Between the Buried and Me
Vernon Meigs
Issue date: 11/20/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
"Obfuscation," the second track from the album, was released as a stream on the Victory Records webpage. As stated by the band in their music page, the song was a heavy and intricate entity of various styles with a spark of melody in the chorus and the lead guitars.
"Disease, Injury, Madness" is a playground for diversified styles especially, with pop-style melodies clashing with a brutal metalcore edge, and a little of the country twang stuck in there. "Fossil Genera" almost seems out of place from the album altogether, judging from the beginning of the song without a careful listen; the singing style seems almost like Alice Cooper or perhaps King Diamond with an almost circus-like eeriness.
The fifth track, the slower "Desert of Song," would take many prior fans by surprise due to its evocation of a western setting complete with a sun and a cactus. The sixth and final track, "Swim to the Moon," can go down in the band's repertoire as perhaps their most complex and longest epic to date, running at 17:54. Even when weighing the technical and extreme metal characteristics, this is perhaps one of the most melodic metal offerings of the CD, and an excellent closer to the album.
Between the Buried and Me have matured quite a bit since they began their career, and they constantly prove to be one of the bands out there that deserve recognition for their work.
"Disease, Injury, Madness" is a playground for diversified styles especially, with pop-style melodies clashing with a brutal metalcore edge, and a little of the country twang stuck in there. "Fossil Genera" almost seems out of place from the album altogether, judging from the beginning of the song without a careful listen; the singing style seems almost like Alice Cooper or perhaps King Diamond with an almost circus-like eeriness.
The fifth track, the slower "Desert of Song," would take many prior fans by surprise due to its evocation of a western setting complete with a sun and a cactus. The sixth and final track, "Swim to the Moon," can go down in the band's repertoire as perhaps their most complex and longest epic to date, running at 17:54. Even when weighing the technical and extreme metal characteristics, this is perhaps one of the most melodic metal offerings of the CD, and an excellent closer to the album.
Between the Buried and Me have matured quite a bit since they began their career, and they constantly prove to be one of the bands out there that deserve recognition for their work.
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