Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic
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Snake.
July 21st 2015


25598 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

People stop hating just to hate






gdi

Ryus
July 21st 2015


37885 Comments


hating is my hobby

deathschool
July 21st 2015


29487 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Sweet. Check Emmure

DrMaximus
July 21st 2015


12896 Comments


You don't have many 1-2's, you need to hate harder

climactic
July 21st 2015


22923 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

objectivity is important!

DinosaurJones
July 21st 2015


10414 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Man, I remember hearing False Love in Real Life back in 2008... and laughing. It was good times.

Ryus
July 21st 2015


37885 Comments


"You don't have many 1-2's, you need to hate harder"

i had this 1'd but i removed it

beefshoes
July 21st 2015


8448 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Bumped this up .5.



BMFD4567
July 22nd 2015


959 Comments


Fossil Genera and White Walls for greatest BTBAM

Insurrection
July 22nd 2015


24856 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

i dont even know if i can pick a fav btbam song. it would probably be Selkies just cause the entire second half is one of the greatest things ive ever heard

JWT155
July 22nd 2015


15040 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

This album is just so underwhelming.

DinosaurJones
July 22nd 2015


10414 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Yeah, I don't know if I could pick a favorite overall song. Selkies would definitely be up there. I could pick out bits and pieces of songs that I really dig though.



I'm really enjoying The Ectopic Stroll off of this album right now.

BMFD4567
July 22nd 2015


959 Comments


I'm sick of selkies haha

BrandonDrums
July 22nd 2015


2 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The more I listen to this album it's like BTBAM is consciously becoming the Dream Theater band that rips off Dream Theater licks rather than licks from all other famous bands.



Not that it's a bad thing at all but I have to question the songwriting strategy. Dream Theater is known for writing songs with bits and pieces directly inspired by famous parts and licks from other famous bands. "Home" from Scenes From a Memory is very similar to 46 and 2 by Tool, "Solitary Shell" from A Train of Tought is basically Peter Gabriel's' "Solsbury Hill" etc. etc.



Now BTBAM is pulling licks and bits from Dream Theater albums I could name by track and Min. as well as many parts that tribute pretty clearly to Porcupine Tree. While it's fun to listen to, it's also like holding Dream Theater up to a set of mirrors and seeing the endless fractal reflections going off into infinity. Stylistically BTBAM has been a living tribute to Core Metal, Classic Progressive Rock and Metal bands for a while. But On this album it seems that they've transitioned from giving tribute to their influences to simply re-writing their material.



On earlier albums BTBAM spent more time in their death-core grind sections making their material more chaotic and difficult to pin down. Now that they are writing in more coherent song structures the influences for many of their parts are there to observe and connect in plain daylight.



I really enjoy this album, for Prog Metal enthusiasts it's probably the most enjoyable album BTBAM has ever made since it pulls so many of the best elements of the best Prog Band(s) in the business. But I can't give a higher rating to the album as it seems that Coma Ecliptic is more of a mix-tape or sample track of other bands and less of a unique body of work. Except for those circus music sections and their signature unison fills.

ElegantElephant
July 23rd 2015


1391 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Disease, Injury, Madness highly underrated track

beefshoes
July 23rd 2015


8448 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The more I listen to this, the more I like and appreciate it.

It just takes time to digest like most of their stuff, but I am actually digging this unlike the last record.

beefshoes
July 23rd 2015


8448 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

Famine Wolf is easily my favorite from this.

Such a cool song.

Ocean of Noise
July 23rd 2015


11368 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

at first I thought this album's name was Coma Epileptic lol

kingjulian
July 24th 2015


1809 Comments


Recently had the weird realization that Alaska is the best thing this band ever did.

ElegantElephant
July 24th 2015


1391 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

colors is better tbh



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