What are your thoughts on this band? Personally I think they fuckin rock, took me just two listens of ALASKA and I was hooked. But I have noticed a lot of folks I talk to just think they are a little too eratic and won't give em a chance. I mean they are from Winston-Salem, NC that has to at least garner a little bit of love. Yes, No?

2/27/2008 4:05:14 PM

Shit sounds hardcore, b.

2/27/2008 4:05:39 PM

from a technical standpoint they are impressive, but i do not much care for them musically. i don't like metal as is, and i don't really think they bring much to the table other than the fact that, instrumentally, their songs are difficult to play.

2/27/2008 4:07:19 PM

omg omg omg

btbam has my <3

2/27/2008 4:07:34 PM

ibt "ive been listening to them since 2003 so im better than you"

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2/27/2008 4:10:54 PM

I find their lyrics shallow and pedantic

2/27/2008 4:11:10 PM

i havent been listening to them that long. ill admit it.

but daaayyyyum

they're sex. great sex.

2/27/2008 4:11:28 PM

I like their older stuff better, just cant get into the new stuff.

2/27/2008 4:12:13 PM

i used to work with the bass player at whole foods.
they're just another raleigh band to me.

2/27/2008 4:13:09 PM

Quote :

"i used to work with the bass player at whole foods. they're just another raleigh band to me. "

That is makin money while you uploadin to youtube.

2/27/2008 4:14:58 PM

i get boners when i listen to them.

they are one of my favorite bands.

2/27/2008 4:20:59 PM

obligatory:

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

anything you like isn't as good as what i like, because only i have heard of my favorite band!!!1

RAWR RAWR RAWR

2/27/2008 4:23:20 PM

Quote :

"That is makin money while you uploadin to youtube."

and?

2/27/2008 4:24:55 PM

haha.

music snobs ftl.

2/27/2008 4:25:33 PM

I'm not into the hardcore metal shit but I have listened to some of their stuff and it is pretty cool though, I just don't like all the screaming, not able to understand shit, vocals

2/27/2008 4:27:24 PM

^good point there. i will say this: they do it live very well.

2/27/2008 4:28:34 PM

self-titled.

everything else was lesser than.

2/27/2008 4:31:14 PM

I can see the point about the screaming vocals but it's just something you kinda get used to. They fuckin own live and the degree of difficulty is really impressive to me being a semi-musican. I am just a fan of really heavy shit...then a little break and some melodic stuff ala TOOl. And the lyrics are actually really good. Not your typical I want to rape a dead corpse and then shit on the family sort of vibe. I would give them a read.

2/27/2008 4:34:27 PM

this board is actually the btbam street team

/entertainment section

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2/27/2008 4:35:32 PM

and while I also agree that the first album was the dick, I am not ready to say it's better than the latest. Colors is just wonderful. But Mordecai is still my favorite song and its not on either album

2/27/2008 4:36:00 PM

Quote :

"WAS THE DICK"

2/27/2008 4:38:31 PM

FUCK IT.

Glass Casket FTW.

/thread

2/27/2008 4:44:45 PM

Speaking of which

http://www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.php#pntourdates

I don't care much for Dream Theater, actually, but the other three get thumbs up.

2/27/2008 4:54:56 PM

Colors is sick, everything else they did is mediocre at best.



Colors is the only thing worthy of being on a tour with Opeth and DT.

2/27/2008 4:59:26 PM

Quote :

"I mean they are from Winston-Salem, NC that has to at least garner a little bit of love."

So are they from Winston-Salem or Garner? Your words confuse me.

2/27/2008 4:59:52 PM

Quote :

"mediocre at best"

someday im gonna need proof that you are capable of doing anything meaningful.

2/27/2008 5:02:42 PM

Colors is sick but I suggest you listen to Alaska again my friend. It is a wonderful album, Roboturner being my personal favorite on the album. And as for DT I still to this day can't fully appreciate them because I can't stand the lead singers voice. The musicians are absolutely amazing.. some of the best in the industry in my opinion as far as talent goes but I can't stand his voice. It's funny I say this because that is one of the main gripes people give me as far as BTBM goes. Regardless, Glass Prision is an amazing song.

2/27/2008 5:07:53 PM

^^ I meant garner as in receive

2/27/2008 5:09:19 PM

Kidding.

2/27/2008 5:09:35 PM

Alaska is my favorite and I always jam out to the cover album

2/27/2008 5:10:27 PM

they bore me.



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2/27/2008 5:10:31 PM

got ya. Sorry. new to the TWW game but not sarcasm, should have caught it

2/27/2008 5:10:43 PM

If anybody is interested in seeing these guys live they have two shows back to back in NC coming up April 9th and 10th. Greene Streets in G-Boro and Cat's Cradle. Gonna be at both for sure.

2/27/2008 5:12:22 PM

^^ I love the cover album too...especially the King Crimson and Floyd covers

2/27/2008 5:13:54 PM

nice triple post in 3 minutes. you're a terrible failias.



I'll admit the only other btbam cd's i have are Alaska and Silent Circus, but they don't stand out from any other band with those cds. Sure there are a ton of great riffs, but nothing on those cds varies enough to the point that Opeth or Dream Theater's music does. Theres probably 30 other progressive metalcore capable of writing some of those exact same things. Colors is different though, seems like alot more time was put into it.

don't get me wrong, Ad A Dglgmut is probably my favorite BTBAM song.


attn: CalledToArms

2/27/2008 5:20:30 PM

yeah I know still getting used to this shit (insert generic NOOB comment here) I see your point with the variations but shit DT changes time signatures and puts in stuff there that I have never heard any band do. I would like some suggestions on bands that could do the same stuff as BTBM. Always down for new music...it's been the same stuff for me lately. TOOL and BTBM stay in such a steady rotation around my way.

2/27/2008 5:25:35 PM

Candiria and Meshuggah

2/27/2008 5:29:04 PM

btbam changes time signatures way more than DT or Opeth.

the DT time signature changes rarely change the riff, theres just like an extra repeat or omission of the last few notes of the riff half of the time. See: Glass Prison. Half that song is the same shit over and over again with offbeats / syncopation. To give the effect of time changing.

2/27/2008 5:29:23 PM

Quote :

"Candiria and Meshuggah"

don't forget VOD - i have a vhs of VOD and candiria playing a show together
also,
the dillinger escape plan

2/27/2008 5:30:27 PM

Meshuggah is the tits. God damn I really like them too. The new album is very solid.

2/27/2008 5:32:06 PM

^agreed. new album is a return to form, imo.

2/27/2008 5:32:48 PM

well its about that time to smoke some chron and watch a little PTI.

2/27/2008 5:33:23 PM

they definitely returned to form with this one. Still waiting for another Suffer in Truth. Fuckin love that song more than most. And the whole Destroy Erase Improve album for that matter. Close to a masterpiece.

2/27/2008 5:35:38 PM

holy shit.


edit button.

2/27/2008 5:36:21 PM

see also: chaos collapse & none

2/27/2008 5:36:56 PM

absolutely. really dig "nothing" as well

2/27/2008 5:38:55 PM

they used to come into the whole foods where i worked alot

they were friends with one of the guys from beloved, he worked in the cafe lol

2/27/2008 5:50:34 PM

SHEVANEL CUT A FLIP.

end discussion.

2/27/2008 5:57:25 PM