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 Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 11:00am by

There’s so much great new metal coming out right now that I’m completely overwhelmed by trying to listen to all of it. New releases from Scar Symmetry, Living Colour and Alice in Chains have dominated my playlist this past week, while I haven’t even really gotten the time to pay proper attention to the latest from Converge and Black Dahlia Murder. New releases from The Destro, Revocation, Dethklok and Devin Townsend are right around the corner, as is Between the Buried and Me’s latest The Great Misdirect. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few, too. Fuck my life. Did I really just say that? Fuck me for saying “fuck my life.” My life rules.

So, BT-fucking-BAM. “Obfuscation,” a song of which we posted a live clip a couple of weeks back, is available in full at VictoryMetal.com or via the nifty widget below. Just enter in your email address, and ye shall have new BTBAM. Bam! (Word to the wise: I had trouble getting the widget to work in Firefox)

One-listen version: everything is more “er” than Colors. Proggier, heavier, melodic-er, ambitious-er. I’ll hold off on saying “better” until I hear the full record. The Great Misdirect drops October 27th.

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  • FranticDav

    For your concern, just put in a bullshit e-mail, like disregardthatisuckcocks@metalsucksisforpussies.com

  • Jimmy

    You just made my fucking day, metalsucks.

  • builtforsin

    Pretty good tune. All of the “progressive” stuff takes me a few listens to get into it.

  • bloodtasteslikeshit

    This band never ceases to impress.

  • vikingfromhell890

    Yup, more concrete evidence that they are one of the best bands around.

  • http://www.playlist.com/andjustice andjustice

    Jiiiiiiiizzzzzzzz. Spppplloooooooggge. Aaaaaaaaahyeeeeeeaaaaah.

  • Dan Marsicano

    Loved the new tune. I was a little surprised at how aggressive it was, especially with Rogers harsh vocals. Looking forward to checking out the rest of the album next month.

  • Zoker

    I’m not a fan of them but I gotta say this new song is not bad at all.

  • ab12

    i thought colors was good but still pretty overrated, this sounds better imo

  • mahkiavelli

    Holy crap – that fucking rules. I’m seeing them in 2 weeks open for In Flames. I wonder how many songs could they possibly play in an opening act capacity?

    • slave_screams

      They plan to play 2 new ones, Obfuscation and Disease, injury, madness – both are 10mins long – this is going to be colours + dream theater + pink floyd from what I have heard so far – and that’s a good thing

  • DemonicLemming

    Hm. Another album to pick up.

    Is the new Scar Symmetry out retail now, or just advance listening for lucky fucks like you? I really want to see how the new dudes do (fingers crossed but not holding my breath).

  • Gospel of Madness

    This band is so overrated it makes me sick.

    • taog36

      Yeah theres a name for that, its your fucking retarded.

      • Ryan De La Rosa

        I dont think its that they are overrated it’s that they suck dream theaters dick.

        • http://Vivus Vivus

          Dream Theater isn’t the only progressive metal band in existence, the fact that you related BTBAM to them proves how uninformed you are. Stop listening to the radio and lurk more. I’d bet I can name at least twice as many progressive metal bands as you can.

          • Civeta Dei

            Please do. I need a bigger repetoire of prog bands to listen to.

  • http://edsmusicreview.blogspot.com Edward Wilfred

    Kick ass. I got a little gojira vibe towards the end.

  • Me

    I think colors is a masterpiece. Initially, this first song seems very dense. So many riffs flying everywhere but doesn’t feel like it has the cohesion of white walls. But, we’ll see.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/Richaod/ Richaod

    Not saying this isn’t awesome, and not that it really matters, but since when do you need to input an email address just to STREAM a song?

  • Clit Banger

    Admittedly, I’ve always dismissed this band before even listening to them because the name kind of turned me off. After listening to this song, I’m actually kind of impressed… don’t really like the vocals, but the song is a pretty good slab of progressive metal. I don’t think they’d be able to make a full album of songs diverse enough to keep it fresh/interesting, but I’ll definitely give them a chance now.

    • Tom

      dude listen to Colors, if you dont think the band is diverse from this song, that album will completely change your mind.

    • MoonSnake

      the vocals will grow on you. by the end of colors i loved his vocals

  • iceman

    hellllllll yeahhhhhh!!!

  • Timzee

    Yeah

  • http://www.myspace.com/whitearmsofathena Josh

    Listen to it 3 times, maybe 4. Blaze between 2 and 3

  • Kye

    Fucking love it.

  • PD

    No words can describe this. Except those.

  • Rob

    this is amazing. i really need to figure out how to rip it out of the widget so i can listen to it in my car

    • troe

      Might make the quality a little choppy (depends on your play back quality, unfortunately), but you could open up Audacity, GarageBand or something of that nature and have it recording while the song is playing through the speakers. If there isn’t much background noise, you may be lucky enough to have a listen-able recording.

      \o/

  • Malacoda

    This is pretty good. Nothing sticks out, but then again, I had to listen to Colors a few times before I really fell in love with it. I really dig the harmonic minor wah solo over bass solo in the middle, that’s killer.

  • Spwee

    got no credit for the email =[

  • LilalCFH

    That drummer is stupid good.

  • LilalCFH

    The song might be a little too “er” for my taste, but I really do need the whole album to be sure.

    The last half was fuckin’ great, but that lead line over top of everything for 128 bars killed the first few minutes of the song.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Fountain/1391790047 Brandon Fountain

    So. Fucking. Happy.

  • DidgeryDoo

    I recently became hooked on Colors. I didn’t get at first that they had a very specific kind of style. I wasn’t listening closely at first and was turned off by vocals. I LOVE Colors now and the two new songs I’ve heard have me really anticipating the new album.