Between the Buried and Me "Coma Ecliptic"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Metal/Rock Opera
Label: Metal Blade Records
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: July 10, 2015
Tracklist: 
1. Node (3:31)
2. The Coma Machine (7:35)
3. Dim Ignition (2:16)
4. Famine Wolf (6:50)
5. King Redeem/Queen Serene (6:58)
6. Turn on the Darkness (8:26)
7. The Ectopic Stroll (7:02)
8. Rapid Calm (7:59)
9. Memory Palace (9:54)
10. Option Oblivion (4:22)
11. Life in Velvet (3:38)

Line-up: 
Dan Briggs – bass
Blake Richardson – drums, percussion
Tommy Giles Rogers – vocals, keyboards
Paul Waggoner – guitars, vocals (6)
Dustie Waring – guitars

Description/Reviews: 

Seemingly in spite of the increasingly divided fan opinion regarding the group’s musical trajectory over the years, North Carolina’s shining sons Between the Buried and Me have become one of the best selling and most influential acts in progressive metal. Throughout their fifteen year career thus far, the band’s hardcore roots have slowly eroded away, showing an affinity for classic prog rock in the vein of Queen, Pink Floyd, and King Crimson (which everyone should have seen coming after the band covered all three for The Anatomy Of). This inevitability has been hinted at since Alaska, with the band adopting conceptual themes, epic-length tracks, and a subtle flair for the theatrical. This maturation comes to a head on Coma Ecliptic, the band’s seventh original studio album, as a cosmic rock opera that follows a man entering a self-induced coma in order to explore his past lives in the hope of finding something better.
...Coma Ecliptic will undoubtedly face this same sort of scrutiny as a record self-identified as a predominately clean-sung rock opera citing influences from acts such as Genesis and The Who. However, while Coma Ecliptic is a considerable departure for Between the Buried and Me, it’s not entirely out of character. Coma Ecliptic occupies an entirely different headspace than Parallax II: Future Sequence, but the band’s unmistakable signature sound — and ultimately, the experience everyone expected — remains throughout. This is a culmination of years of preparing for what, apparently, the band have been wanting to do all along, but have not had the courage or confidence to pull off directly. Now that they’ve worked themselves up to the task, the results are glorious.

 Read the full review by Jimmy Rowe at heavyblogisheavy.com

Media/Samples 
The Coma Machine
Memory Palace

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