Denver Max
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If you like metal, AT ALL, or want to get into metal, or don't like metal but appreciate bands that break genre barriers down, you must pick this album up.
Between the Buried and Me as a band up until this point to me had always been this band where I'd listen to an album like "The Silent Circus" or a song off Alaska like "Selkies" and say to myself, wow, this band can put amazing riffs, rediculous solos, strange melodic intros, and very heavy vocals together to make an interesting sound. And I generally enjoyed this combination, but they weren't a band I turned to often after I had been through the albums a couple times.
With Colors, the table has completely turned. Between The Buried and Me as I have read is being contemporarily considered the Pink Floyd of Metal/Metalcore. Colors is a good example of this. They add just the right amounts of thrash, melody, even clean vocals this time, and just don't stop.
I'd even recommend ripping the album to your computer as a single file, because there is very little dividing the mere 8 songs apart from each other. None are conventional, none will ever fit in a prog playlist of mine, but together they make just over an hour of sheer enjoyment.
Sometimes with thrash, especially for people who don't listen to it regularly, it can be alienating because it is so intense. My ears sometimes tune it out a long thrash album shows up in my iTunes because if I'm not aptly concentrating on the music, I can't subconsciously appreciate it. With Colors, there is just enough metal for the album to still be predominately a metal album, but it is also the perfect amount to appreciate both the metal itself and the transitions by which the metal is coming in and out of your headphones.
My favorite part of many songs/albums are buildups, and the transition from the second to last track Viridian to the final track White Walls is an eye-opener and an adrenaline rush.
This might be my favorite album of 2007. I appreciate Darkest Hour's latest release for different reasons, but this BTBAM album is so well arranged (and recorded too) that it will be hard to top.
Between the Buried and Me as a band up until this point to me had always been this band where I'd listen to an album like "The Silent Circus" or a song off Alaska like "Selkies" and say to myself, wow, this band can put amazing riffs, rediculous solos, strange melodic intros, and very heavy vocals together to make an interesting sound. And I generally enjoyed this combination, but they weren't a band I turned to often after I had been through the albums a couple times.
With Colors, the table has completely turned. Between The Buried and Me as I have read is being contemporarily considered the Pink Floyd of Metal/Metalcore. Colors is a good example of this. They add just the right amounts of thrash, melody, even clean vocals this time, and just don't stop.
I'd even recommend ripping the album to your computer as a single file, because there is very little dividing the mere 8 songs apart from each other. None are conventional, none will ever fit in a prog playlist of mine, but together they make just over an hour of sheer enjoyment.
Sometimes with thrash, especially for people who don't listen to it regularly, it can be alienating because it is so intense. My ears sometimes tune it out a long thrash album shows up in my iTunes because if I'm not aptly concentrating on the music, I can't subconsciously appreciate it. With Colors, there is just enough metal for the album to still be predominately a metal album, but it is also the perfect amount to appreciate both the metal itself and the transitions by which the metal is coming in and out of your headphones.
My favorite part of many songs/albums are buildups, and the transition from the second to last track Viridian to the final track White Walls is an eye-opener and an adrenaline rush.
This might be my favorite album of 2007. I appreciate Darkest Hour's latest release for different reasons, but this BTBAM album is so well arranged (and recorded too) that it will be hard to top.
