BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
Colors II
SUMERIAN
North Carolina’s progressive extremists rekindle a radiant classic
COLORS IS HEAVY metal’s Rubik’s Cube: a vibrant puzzle so mind-bending that it’s addictive. It was formulated by a band who loved jazz and the avantgarde as much as they did Cannibal Corpse. After five years of feeling too experimental for headbangers and too rowdy for prog, Between The Buried And Me declared, “Fuck it!”, composing the most indulgent maximalism they could. The result was ambitious to the point that no one has emulated it since, cramming innumerable harmonies, death metal blasts and ebullient melodies into 64 minutes. Not even its creators have recreated such magic – although this sequel comes tantalisingly close.
is a mirror of the original, exploring the same spectrum in sequence. commences with, then screeches to life in a tech-death fury. is just as head-scratching as Sun , incorporating banjos while samples span from Saturday-morning cartoons to Yello’s . Finally, stands in for : a quarter-hour of erraticism concluding with flurrying guitar leads.
