Between The Buried And Me - Between The Buried And Me

Between the Buried and Me is another American band termed as "progressive" merely for their obtuse perseverance in delivering a stream of arbitrary movements into each of their overlong songs that prevents any from being coherent or satisfying in any way. On the positive side, the band tackles the diverse styles of extreme death metal, hardcore and emo with surprising talent, but the resulting mess casts a worrying doubt over whether they should have opted to pursue one of these styles rather than attempt to merge them in such a forced and mostly incompatible manner. There's simply too much going on in each song, from hardcore yelling and death metal ...  Read the complete review