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Topic: BTBAM

Posted By: PrognosticMind
Subject: BTBAM
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 08:13

Anyone else love this band? I've listened to them since Colors, and saw them live on the Great Misdirect tour in Boston - but I took somewhat of a break and almost entirely forgot about this band.

The last couple of weeks, I've been giving TGM another spin and MAN, is this the perfect blend of metal and progressive elements for me. Colors is like brand new for me again, and I can't stop spinning both records.

Thoughts? Opinions? Reviews?

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Posted By: TradeMark0
Date Posted: December 09 2014 at 10:14

I think I liked Alaska the best. The songwriting in the later albums would get would get unnecessarily complicated IMO. While I don't have a problem with the horrendous vocals and the ridiculously heavy sound these guys have, putting together in a 20 min song with a bunch of time signature changes is just too much for me.

I'm not really a fan of most post '95 metal. Too many metal bands trying to sound louder and heavier and too many of them trying to be prog. Experimental often meant unlistenable, symphonic metal was just cheese, and any meaningful lyricism that existed some thrash metal was long gone in favor of gore, pseudo intellectualism, and cheesy tales of "epic battles". I do, however, like some of the stoner, doom, and alt metal bands.