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"Excellent second part of the conceptual "Automata" and successful bet for Between The Buried And Me to make its progressive metal more affordable while preserving its originality and sophistication."
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As planned, Between The Buried And Me delivers the second part of its double album "Automata" four months after the release of the first part. If "Automata I" hadn't totally convinced us, we were waiting for the next part to judge the whole work.
While "Automata I" began with the striking 'Condamned To The Gallows', which set the tone for an album that was easier to approach than usual, fairly direct in its construction and spontaneous in the energy deployed, and ended with an epic 'Blot', 'The Proverbial Bellow' opens this second part with more than thirteen minutes of impressively masterful progressive metal. We have a succession of dynamic riffs, a balanced arrangement of multiple complex sequences with bipolar moods, a real evolution throughout the title with its resting phases and feverish outbreaks and a harmonic quality that passes through some beautiful melodic breakthroughs and a solid variety of Tommy Rogers' vocals. From the interlude to the festive atmosphere of 'Glide' with his accordion and piano, we discover a dimension that was absent from the first record, the theatricality.
It unfolds completely in a jubilant 'Voice Of Trespass' in which we find the overflowing fertility of the quintet, carried by a Tommy Rogers as a perfect performer, with its gypsy jazz sounds, its avant-garde grandiloquence, its technical virtuosity and its sharp contrasts embodied by the final death metal part. Paradoxically, the listener has just swallowed two particularly demanding progressive metal blocks with disconcerting ease, which tends to prove the great fluidity of the writing of Between The Buried And Me in this "Automata II". The final 'The Grid' only confirms this observation with a model of limpidity which declines a brilliant melodic theme under several tonalities, from the most incandescent metalcore to the most soothing folk through some electro adornments and ends up in a rise of power with subtle and refined emotional intensity punctuated by a sublime solo.
The initial idea of releasing two short albums at a different interval has not always been a success, we think of Coheed And Cambria in 2012 and 2013, but we must admit that in the case of "Automata", the gamble is won. The pitfall could have been a heterogeneous work but Between The Buried And Me gives birth to two albums that complement each other. The Americans astonish by their ability to have been able to make their music evolve by making it more accessible without denying their profound nature of being constantly in search of originality and sophistication. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. The Proverbial Bellow - 13:16
02. Glide - 2:13
03. Voice of Trespass - 7:58
04. The Grid - 9:45
LINEUP:
Blake Richardson: Batterie
Dan Briggs: Basse
Dustie Waring: Guitares
Paul Waggoner: Guitares
Tommy Rogers: Chant / Claviers
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