Between the Buried and Me

So Steely Dan and this...

Steely Dan, a progressive metal band called Between the Buried and Me, and a psychedelic punk band called The Mars Volta were the first three bands that I was really into because they could...

I had to pay attention.

I had to lock in-

The, the, the definition of rock is kind of, like, just odd nowadays too because, uh, like, how do you draw the line between rock and metal? In some cases it's really clear.

Like, if you're looking at, like, Between the Buried and Me and Foo Fighters.

It's very easy to say that one's...

You know, Foo Fighters is rock and Between the Buried and Me is metal.

Yeah.

But, like, what...

I feel like, uh, Era, bands like Era, Silent Planet have really genericized the genre to becoming something very boring, very predictable, very, uh, rinse and repeat.

I feel like, you know, a band like Between the Buried and Me are like...

They're kind of like the Dream Theater of progressive metalcore, if you think about it that way.

Uh, they really paved the way for progressive metalcore, and I feel like, um, no band is really inspired by Between the Buried and Me, which I find very sad.

There was like this band called Pangea that, that was around a couple years ago, but they since disbanded because no one listens to them.

And I feel like a lot of modern metal ba- or modern metal listeners in general are very Octane-pilled, where they only listen to bands like Bad Omens, and they don't really consider any other progressive stuff because it's too much or whatever.

It's doing things that are avoiding cliches.

So like the, the bands I was listening...

Transdermal Celebration.

Between the Buried and Me, the entire Anatomy of cover album, just to name a few.

So there you go.

Taco.

for what you do

and yeah and work with yeah and and that invariably has led to um some other things like so obviously we're doing the shinobi show tonight shinobi show tonight And then tomorrow we're with Between the Buried and Me in Sydney as well.

Yeah, nice.

And then before Big Sound, we've still got another, our first like national tour with Plinny.

We got to remember to bring that.

as we get into the anatomy of Between the Buried and Me.

Yes.

Honestly, though, the 20% fuck around attitude is the only way to get what's happening on this record.

This is different than anything I listened to.

I need to know more about this.

So yeah, I went to Criminal Records back when they were in the small location and on CD I bought, not necessarily proud or not proud of this, Alaska by Between the Buried and Me, I'll Take Care of You, the covers record by Mark Lanigan, still great, and High as Hell by the band Nashville Pussy.

Two for

And Matt would be like, I don't, I don't think I'm, I don't think I like him, you know? And they'd be like, well, let's take them out again.

So then they'd take me out again and they'd come back and then, matt would go to jb yeah man he's growing on me i think he's a good guy you know and then jb would be like i don't think i like him you know so this went on back and forth for a while until um we went on tour with uh between the buried and me and my old band had played with bt band because they're from north carolina so my old band she walks in beauty had opened up for BT Bam at New Brooklyn Tavern, uh, a few times.

So Tommy Rogers knew me.

And so when we went on tour with them, um, Tommy kind of got me the gig because at the very end of the tour, he said, Hey, like this guy's great.

And I'm seeing all the musicians I follow and rock and metal and stuff coming out to talk about them.

And, I know the Between the Buried and Me guys, which is just one of our favorite bands ever.

Those guys were all wicked close with ETID and had been posting stuff about Andy and stuff, so...

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