fuck yes

inb4 hate

fuck yes[2]

fuck yes [3]

inb4 hate [2]

Lol at 0:47

didn't pick blake out for having curly long hair, looks nice on him

the rest is the rest

wewt

that solo paul's playing before the halfway point sounds mad chill

yes! I'm still in before the hate!

inb4 hate [3]. fuck yes! [4]. Typical BTBAM humour which is always funny (most of the time). Can't wait.

Yes, still inb4 hate [4]. I can't wait for this.

Lol video is awesome

This is probably gonna suck. There, the hate all of you idiots were asking for.

People talk shit on BTBAM because the majority of their fans are IDIOTS who feel that if anybody else isn't sucking the band's dick then they must be flat out wrong and just haters. This produces hilarious arguments where idiots (sputnikers) go "NO WAY MAN LIKE THE GUITARIST IS NUTS" in rebuttal to arguments about how poorly structured their songs are.

cute lamb mappers

lol @ Mappy.

cute lamb mappers

So let me see here...your 5's are all atrocious and you say BTBAM sucks because they have bad structured songs....yea hater much?

Did you not just post a comment earlier saying how you like the solo? Or are you just trolling? Right your just trolling nevermind the comment then

All of my 5s are atrocious? Are you sure you're not just seeing the Aiden albums I 5'ved as a joke for Enrique?

Like, bro, if you think Anomie is atrocious, I'm gonna have to fight you.

But I was kind of teaching a lesson/trolling simultaneously, though I think they really could work on the structuring of their songs, what with how much that hurt Colors and The Great Misdirect in my opinion.

personally i think they structured their songs alot better on TGM than Colors which was a bit all over the place especially considering it was supposed to be a 60+ min song in total.

They definitely did on TGM, but I still think it's like, lolwtf guys?

Like I just don't get it.

Prayer For Cleansing and Glass Casket are/were both bands that structured their songs extremely well, it just seems like with BTBAM they're trying to overdue the "progressive" thing too much now.

That and trying to re-create the accident that was The Silent Circus.

It's a kid. Sheep and goats aren't the same thing, kthx.

I'm so sorry for being snippy, I'm just very tired I can't sreep. :c

People talk shit on BTBAM because the majority of their fans are IDIOTS who feel that if anybody else isn't sucking the band's dick then they must be flat out wrong and just haters. This produces hilarious arguments where idiots (sputnikers) go "NO WAY MAN LIKE THE GUITARIST IS NUTS" in rebuttal to arguments about how poorly structured their songs are. [2]

BTBAM do get unnessecary hate tho. It was like a few people hate TGM...fine. But then some people follow the bandwagon and now almost half the site hates them. Im not saying the people above me dont legitely dislike BTBAM, but its become cool to hate BTBAM to the point where its obvious some people have just jumped on to the hate bandwagon.

Yeah, it's like when kids "hate" Circle Takes The Square, you can pick out the flawed argumentation very very quickly.

Except CTTS is way more over the top. Goddamn bandwagons on here.

Like pretending Emery is good. d:

Lol yeah the CTTS was really ridiculous, especially cos they were following MJ who had the shittest arguement for an album being bad ever.

STRAVINSKI MADE DISSONANCE OBSOLETE BRO

ugh ugh ugh

and I hate how people are like ITS LIKE NOT REALLY CHAOTIC ITS JUST A BAD MISMATCH OF HEAVY SPAZZY PARTS AND SOFT PARTS

totally missing the point guys...

inb4 legit hate. Looks promising.

Video is tits

Looking forward to this

Anyone else get a Scale the Summitesque vibe from the guitar work in the early portion of the video?

I kept waiting for Dan to play.... he never did....

Will check this out later, interested in seeing curly hair.

I agree with WitchXRapist on BTBAM's song structure making you think WTF? I tried getting into them when everybody seemed to be talking about how good they were. I just couldn't. I recognize they have some good songs but they just don't do it for me. Protest the Hero seems to take what they do but do it better.

lol u kidding me? protest the hero is 95% wankery.

lol r u kidding me? BTBAM is 95% wankery.

yeah but protest the hero suck 95% more than this band

"Yeah, it's like when kids "hate" Circle Takes The Square, you can pick out the flawed argumentation very very quickly.

Except CTTS is way more over the top. Goddamn bandwagons on here.

Like pretending Emery is good. d:"

hey man. say what you want about btbam, but leave emery out of this. i know they are gay, but i love them.

Chill solo. Love it.

Oh yeah, forgot about them making an EP.

YES.

Sounds like same old BTBAM, which is nice. Curly hair looks good too.

BtBaM EP?! Yuuuuuuuusssssssssss

Hell yeah.

Silent Circus still one of my all time fivavarationaes.

this is awful. What the hell is that stupid beat? and what is up with the vocals/lyrics? its unbelievably terrible.

lol i really doubt those are gonna be in the EP, they've tended to goof around in past videos where the stupid parts weren't involved in the album at all. Example: the teen wolf part in one of the videos leading up to TGM, tho i would of lol'd if they put it in.

'protest the hero suck 95% more than this band'

Quoted for truth.

I was excited for this video, and I enjoyed it but it's mostly them fooling around.
That being said, I'm already excited about what's next for these guys. I love the direction they're heading in, and I'm excited to hear what they've come up with so soon after TGM.

Oh, and Blake's a hawtie with that dayum long hur!

I miss the old BTBAM :[

BUT BROKEncyde MAKES ME SO HAPPY

I love BTBAM, but I DO wish they would go back to doing a few shorter songs here and there, with Tommy doing some highs as well, instead of just all lows.

Haha can't wait, I really hope this is more "The silent circus" thing

hope this is more like the TSC-Colors era

FINALLY ONE OF MY SUBMISSIONS FOR NEWS GETS PUBLISHED. This will rule. hoping for a Colors/TGM take on shorter songs.

I'm kind of dreading that the EP will be another prog fest, but the stuff on this vid sounds promising. If Tommy brings back his Alaska-style vocals, with all the highs and stuff, that would be siiiiiiiick.

'protest the hero suck 95% more than this band'

Quoted for truth. [2]

I don't mind Tommy sticking to his screaming style, but I hope he brings back his singing range he used in Alaska. IT'S RAINING, IT'S RAINING, IT'S RAIIIIIAIAIAIAIIAIAIAIAIAIAIA. also, does anyone know if they're recording with Jamie King again? cause this all appears to be pre-production.

The video was about as cohesive as their music

Their studio vids are always like that. But at least they're miles better than PTH videos.

wait, what? PtH's videos are funny and you never know what to expect.

As much as I love these guys, their sense of humor... I mean maybe Blake is somewhat funny but the rest...

Their videos are SO NOT funny. No band is ever funny.

I'm not saying hilarious but they are funny.

You're just bitter cause you play for Grumpy Old Men.

They can be amusing with their cool basketball tricks I guess. But BTBAM for sure is not funny. But I like their videos more because they actually show studio footage.

Why would you want studio footage? I mean, really. Most of the stuff you hear there is not actually going in the album.

gonna suck

Now you're just trying to hurt me.

I don't watch footage because I want to hear the album as quickly as possible. I watch because I like seeing HOW bands write their albums and what tools they use, etc.

I couldn't care less about the final product really.

"People talk shit on BTBAM because the majority of their fans are IDIOTS who feel that if anybody else
isn't sucking the band's dick then they must be flat out wrong and just haters. This produces
hilarious arguments where idiots (sputnikers) go "NO WAY MAN LIKE THE GUITARIST IS NUTS" in rebuttal
to arguments about how poorly structured their songs are."

so true. tgm is fucking horrible.

Am I the only person that LIKES the WTF song structures?

looks like u found a new sputnik friend

'so true. tgm is fucking horrible.'

Lol u have Colors at a 4 and say mappy's statement is true and TGM is horrible? yeah that makes sense when Colors is more random and wtf and less structured than TGM.

People used to love the band. Then they experimented more and made so called "wtf song structures" and they became horrible to most.

TGM isn't spectacular, but I'm not a fan of pre-Alaska BTBAM.

Colors >>>>>>> TGM

Big time.

I enjoyed TGM a lot.

TGM >> Colors

Colors sucks

TGM is far more cohesive than Colors, but Colors was a hard album to follow up on. People let their high opinions of Colors make their opinions on TGM biased as shit.

Colors sucks

hur dur btbam is gud

You complete me.

mods deleted your comments

yeah great misdirect is tonnes better than colours

but realistically

i will love the crap out of anything BTBAM for four months then never listen again. but those four months are great and so it's worth the admission.

Yep.

Their songs are so bloody long, I don't know how someone can listen to like more than two in a row.

i can only listen to them when i'm playing video games now because i like to listen to a few of their songs in one sitting.

I haven't listened to BTBAM at all in a really long time.

I haven't listened to them in a while either.

Their songs are so bloody long, I don't know how someone can listen to like more than two in a row.

BTBAM is good to some, bad to others. Let's agree to disagree

TGM is good, but it seems lazier than Colors. Swim To The Moon was meant to be ambitious but it's far more droning than anything (though there are plenty of pockets of sheer brilliance within that song).

Used to be my favorite band, but I've been much more on board with Radiohead and Thrice lately.

"A-D-D + BTBAM=no go" [2]

Colors is my favorite. I can't listen to one song without listening to the rest. TGM seems really lazy and thrown together at last minute, but they still pulled off a good sound.

band rules

sputnik hipsters disagree

moving on

- "hipsters"
- hipster hitler avatar

sigh....

anyways, i used to listen to these guys all the time 3 or 4 years ago. their whole schtick is getting kind of old now though.

Are they like the Three Stooges? I don't see it.

their schtick is that their idea of "progressive" music is throwing forced wacky genres into the middle of their poorly constructed songs. it doesn't help that they have to constantly fall back on their boring and unoriginal metalcore roots once the solo or the break is over. and their songwriting doesn't really seem to be improving all that much, except for Desert of Song.

don't get me wrong, they used to be one of my favorite bands back in the day, but they are really starting to get pretty tiresome.

I love having all those genres in one band. It mixes things up, and I love damn near anything musical, so it's refreshing to hear something besides the same sound track to track. It's why bands like letlive and Glassjaw are so high on my favorites list.

what I think is unfair is no other band really gets put under the knife in writing styles as much as btbam does. [2]

it's also unfair that clearly less-talented and less-creative bands are gaining a lot of positive comments while BTBAM is sinking into this slum of negativity.

hope there's a horse on this one too.

Or maybe some kind of disjunct overly-long progressive animal

Imma go with centaur.

band gets so much love

BTBAM?

This might be worth checking out.

i love how people try to belittle a band like BTBAM to create a fisade of being more musically inclined than everyone else. i know people have different tastes but if progressive-metal is a genre you like then how could you honestly say that BTBAM is not refreshingly original and technically more advanced than 99% of all the other bands in the genre. i'll be the first to say that i don't know anything about song structure but as an undergrad at Cal-Berkley, I have friends that are Jazz majors here(the toughest style of music of compose and comprehend) and they both say that BTBAM and Dillinger Escape Plan are by FAR the most technically advanced bands out there. so unless you have some sort of credentials, don 't throw off on their style because you probably just don't know what you're listening to..

their schtick is that their idea of "progressive" music is throwing forced wacky genres into the middle of their poorly constructed songs. it doesn't help that they have to constantly fall back on their boring and unoriginal metalcore roots once the solo or the break is over. and their songwriting doesn't really seem to be improving all that much, except for Desert of Song.

i love how people try to belittle a band like BTBAM to create a fisade of being more musically inclined than everyone else.

i know people have different tastes but if progressive-metal is a genre you like then how could you honestly say that BTBAM is not refreshingly original and technically more advanced than 99% of all the other bands in the genre.

i'll be the first to say that i don't know anything about song structure but as an undergrad at Cal-Berkley, I have friends that are Jazz majors here(the toughest style of music of compose and comprehend) and they both say that BTBAM and Dillinger Escape Plan are by FAR the most technically advanced bands out there.

so unless you have some sort of credentials, don 't throw off on their style because you probably just don't know what you're listening to..

Also, judging by the fact that you type like a 14 year old, I highly doubt you're a student at Berkley.

BtBaM are hardly the most technical or talented band out there. I enjoy them on occasion, but honestly, they're not all that good. Most of the songs don't flow well. It has nothing to do with poor song -structure- and everything to do with crappy transitions that leave riffs feeling lifeless and empty. Even the quirky out of genre moments would be massively helped by a nice dose of songwriting skill, and more true variation in writing style. Most songs now are death metal, solo, death metal, solo, interlude, solo, solo, solo, solo, solo, solo, death metal, wacky crap, solo, death metal. A better mix of other genres than just wacky crap every now and then would make their music so much more interesting and give something to hold onto to make songs memorable.

Also, did TGM sound just like Colors to anyone else? With less charm and more structure?

It has nothing to do with poor song -structure- and everything to do with crappy transitions that leave riffs feeling lifeless and empty.

Also, did TGM sound just like Colors to anyone else? With less charm and more structure?

Too bad the band is so boring.

Too bad that's like, your opinion man.

haha @witchxrapist, you got me with facade..I don't need to explain myself to you though or prove the fact that I'm a Cal-Berkley undergrad. The only rebuttal I have though is that I'm in fact, not an English major but an Accounting/Finance major. I just brought it up because we have a very prestigious music program, that's all. So you can kiss my ass and continue with your trolling.

Yo I wasn't trolling you kiddo, and I am an art major, so idk what majors have to do with ability to spell and construct sentences.

:>

Well good luck with your art major. If you are an abstract-expressionist, I might be interested in your work. And it's fair to criticize my grammar but to my defense, it was 3 in the morning and I wasn't really writing to impress anyone. My whole point was to just call people out on their pompous attitudes towards popular bands such as BTBAM. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but to say BTBAM is talentless, considering the audience on sputnik, is either an attempt to troll or possibly a ploy to appear somewhat more musically-inclined than everyone else. My final comment of BTBAM is while there were shining moments in TGM, it was a disappointment relative to the masterpieces they created. I honestly hope the EP has a completely new sound, hopefully having influences from Jazz and Classical music.

Yeah, I have to say I think they're extremely talented musicians, but their past two albums have let me down. I really hope this EP has a more focused sound, that's all.

And I love most of the projects members of the band have been in previously before too, especially Glass Casket, Undying, and Prayer For Cleansing.

Neat.

Colors and The Great Misdirect don't have the staying power of their previous albums. Especially The Great Misdirect

mappy droppin bombs

Bombs Over BTBAM

Hmmm I hope this is better than the last one. I burnt out on TGM reeeeally quick. Maybe they should stop trying so hard to come up with the craziest things they can think of to throw into songs...I could definitely go for another album like Alaska. Excited anyway.

Wish my internet worked correctly. As much as i love this band, 12 minute songs just dont go well with me.

Here he comes mappy's dropping PLATES ON YOUR ASS BIATCH.

fuck yes [4]

omg habib!

song structure or not... blake and paul are two of the most talented fellows making music.

agreed with lack of song structure but that is what makes current btbam btbam. i like that.

TGM was weak as a full album.

"Lol u have Colors at a 4 and say mappy's statement is true and TGM is horrible? yeah that makes
sense
when Colors is more random and wtf and less structured than TGM."

lol i havent used this site in 2 years because 97% of people on here are retarded. i loved colors
when it came out, but i can barely stand listening to it anymore. not to mention that TGM was
basically just colors but not good, so i dont see how having colors at a 4 has anything to do with
my opinions on TGM. also, who the fuck cares about structured songs when the songs suck to begin
with?

TGM sucks and this ep will no doubt suck as well.

NOodle poodle woodle choodle smoodle

witchxrapist u made me think there was a new thursday album with your avatar...

Gonna be tiiiight.

cololololors

band is great, the EP should be as well