Between the Buried and Me

Between the Buried and Me is an American heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. They recently announced their move to Metal Blade Records, on which they released their first EP entitled The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues on April 12, 2011. Around the same time, Victory Records announced the release of a greatest hits album as a 3 disc set.

This is a band I have been listening to quite a bit lately. Well, more specifically the "Prequel to the Sequel" track quite a bit. Its a damn good song!

Prequel to the Sequel:



Check them out if you havent already, its like a hardcore Led Zepplin or the Death Metal version of Tool.

Behold... The Arctopus

"Behold... The Arctopus is an Instrumental Experimental Metal band from Brooklyn, New York, United States." One person writes that they are "the absolute extremes of technical and rhythmic complexity", which might be true... but its still listenable. It isn't so beyond normality that it becomes white noise.  Yes, its complex, but its not like some "Speedcore" that ramps beyond 300bpm to make it a mess of... well... noise.  Besides, some of the song titles suggest they are not taking themselves seriously beyond musical skill.

Canada:



You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Space Attack Turtle:



Thanks to thenitefalls for reminding me of Avant-Garde Metal with the Unexpect post.