim "technical death metal", but that hardly makes up a majority of their sound. Technicality is for certain, but for every "Death" or "-core" segment, there is an equally contrasted section of gentle, melodic prog. In many bands, it is easy to simply juxtapose these sounds for the sake of variety, but on "Colors", there is a constant flow from the beginning of the album to the end. Hardly the genre mishmash that many current bands fall into the trap of merely for sake of being "innovative".

It's exciting, that's for sure.

As it was put on Blabbermouth: ""Colors" was previously described by BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME as "a 65-minute opus of non-stop pummeling beautiful music. We have described this release as 'adult contemporary death prog metal.'""

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

From what I've been hearing it isnt as good as Alaska.

 

[Jeff-Loomis-fan]

great band...cant wait

 

[mReEtTaIlRsEkD]

Chromatose>>> the edit was overkill. Stop second guessing your work!

 

[AsModEe]

they copy Opeth a lot IMO, but yeah, it's pretty good.

 

[Chromatose]

Chromatose>>> the edit was overkill. Stop second guessing your work!

Needed more verbs.

they copy Opeth a lot IMO, but yeah, it's pretty good.

I don't hear any Opeth at all, but what I do hear is a bit too much Dream Theater. Luckily that is confined to only 1 1/2 tracks.

 

[neal]

...and Arcturus's Sideshow Symphonies a palsy 2 stars.

meh, i thought that one was pretty boring too ESPECIALLY after masquerade and sham mirrors. garm knew when to bail.

 

[Chromatose]

Sideshow Symphonies was an LOL-trocious album. The only time where I shake my head at Simen's vocals.

 

[Liverslapper]

Listen to Mordecai...the whole song. Silent Circus is an awesome album...im a huge BTBAM fan myself.

 

[Dead Winter]

but what I do hear is a bit too much Dream Theater.

Count me out.

I'll give it a shot, though.

As for Arcturus' SS, "Nocturnal Visions Revisited" is brilliant and it's worth owning that album if only for that one track.

 

[Chromatose]

Purely in the musical sense. The vocals are anything but.

 

[Dead Winter]

Ok, I'll definitely give them an objective ear.

 

[Liverslapper]

Selkies: The Endless Obsession has an amazing solo at the end, check that one out too. gary is a great guitar player.

 

[the phish]

Selkies: The Endless Obsession has an amazing solo at the end, check that one out too. gary is a great guitar player.

Who's Gary?

Colors is a fantastic Prog metal album, sturdy contender for album of the year

 

[EricT]

This album is great... I think its loads ahead of their past material.