BT Fuckin' BAM (Between the Buried and Me)

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so is it just me or are these dudes so sick its just disgusting? I give credit for getting me into metal to my beloved departed fiance Steve , metalhead supreme. At first it just sounded like screaming to me but after he died (rest in peace forever and always and keep rockin on til we meet again in metal heaven my babe) i started really goin back thru all the music he listened to and paying attention. and btbam being one of his all time favs i gave em some serious listening and now im obsessed. So many awesome songs. Right now i got Ants of the Sky stuck on replay.ridiculously brutal insane and beautiful its straight up orgasmic when it hits the breakdowns. Epic fuckin masterpiece. And how they can go from that to Desert of song it blows my mind how wide their style is and how they blend it all together so supremely. Bet yall never thought youd hear lacey k gettin all pumped up over metal but there you go. Anybody else here got a huge boner for btbam and want to blab on about how super great they are with me?
 
I loved them when I was in high school. Seen them several times and managed to get in to the Colors release show. I liked their S-T, Silent Circus, Alaska, and Colors, but everything after that im not as in to. I dont know why. They are great to see live.
 
yes....yes it is. \m/ i love the twists and turns it takes the style and tempo changes up as soon as you think you know where its going they just flip it to something totally unexpected. Also who the fuck else could throw in some straight up bluegrass with banjos and all that shit and have it sound awesome as fuck instead of cheesy out of place or stupid? Oh my god first time i heard that my head exploded
 
BtBaM kicks so much fucking ass it is ridiculous. I'm ashamed of myself for having never seen them live, but no bands ever come to Alabama and any time they have been close enough (Atlanta for example) there has been some school bullshit or something else get in the way. I was actually just talking to one of my friends earlier about Ants of the Sky, and Colors in general, being too awesome for words. I had to go and listen to Colors for the hundreth time and it is still as badass as the first listen. It's for sure my favorite album of theirs, but Selkies on Alaska is my favorite song by far. In fact, it's one of my all time favorite songs. It has been many years now but I literally remember every little detail about the moment that I first heard that song. My roommate in the dorm back then had a massive collection of metal that he would play on shuffle all day long, most of which I wasn't really crazy about. But then Selkies played. I had never heard them before and was totally blown away by the solo at the end. Fuck I love this band so much. I haven't really been listening to much metal in the past couple months and now this makes two people mentioning one of my favorite metal bands in just a matter of hours, maybe it's time to get back into it.
 
Wow with all the metal discussion ive seen in here im really suprised I aint seeing more love for btbam, im very suprised. i know othey really aint as metal metal as a lot of the more br00tal shit thats really heavy and these guys are way more melodic and progressive but still i figured thered be mad fans on here. anyways....Yall witnessing the metal transformation of lacey k remember this next time you see a pic of me with some snakebites and gauges you will say aw i remember when she used to talk about how she cant stand all that crazyness with guitars and screaming, all that crazy "white people music" hahahaha....anyways...i mentioned this in a thread in DC but if i push down the plunger around 0:50 in ants in the sky the rush will be hitting full force right at 1:15 when that glorious guitar riff starts and i totally cream my pants with awesomeness...BTDAM? (between the diesel and me?)
 
mmm...BTBAM has always been one of those bands that works on paper for me but doesn't really work in practice. Actually, if you just saw a written description of their sound and my tastes, you wouldn't just think that they'd be a band I like but rather that they're be my absolute favorite. Maybe I should give them another chance (beyond having heard "Alaska" a good few years ago).

ebola
 
BtBAM is arguably one of the best metal bands to ever exist. They have such a unique style, and play so many different kinds of music, which to me is a huge sign of an incredible amount of talent. If any of you haven't heard Thomas Giles' solo stuff, you should definitely give that a listen too.
 
^ "Arguably" is right. I saw these guys open for Mastodon and they bored the shit out of me - I admittedly am not familiar with their catalog in the slightest, but it seemed to me that (the one time I've seen them) they had a very superficial approach to their songwriting. Just because you can play different styles of music on a single track, doesn't mean you should. Every song from their set went like this: heavy/progressive metal - 10 minute jazz odyssey - heavy/progressive metal. Every single song was like that in their 10-song set. They had no stage presence, their riffs seemed uninspired (a couple times I found myself thinking they ripped off other bands, but it's been a few years and I was drunk, so I have no way of confirming that), and I was just completely unimpressed by them. Obviously they have some musical chops, but I don't think virtuosity necessarily means good songwriting.

Sorry to be the bummer in this thread, but my (limited) experience with BTBAM was really lackluster.
 
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^ "Arguably" is right. I saw these guys open for Mastodon and they bored the shit out of me - I admittedly am not familiar with their catalog in the slightest, but it seemed to me that (the one time I've seen them) they had a very superficial approach to their songwriting. Just because you can play different styles of music on a single track, doesn't mean you should. Every song from their set went like this: heavy/progressive metal - 10 minute jazz odyssey - heavy/progressive metal. Every single song was like that in their 10-song set. They had no stage presence, their riffs seemed uninspired (a couple times I found myself thinking they ripped off other bands, but it's been a few years and I was drunk, so I have no way of confirming that), and I was just completely unimpressed by them. Obviously they have some musical chops, but I don't think virtuosity necessarily means good songwriting.

Sorry to be the bummer in this thread, but my (limited) experience with BTBAM was really lackluster.
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Yea, well this coming from someone with "grunge" in his name. And *I* think GRUNGE is super extremely really lackluster. so there....;)


Ebola, forget about Alaska. Its all about Colors. You really cant judge em unless you listen to that. I cant really think of a music analogy but all im saying is dont judge a band by listening to what many people consider their least good record, ya gotta hear the good shit. Their earlier shit is a lot less diverse I guess more straight up heavyness. Colors is designed as one long track that flows into the next but my picks for you off it would be ants of the sky, prequel to the sequel, and white walls. outside that record id say selkies: the endless obsession, and specular reflection, just to give you a quick couple tracks to check out that might change your opinion...
 
Glad to see these guys are getting some love. I have a bit of an unhealthy (well, I think it's healthy ;)) obsession with this band. Everything they put out is pure gold IMO. Anyone who is any sort of musician will most likely appreciate what they do, even if you're not a big fan of their genre.

One thing that sets them apart from other bands is their ability to replicate their music live. There are a lot of bands in this genre that just don't seem to sound as good live as they do on their record but I've seen btbam over 10 times and I've never even heard them play a single note out of place (which is quite unbelievable based on how all over the place their music is).
 
Ahh, ebola, I was waiting for you to come back and let us know what you thought about it. Glad to see you decided to post n let us all know. you got wit the program my dude. ;) so mind bendingly good. go colors.

anyways, I aint really into the new parallax II , but I aint really gave it a good listen yet to confess.

also I mentioned it in the metal thread but BTBAM is on tour with the faceless and the contortionist and some gay ass band called the safety fire that I never heard of but without listening to them Im gonna say they suck, so you can just call me out for that if you want to since I have no idea what Im talkin about lol. But yea, tickets are only 18 bucks for the Starland Ballroom show here in jersey, they also gonna play a few others in the tri state area but if youre a fan check it out for 20 bones you cant go wrong....
 
They have one of the best dynamics of any metal band I've ever seen/heard. They were a sincere part of my childhood and I still listen to them to this day when I tie one on and get a yen for nostalgia and great sequences of time signature changes.


Their lead guitarist has one of my favorite styles of playing.

I wouldn't even consider them metal (only in the broadest of senses). They're more like if dream theatre, cannibal corpse, and blind melon had a child and named it BTBAM. I don't know what genre you'd call that, but classifying music has never been my forte.
 
^ Thats pretty much a perfect description. A blend of prog and death metal with something more delicate and ethereal mixed in as well. This sounds stupid but I cried the first time I heard them, it was "Mordecai"... I was young and it was the first time I'd ever experienced the juxtaposition of fast/slow hard/soft chaotic/melodic.

/sensitivity
 
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