Between the Buried and Me

[The Antihero]

What does everybody think of these guys?

I always presumed they were some lame Poison the Well ripoff (probably mostly because of their record label which is Victory) but I grabbed a couple samples online and I liked them. So I went out today and bought 2 of their albums (Alaska, Colors).

I'm pleasantly surprised. These guys have a lot of talent and they don't seem to care about staying within any musical boundaries. They just do what they do, which I really respect in a band.

 

[Carta's]

I only heard Colors, but it's pretty much great.

 

[Necropeth]

Great band. I like their less "core" stuff much better, such as colors. Alaska is excellent also.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

alaska is the only one i like by them but it is fuckin awesome

 

[Nibster18]

I like alaska and colors, which were great.

 

[Crepuscularia]

I can't really get into them so far but they are damn sure talented. It just seems like the songs lack cohesion. Opeth can get away with it sometimes but with these guys I think it's just too much...

 

[The Antihero]

^

I think that's why I like them though, the lack of "cohesion".

I swear there must be like 240 different riffs on Selkies and they go from synth intros, to a mathcore rampage, to a soft classical piano part that sounds like 70s Eric Clapton. it's completely off the wall and I LOVE IT!!!!

 

[beast from the east]

As others have said, Alaska and Colors are both fantastic.

 

[tchocky]

At first I thought Colors was excellent stuff, but the more I've listened to it the more I've found it to be quite tiresome in places. Haven't heard Alaska, but from what I can tell the further you go back in their catalogue, the more metalcore it becomes and that is quite a turn-off for me. Then again, Colors has a surprisingly small amount of metalcore in it though.

 

[aaronjs]

Like most good progressive metal, BTBAM is absolutely not for the simple minded. There is too much going on and the timing can be difficult to follow, but that's what I love about it. It's definitely not background music since you have to concentrate to follow it, but Colors is fucking brilliant.

 

[Dude™]

hmmm.. i always associated them with those shit metalcore bands. But from what you guys are saying i might check them out

 

[The Antihero]

hmmm.. i always associated them with those shit metalcore bands. But from what you guys are saying i might check them out

They don't sound much like metalcore to me. More like Dillinger Escape Plan with some Dream Theater/King Crimson-influenced melodies and prog structures.

 

[in_my_time_of_disease]

Alaska is good, colors is very good. Everything else is pretty meh tbh.

 

[Koi]

dunno but they sound just like another metal band to me... i've given them a few spins, just don't work for me, although i respect them as talanted musicians.

 

[Taotrac]

I went to the show were they were filming their new live dvd, in nashville TN.
They're a great band, although I wish they made their hardcore parts a lil more rythmic like they did in the song Foam Born A. The rest of the hardcore parts get a lil boring.

 

[woodsmoke]

Only "core" band I listen to.

 

[Ozzloaf]

Colors is awesome! I really didn't like them at first but they grew on me and now they're one of my favorite bands. My favorite song of their is Selkies.

 

[Taotrac]

I think thats really the problem with all the new "core" bands. Their guitars and vocals really have no ryhthem, like the death metal of the 90's did. I mean you go listen to Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, Cradle Of Filth, Novembre, In Flames, and such, and they're death metal is so catchy. Like you can actually sing along, and play air guitar, and snap your fingers, and have a good time listening to something that STILL sounds so evil and brutal. All the new deathcore bands really are nothing worth listening to, and only rely on a live performance to get people to like them because of the mood and stuff. You couldn't listen to a song and actually remember it if you had too, much less beleive it's actually catchy. There's no musical writting talent at all. Its just people trying to give off a "br00tal live performance mood" so people can mosh to it without even actually listening to what the band sounds like. It's all about just making something thats loud enough to make people mosh. Between the buried and me save theirself from this because of their soft artistic parts, but their hardcore parts kinda fall into what i just talked about. It's sad cuz I know they can make them much catchier, like on Foam Born A. Like the people who truly know how to write death metal make it. Where you really actually do feel like moshing because of rythem, and not because its just a loud noise.