Between the Buried and Me Appreciation Thread

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Moatilliatta wrote: The Miracle wrote: avalanchemaster wrote: The Miracle wrote: Their music is such a terrible mess, took me a while to build some tolerance... not that I still have, but at least now i acknowledge the awesomness if by "mess" you mean that it constantly changes styles and time sigs and does not follow a predictable course, than YES, it is a beautiful mess! Precisely, there is almost no melody which makes it very hard to swallow, in an avant garde sense... kinda like Behold the Arctopus with vocals.   ? There are melodies everywhere. Except for the bulk of "The Decade of Statues" and "Informal Gluttony," the tracks on Colors are rife with melodies, or maybe I have a more broad definition of melody. Certainly there is a lot going on at any given time, but it's all distinguishable and memorable.   I also find it interesting that you have a Gojira avatar and are saying that this is "a terrible mess," with no melody, that took you a while to build some tolerance. To me Gojira is way more difficult to swallow. They're heavier, and for longer periods of time, with way less melody and less to connect to emotionally.

Yes there are TONS of melodies gallavanting all over the place....broken apart by crazed atonal riffage.... they have great dynamics I say!

Moatilliatta wrote: ? There are melodies everywhere. Except for the bulk of "The Decade of Statues" and "Informal Gluttony," the tracks on Colors are rife with melodies, or maybe I have a more broad definition of melody. Certainly there is a lot going on at any given time, but it's all distinguishable and memorable.   I also find it interesting that you have a Gojira avatar and are saying that this is "a terrible mess," with no melody, that took you a while to build some tolerance. To me Gojira is way more difficult to swallow. They're heavier, and for longer periods of time, with way less melody and less to connect to emotionally.

The one of the best things about a great album is to be rewarding after repeated listens, so it was more of a compliment
I meant exactly that there is so much going on in every song it's pretty overwhelming at first, and takes a while to untangle the ends.
The genius of BTBAM is that they create insanely complex music that nonetheless makes sense and is memorable, unlike so many metalcore bands these days who get it wrong.  I mean melody in a more traditional sense, i'm not a musician but their riffs sound more abrasive and atonal, as opposed to the standard polished riffs metal bands use these days. They also switch riffs and whole genres so many times during a song it takes longet to get the whole picture. Kinda like with Meshuggah's Nothing where it took me about 5 listens to tell the difference between songs and 5 more to learn to like them.

As for Gojira, it's strange that you find them harder... Their sound is more consistent and songs are more conventionally structured, i.e. they're not nearly as adventurous.

avalanchemaster wrote: The Miracle wrote: Their music is such a terrible mess, took me a while to build some tolerance... not that I still have, but at least now i acknowledge the awesomness if by "mess" you mean that it constantly changes styles and time sigs and does not follow a predictable course, than YES, it is a beautiful mess!

Precisely, there is almost no melody which makes it very hard to swallow, in an avant garde sense... kinda like Behold the Arctopus with vocals.

Their music is such a terrible mess, took me a while to build some tolerance... not that I still have, but at least now i acknowledge the awesomness

Oh man, I can't use words to describe how awesome this band is! When I first heard the band, I couldn't get over how good "Mordecai" was. Then Alaska came out, and me and my first thought it couldn't possibly get better than "Selkies." And then they dropped Colors...and my life will never be the same.

To whom it applies, let's write some five-star reviews for Colors. The album's current score is entirely unfitting!

I keep meaning to check out this band

My copy of Colors seems to be eternally in transit to me :(. Stupid University post office.

burritounit wrote: HughesJB4 wrote: Colors pretty much destroyed my face when I first heard it. I have been unable to go more than a week without putting it in my CD player since I bought it. It was the most perfect release in metal for 2007 IMO 10/10 for me, easily. Well at first I didn't liked it one bit. It wasn't until a few weeks that I just fell in love with these guys. Ants Of The Sky is so mind blowing. I think I might get their Colors Live album. Heard pretty good things about.

HughesJB4 wrote: Ohhh man, I actually liked the album straight away, but at first it wasn't 10/10, because it had not sunk in yet. After listening to it a few times, I knew I was in love with it. I remember when I used to listen to White Wall on repeat. When a band writes a song over 14 minutes long that I can put on repeat, you know they have done something amazing:)

It's true. Ohh well I think I'm gonna listen to it tonight. It's been quite a while since I've listened to it.