There are progressive metal fans, metalcore fans — and then there are Between The Buried and Me people. The GRAMMY-nominated American quintet’s unique take on extreme music, informed heavily by prog, hardcore, and melodic death metal, has attracted a specific breed of fan for whom the buck stops with BTBAM. This diehard following has made them an underground fixture of some notoriety, whom listeners will endlessly talk, argue over, and praise with a fervency that they just don’t give to other artists. “I think it’s a snowball effect,” says frontman Tommy Giles Roger, Jr., when asked about the band’s appeal. “I have to look at it like a fan of music. There are bands that I listen to where, once you’re into an album, they’re throwing a curveball at you. There’s alway...
