This is the featured opening act for Dragonforce's solo sidetour during Ozzfest this summer. I will be seeing them, along with Lacuna Coil and DF, in ATL on 8/11. Be there! Any fans of this metalcore band? I just got their "Alaska" CD and really like what I've heard so far.
Between The Buried And Me
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Harvester
The Promoter
Selkies and the two instrumental tracks are amazing. I cannot stomach the vocals on the rest of the disc. Hell, I can't even understand him with the lyric sheet right in front of me.
That's cool. I like a bit of death growls in my music sometimes, so I can dig it. The instrumentals and ballads are quite good, as well. It's hard to pin down this band's exact style, though. I'd give "Alaska" a 9/10.Harvester said:
zedowns
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I love Between the Buried and Me.
I was fairly angered when I found out their tour with Dragonforce wasn't coming to LA outside of Ozzfest. Alaska is one hell of an album. :[
I was fairly angered when I found out their tour with Dragonforce wasn't coming to LA outside of Ozzfest. Alaska is one hell of an album. :[
dcowboys311
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IMO, Between the Buried and Me is the best metalcore band out there. All of their discs are great.
booB
Señor Member
I haven't heard a ton of their stuff, but what I've heard has been great. They sound like one of the more talented and complex metalcore bands in the mainstream.
aztattooedsean
crazed tattooed metalhead
I will say that I enjoy some of the musical parts of the alaska cd as well as their most recent all covers cd. They sure picked a wide variety of bands from queen,king crimson, faith no more, metallica, pink floyd, to cover.
BlackenedDawn
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Here's my complaint with this band so many people think so highly of. They have been around for a few years now, but I always grouped them in the metalcore/emocore side of the metal spectrum, to the point I just had no interest in even trying to hear them. Then it came the time I was finally about to see this damn band live (opening, of course). I have been told they are very reminiscent of Cryptopsy and their drummer is INSANE. I start to get a little interested.
I get one song in. They are EXACTLY what I expected them to be. They even had more clean (whiney live
) vocals than I thought, considering they are "so much like Cryptopsy." Minus the whole Canadian thing, there is NO comparison to the two. Absolutely none. I think that should've been obvious after the very first drop of their name. I will say, some songs (and you can tell which ones are older) did have some surprising blast beats, for a few seconds. They also attracted an odd group for a fanbase, which was ironically was also dead on with my original thoughts on the band. They were so pissed that this band wasn't headlining, everyone left after their "amazing" set. I did too. The bar, that is, finally to go back to the stage, haha 
. BTBAM is not for me. Enjoy them enough for the both of us, everyone. Cheers!
I get one song in. They are EXACTLY what I expected them to be. They even had more clean (whiney live
) vocals than I thought, considering they are "so much like Cryptopsy." Minus the whole Canadian thing, there is NO comparison to the two. Absolutely none. I think that should've been obvious after the very first drop of their name. I will say, some songs (and you can tell which ones are older) did have some surprising blast beats, for a few seconds. They also attracted an odd group for a fanbase, which was ironically was also dead on with my original thoughts on the band. They were so pissed that this band wasn't headlining, everyone left after their "amazing" set. I did too. The bar, that is, finally to go back to the stage, haha . BTBAM is not for me. Enjoy them enough for the both of us, everyone. Cheers!I am looking forward to seeing them as part of the DF/LC/BTBAM tour, but I wouldn't pay anything to see only them play live.
Pellaz
Tigron of Immanion
tattooedsean666 said:
That Pink Floyd cover was startlingly accurate, too, from what I heard of it. Their cover of "Territory" by Sepultura wasn't quite as close, but still pretty good; we played it on 6/17. I didn't hear the Earth Crisis cover we played that night; too late now to get it from the archive.
If I'd had time Friday night to find it, I'd have happily "borrowed" the all-covers CD from the studio, but sheesh, I was pretty much there all by my lonesome.
edgeofthorns
24 Hours Ago...
Isn't the Slayer frontman's brother in this band? For some reason I'm thinking I read that somewhere.
I was going to go to this show. Parents wont let me though 
Alot of good shows coming up soon for here in ATL
Alot of good shows coming up soon for here in ATL
Darn right!Cacti said:I was going to go to this show. Parents wont let me though
Alot of good shows coming up soon for here in ATL
Just listened to Alaska. I enjoyed the entire album. Now checking out S/T. I enjoy their instrumentals, but yeah their growl isn't my favorite. And from the other thread I started, who would know this is the same band as when they covered Queen's 'Bicylcle Race'? Btw. That cover is awesome. They are obviously very talented, because whenenever he stops growling, the instrumental work is beautiful. This band to me is like Opeth gone death, with Darkthrone growling (i.e. intelligible).
