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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1225 on: October 05, 2021, 07:06:13 PM »

I predict Tim won't like Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues and Parallax 2 as much as Colors or The Great Misdirect. I also think Coma Ecliptic will be his favorite or possibly Colors II.

Looking forward to finding out.

I've accepted harsh vocals over the last few years, but that doesn't mean I like all of them, and I am really struggling with these.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1226 on: October 05, 2021, 08:00:27 PM »

I predict Tim won't like Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues and Parallax 2 as much as Colors or The Great Misdirect. I also think Coma Ecliptic will be his favorite or possibly Colors II.

Looking forward to finding out.

I've accepted harsh vocals over the last few years, but that doesn't mean I like all of them, and I am really struggling with these.

Fair enough mate.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1227 on: October 07, 2021, 09:23:33 PM »
Managed to pick up the CD version of the new album today!  :metal
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1228 on: October 08, 2021, 05:02:14 PM »
I just got my CD in the mail today. The similarities between one and two are pretty striking as the album begins. But then it sort of becomes it’s own entity after that. I really enjoyed my first spin!
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1229 on: October 13, 2021, 11:35:12 PM »
I am 100% sure that I have heard this riff/melody before!
At 4:41 mark in "The Double Helix of Extinction":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tBJKmksLgo

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1230 on: October 14, 2021, 08:49:25 AM »
Based on a few listens so far:

Colors II >>>>>>>>> Colors.

Hot take, I know, but while I respect what Colors did for the band, every album that has come after it has been better, IMHO.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1231 on: November 14, 2021, 03:25:00 AM »
I am 100% sure that I have heard this riff/melody before!
At 4:41 mark in "The Double Helix of Extinction":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tBJKmksLgo

Any help?

Has a bit of a Behemoth vibe this section.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1232 on: November 14, 2021, 07:55:03 AM »
So I'm new to this band. I had heard of them, but never gave them a try. Thanks to reading this thread, I decided to buy their new album (along with a few others) when I got my copy of the new DT. It took a while to digest and I don't think I fully did yet, but I really dig it. It's a great album!

Also, took me a while to realize that the singer was doing both clean and harsh vocals. They don't sound like the same guy at all  :lol

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1233 on: November 14, 2021, 08:21:30 AM »
Usually when a big band drops a new album, people here discuss whether they like it and what their favourite tracks are. With Colors II, everyone just agrees that it slays start to finish.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1234 on: November 14, 2021, 08:48:16 AM »
Usually when a big band drops a new album, people here discuss whether they like it and what their favourite tracks are. With Colors II, everyone just agrees that it slays start to finish.

I think time will tell if this is a good thing or not. I really like Colors II as a cohesive chunk but unlike some of their other albums, there's not those songs I can say stand out from the pack like Ants of the Sky or Lay Your Ghosts to Rest or Swim to the Moon for example. That's not necessarily a slant on Colors II though, I highly enjoy the ride all the way through but I think either with time those favorites will emerge or the album does risk dropping a place or two in the overall ranking because of it.

But it's nice to see people really take to the new album. I guess I'm in the minority where I haven't disliked Coma Ecliptic or the Automata albums (though they should have been 1 album IMO) so I kinda went into Colors II hoping for another great album and that's what we got. But it's also nice to hear people who weren't excited about the band anymore get some of that back.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1235 on: November 14, 2021, 09:21:35 AM »
Usually when a big band drops a new album, people here discuss whether they like it and what their favourite tracks are. With Colors II, everyone just agrees that it slays start to finish.
It’s my album of the year. Which is saying something cuz DT and Mastodon both put out excellent albums too.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1236 on: November 16, 2021, 02:54:54 AM »
Usually when a big band drops a new album, people here discuss whether they like it and what their favourite tracks are. With Colors II, everyone just agrees that it slays start to finish.
It’s my album of the year. Which is saying something cuz DT and Mastodon both put out excellent albums too.
I agree with this and I add to DT & Mastodon: LTE, Transatlantic and NMB

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1237 on: November 16, 2021, 07:56:37 AM »
I have the new Mastodon edging out Colors II for my album of the year, but both are just incredible!  The new Cynic comes out next week, so we'll see where that falls too.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1238 on: November 16, 2021, 02:33:23 PM »
I'm listening to Parallax II again because of TAC's roulette and it's actually a bit better than I remember it. I think it's my clear favorite of the post-TGM albums now.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1239 on: November 16, 2021, 05:46:32 PM »
RANKING

Parallax I
Colors
Parallax II
Coma
Alaska
BTBAM/TGM
Silent Circus

Colors II has lots I like but I'm not familiar with it enough to say where it goes, and I've only heard a few songs from the Automatas that I didn't care for.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1240 on: November 16, 2021, 06:26:50 PM »
RANKING

Parallax I
Colors
Parallax II
Coma
Alaska
BTBAM/TGM
Silent Circus

wat
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1241 on: November 16, 2021, 06:32:25 PM »
RANKING

Parallax I
Colors
Parallax II
Coma
Alaska
BTBAM/TGM
Silent Circus

wat
Nothing wrong with Parallax I being on top, but The Great Misdirect being so low is concerning...
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1242 on: November 16, 2021, 06:38:18 PM »
Parallax I is legitimately the strongest thing they've ever released. No weak points, no subpar sections, just pure fucking quality all the way through.

TGM's kinda boring for the most part, with occasional breaks for interesting music.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1243 on: November 16, 2021, 06:41:30 PM »
Parallax I is legitimately the strongest thing they've ever released. No weak points, no subpar sections, just pure fucking quality all the way through.

Specular Reflection is great, I'll give you that.
Augment Of Rebirth is... okay
Lunar Wilderness gets a lot of praise but I've never gotten the appeal, personally.
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« Reply #1244 on: November 16, 2021, 07:12:32 PM »
I heard in a couple interviews that the band considers Parallax I to be their weakest work by far. They say that things were ‘weird’ at the time and that they tried to cram too much music into an EP because they’re so used to doing full lengths. They don’t consider themselves an EP band. I mostly agree - SR is one of their best songs but the other 2 don’t do anything for me 🤷‍♂️

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« Reply #1245 on: November 16, 2021, 07:35:32 PM »
That’s a shame because I think P1 is incredibly strong as well. In fact, after “not getting“ Colors for the longest time, curiosity got me to check out P1 at a hot topic listening station ironically enough… based on that listen, I bought the CD right away and after that their whole sound just started to click with me.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1246 on: November 16, 2021, 10:45:33 PM »
Parallax I is legitimately the strongest thing they've ever released. No weak points, no subpar sections, just pure fucking quality all the way through.

TGM's kinda boring for the most part, with occasional breaks for interesting music.

I kind of agree.  Colours is my favourite but P1 is half an hour of brilliance.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1247 on: November 17, 2021, 08:30:10 AM »
Augment Of Rebirth is... okay
Lunar Wilderness gets a lot of praise but I've never gotten the appeal, personally.

Augment of Rebirth is my favorite song on P1, it's just 10 minutes of awesomeness.
Lunar Wilderness as a whole is good, but the last two minutes is one of the greatest moments in BTBAM's discography and elevates the song from good to great.

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« Reply #1248 on: November 17, 2021, 10:13:44 AM »
I really wish they had played 1&2 back to back when they toured for it.
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« Reply #1249 on: November 19, 2021, 03:50:34 PM »
I really wish they had played 1&2 back to back when they toured for it.

Best idea in the world  :metal :metal
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« Reply #1250 on: November 19, 2021, 05:31:10 PM »
I really wish they had played 1&2 back to back when they toured for it.

I was disappointed when they didn't.
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1251 on: December 14, 2021, 11:21:41 AM »
Boom...

And they finally are playing a weekend show!!!


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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1252 on: December 14, 2021, 11:34:12 AM »
aaaaaaaaaand no Pacific Northwest dates.  :censored
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« Reply #1253 on: May 25, 2022, 12:50:31 PM »
Major bump!!

The band just announced that they are releasing The Great Misdirect Live on their Facebook page!!


When they first announced parallax 2 I wasn’t that excited about it. But now I think I like it better than the studio version so I’m pretty psyched for this release.
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« Reply #1254 on: May 25, 2022, 01:07:03 PM »
BUMMER! Just discovered it’s vinyl only for now.

I mean, I have vinyl and I love vinyl, but vinyl only releases are kinda bogus.
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« Reply #1255 on: May 25, 2022, 01:21:31 PM »
I was at that show!

They should have included more than just TGM too... the first set was great and the way Swim To The Moon flowed right into White Walls was amazing.
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« Reply #1256 on: May 28, 2022, 10:38:15 AM »
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  :tup
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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1257 on: May 28, 2022, 10:42:17 AM »
Enjoy the ride my friend! I’d say with the exception of the first 2 albums, all of their work is incredible! Also, I recommend you see them live (headlining) ASAP, they’re such an amazing live band.

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Re: Between the Buried and Me
« Reply #1258 on: May 28, 2022, 11:09:24 AM »
Report back after you have digested Colors II. It's the tightest 80-minute album I've heard in recent years.

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« Reply #1259 on: May 28, 2022, 11:36:19 AM »
Enjoy the ride my friend! I’d say with the exception of the first 2 albums, all of their work is incredible! Also, I recommend you see them live (headlining) ASAP, they’re such an amazing live band.
And those first two albums, while not as incredible as the rest, still have some great songs and lots of glimmers of future awesomeness.  :metal

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