BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME — Colors (review)

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME — Colors album cover Album · 2007 · Progressive Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
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This album deserves to be heard by every fan of progressive metal at least once. Even if some may not enjoy it, they deserve to hear this excellent example of creativity and innovation in metal.

Colors is an album that is a little over an hour long that deserves to be listened to in its entirety. There are 8 separate songs, each contributing a huge part to the whole. In each song the listener will be assaulted with agressive, loud metal, with sort of a mix between death metal and metalcore (not deathcore). At any given point in the album, the band will suddenly take the extreme noise in a completely different direction, from jazz to middle eastern to latin. In any event, whoever is familiar with this album has to admit that Between The Buried and Me has a wonderful ability to write beautiful melodies, and are not just one of many standard metal bands who only make noisy songs and only occasionally slow it down for a ballad.

At first when writing a review for this album, I gave a little overview of a few of the songs. Looking back on the review, I wasn't familiar enough with the album to talk clearly about them. They are still brilliant, but all for different reasons. All of them have at least a bit of melody within them, usually in the form of some jazz influence, while being surrounded by metalcore of the more intense variety. For example, "Sun of Nothing" may contain the most blatantly agressive parts, exploding in a rapid blast of insanity. Suddenly it goes into baby noises and a jazz tinged funky backbeat. There are often a lot of ambient parts. Possibly the simplest song on the album, "Informal Gluttony" opens with epic phrygian mode Egyptian melodies. After an assault of metal, it bursts into a melodic, melancholic section as Tommy Rogers sings "feed me fear". "Ants of The Sky" and "White Walls", the longer tracks of the album, are possibly the best (hard to designate on a record so flawless), the former being their most eclectic song to date and never letting up on energy, the latter filled with a masterful balance of heaviness and melody, with the most emotional phrases and the greatest album ending imaginable. All the songs have distinct sections in it, while all fitting into the whole. The great part about it is with all the songs blending into each other, it just keeps going, and going, and going, and going, and never lets up till the epic aforementioned climax.

Overall, this album is not only a testimony that metal can be eclectic or creative, but also brutal and technical while being emotional at the same time. It contains elements of music that often appear together, but never before all at once. This album is essential for any metal fan, and I think anybody interested in listening to music for the joy of it should listen to it to hear the testimony of a band that makes music for the sheer joy of it and the ability to create.
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RuneWalsh2112 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
..while I should probably import my ;)
Negoba wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Maybe I should wait to import my review of this one.... :)

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