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Readers' Choice

READERS’ CHOICE: THE “FOR FANS OF BTBAM” CD STICKER EDITION

 Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 4:00pm by
Consider this article the online equivalent of those stickers on CDs that say “For Fans Of…”. If you like BTBAM, give all of these bands a shot! Thanks as always to our loyal readers for sending these suggestions in; these are the cream of the crop.
  • Picture It In Ruins: The band’s guitarist Luke Friebel asked us not too be turned off by the fact that these guys are from Wyoming. Why would we care about that? Being from Wyoming is actually pretty cool; I can’t imagine they have a scorching hot metal scene there so the fact that these guys even exist is neat in and of itself. The band is pretty good too, even if it’s blatantly obvious how much they love BTBAM.
  • Dead At the Scene: A bit more core-y than BTBAM or the above, but still definitely BTBAM-influenced. Dig their video for “Sharktopus” above. It’s all artsy and stuff. I think Axl would like it.
  • The Viking: Probably the least overtly BTBAM influenced of these three bands, but there’s still plenty of proggy metal mixed with core to go around and plenty of epicness along with it. Lots of extended instrumental passages and winding, story-telling solos… how can you fight that? [Thanks: Benjamin Petraitis]

-VN

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  • http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/ Alkahest

    This is relevant to my interests.

  • Driven9

    thanks, i actually really like all 3.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

    all of them are pretty awesome
    too bad none of them are signed

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Wilmot/1177765489 Ian Wilmot

      im liking the viking the most of them

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Trowbridge/178300765 Robert Trowbridge

        They are some pretty cool guys. Met them through a friend. They put on a good show, usually leading to Nate (the vocalist) taking his shirt off and hanging from the rafters if there are any within reach. lol

  • Brickwalker

    Check out Called To Arms

  • Jonathan

    Best modern-day version of Phantom of the Opera yet. And it’s BTBAM influenced? How can this get any better?

  • loganarchy

    By god that band Picture It In Ruins sounds EXACTLY like btbam. I think they’re making some sort of parody or something. Seriously.

    If btbam didn’t exist, I’d probably follow this band or something.

  • BASSQUATCH

    I actually was able to catch Picture It In Ruins at a local venue last night. The resemblance to BTBAM is uncanny (in fact, before their first song was over I told my buddy about how much I think they sound like BTBAM), but they’re still an amazing band.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Pantozzi/1255231400 Chris Pantozzi

    That music video posted was laughably bad.

  • Jake

    I’m from the same town as Picture It In Ruins. The doods can shred fa sho, and Luke is actually the vocalist not the guitarst. but great article none the less

    • Jake

      By the way, every one should listen to the song Recess(ion) by Picture It In Ruins. Amazing song and fantastic lyrics. doesn’t remotely remind me of BTBAM

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-J-Mock/1296912271 Daniel J. Mock

    The only time one of those stickers worked out for me was for All Shall Perish: The Price of Existence (For fans of Darkest Hour, BTBAM, & Dying Fetus.) I still consider it #6 in my top 10 of Albums that can be listened to from beginning to end.

  • fubar

    Well i respect everyone opinions, but i listened to the youtube video posted above and it really doesnt connect with btbam(i think). well i dont have much room to talk but ive been listening to them for couple of months now even though i live in charlotte,nc. i worked my way from the great misdirect down in order i dont know why it just happenened. my favorite was great misdirect and colors. the two albums had a huge “cornucopia” of textures(hahah listening to cynic textures. what are the odds), rhythyms , and styles. i tend to enjoy music that has variety and just stick to one certain way of playing. it keeps my mind entertained in an A.D.D kind of way. but back to the point. if the other bands listed sound close to the video posted. then im very disappointed with there “you may like this band” selection. I dont mean to be disrespectful but you guys at metalsucks should knows betters tos dos this tos a great bands as betweens buried and mes

  • Allen

    wow Picture It In Ruins are already gettin attention from metalsucks, thats awesome!! been good friends with those guys for years. their all great dudes, way chill. Everybody should really give this bad a chance, they get better everytime I see them. amazing live performance too, definately a band to watch out for!