Throughout Between the Buried And Me’s career, the band has obliterated any and all boundaries surrounding their music. Tearing down the walls between progressive rock, death metal, math-metal, jazz, and anything and everything else they see fit to construct intense, complex and thoroughly enjoyable noise.
Their newest release sees them continuing their no-limits songwriting with a lean, half an hour album that may be divided into three tracks, but for all its worth its one cohesive piece.
The album plays like a movie- you just can’t wait to see what happens next. Opening with an epic synth-heavy opus that could score a film (these guys make their presence known immediately), the album finds it’s metal footing with fantastic growls and amazing chugging riffs to rival their heaviest material. However, they’ll take you for a ride at a moments notice, whether it’s a bizarre euro-folk section breaking out during the second track “Augment of Rebirth” to a cool, jazz fusion intro to the third track.
BTBAM take the best of prog-rock/metal and take it to even loftier heights, truly smashing down the barricades of genre. This EP is to be a lead in to a full-length, so there’s no telling where the band could go from here, but as this record proves: the sky’s the limit. Fans of the newest releases of The Human Abstract and Protest the Hero will not want to miss this.
Available on CD. BTBAM always do a great job with their artwork, and this record is no exception: awesome abstract art that feeds off of the lyrical theme of the album: the potentially devastating and life-changing decisions of two people living worlds and years apart.
