This album is my second favorite of all time (only surpassed by Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3). Why? First, let me try to explain the main idea behind this album. Between the Buried and Me plays a very technical and heavy style of metal that alternates quickly between hardcore, death metal, thrash, progressive rock, and lighter parts that recall Radiohead or Counting Crows. This is an awesome idea but it can be done very wrong. Luckily BTBAM refined their approach to this, becoming more and more focused with each record before attempting their most ambitious project yet (this album), a 64-minute record that runs together like one song the whole way through. Although inevitably not every section of this "song" is perfect, BTBAM know their shit and use those parts to let you relax before dropping the next jaw-dropping riff, breakdown, melody, etc. upon the listener. The music has a feel of a constant race to the finish, giving the album a breakneck pace that compensates for its length. People who are not already into metal will not like this album, and the vocals are a bit inaccessible for some. But anybody who wants to test their tolerance should give this album a few listens. If it has the right affect on you, it will change your understanding of music.
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