Hello BTBAM fans, I just wanted to let you know that I think I am becoming a fan of this band RIGHT NOW.
I know nothing about them but I listened to Coma Ecliptic and Parallax II last summer and already liked them. But then I went on a camping trip with my friends and I can't put on that stuff all day while playing beer pong with them, so I kinda lost track and didn't start listening to those albums again since then. But for no specific reason I put on Coma again about a week ago and continued with Automata (which I consider one album) and I fucking love it. Coma has a great retro-prog/DT style to it, but Automata is even better. The Proverbial Bellow is like a Haken song that Haken never wrote.
I feel like now that I know every single album by Neal Morse, Yes, Genesis, DT, Crimso, ELP, Marillion, SW & PT, Tool, IQ, BBT and many, many more, it's hard to really get to know a new artist that really blows me away. And I feel like for a few years now, weirdly, this happens roughly once every year. Last year, it was TesseracT. 2020, it was Leprous. I am absolutely in love with those bands and though have known their names for years before, I had never checked them out. BTBAM is another example for a band I have known about for years but never really checked them out - until now. It might be very early, but maybe, these guys are this year's "discovery of the year" for me