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PROG-METAL’S NEW YOUNG GIANTS: BTBAM AT NYC’s BLENDER THEATER ON HALLOFUCKINWEEN 2007

 Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 at 1:13pm by

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Cripples shouldn’t get so drunk before they leave the house. But despite my lack of gravity-confidence, I wasn’t missing this fucking show. After hearing about half of Between The Buried And Me‘s riconkulous new album, Colors, I knew I had to take the opportunity to see the live show – broken shoulder/Halloween or not; who gives a fuck? Get wasted and go…see…METAL.

So last Wednesday (All Hallow’s Eve), this guy imbibed a half bottle of whiskey and headed out to brave the not-so-creepiness. I’m sure in many crevices of the city evil-doers and maniacal mischief-makers must have been tearing it loose, but thankfully I avoided too much nonsense and rolled up to the venue about 10 minutes before BTBAM was to go on.

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In between bands, I sadly watched the aftermath of another fallen soldier as some poor dude was rushed to a downstairs couch to nurse what he would soon find out was a broken ankle…wack!@!%$ Later reports confirmed that despite his injury, that brave young man stuck around to check out the BTBAM madness, which I’m sure he was…ouch…happy about. Thank god for whiskey!

In working towards piecing together the hazy details of the night, one thing was absolutely for sure – BTBAM is a band that is furiously in control of both their instruments and their mammoth-sized concepts. These guys love the music of Opeth btbam - colors(and video games), and it shows in their melodic agressive/progressive sound, which does not shy away from either blast beats or soft vocal harmonies. They even go so far as to sporadically incorporate a few other varying (and totally unexpected) genres, such as swing, waltz, and country ho-down, and somehow it works pretty damn well. The random bursts of genre-switching are layered in so tightly, and they transition into the following (often brutal) parts with such ease, that it’s almost impossible to call out such kooky konceptual ideaz. The songs are just plain awesome.

When BTBAM go on the road again next Spring with Dream Theater, Opeth, and 3, get there early to see these burgeoning pioneers of the new new metal sound. Colors is truly the most adventurous metal album of the year, and perhaps the best as well. Aside from the Dethalbum, of course.

-KW

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  • Kye

    BTBAM’s recent tour was one of the best I’ve seen.

    And the fact that they’re about to tour with fucking Opeth…mmmmmm mmmmm, I can’t wait.

  • Wayne

    Spooky. I just took my first spin of “colors” this very day. I fucking love it. One of the year’s very best. Can’t wait to catch these guys on the big prog outing.

  • Ryd1ZZ

    Saw ‘em in San Diego, they sounded WAY good. Colors is orgasmic!

    Can’t wait to see them w/ OPETH \m/ (-_-) \m/

  • Seth

    I learned a valuable lesson when I [attempted] to see BTBAM in Worcester–when you REALLY REALLY REALLY want to see a band perform live, pony up the extra $5 service charge to buy tickets on line beforehand. I unfortunately found out the hard way, that I’m not the only one in the world that knows that BTBAM is fucking awesome. Although I blame this disaster entirely on myself, and BTBAM deserve to play to packed houses every show they play, its fucking BULLSHIT that they were playing the UPSTAIRS palladium, and selling it out before I could get there, while “Crapt” and “Cruel [to make me listen to them] were playing the almost entirely empty and spacious downstairs.

    My biggest regret really is not having a video of my own face when the doorman seriously asked me if I was there to see Trapt. I think I froze for a second, then vomitted in my mouth a little bit at the thought, then shook it off–only to find out that my heroes had sold out, at which time I vomitted in my mouth again, leaving it in there this time as punishment to myself. I hate Worcester.

  • Devin

    I too saw them in San Diego at the Soma… they were fuckin sick

    Except the hardcore dancers were being faggots, this chick in front of me got a back kick to the knee cap.

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