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Originally Posted by Qwertyy
Colors by Between the Buried and Me
Had a friend tell me to check this one out and it took my awhile to get around to it, but I'm pleasantly surprised with it after a few listens.
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That is a great album. I was hooked on that when it came out back in '07. Actually saw them live supporting it, and they were freaking amazing. They didn't play the longer, proggy sections of the songs from
Colors, and kept it more streamlined, which was kind of a bummer, but they were so intense and energetic that I can't fault them for the decision.
Their singer is a hell of a frontman as well, and plays the keyboards like he's on a pogo stick, and when he switches to singing on the mic he has this weird thing where he does something like jazz hands, and just kind of spazzes out. It was a very impressive performance and also the first time I ever got in a mosh pit, so I have a lot of nostalgia for BtBaM.
I haven't listened to much past the album after that,
The Great Misdirect, but it's possibly even better. It's sort of like Rush's
2112 vs.
Hemispheres: not as wild, but better put together. I love the really weird moments and turn-on-a-dime transitions of
Colors, but the disjointed nature of the music can't help but flow kind of awkwardly; whereas
The Great Misdirect isn't as eclectic and off-the-wall, but it's flow feels much more natural, and the metal moments lean more toward progressive, but still extreme melodeath, which I feel they do better than the brutal mathcore of previous albums, and also meshes with the melodic prog metal and whatnot that they mix in.
I probably dig
Colors a bit more, just because it's ultra-weird personality just grabs you by the nuts and forces you to bask in its glory, but I'd still say that
The Great Misdirect has the edge in pure quality.
Probably the closest to
Colors-esque weird moment, and it's still much less self-consciously quirky.