Ever since their fourth album and magnum opus, Colors, Between The Buried And Me have been turning out strong progressive metal albums (with the Automata pair of particular note) – but haven’t quite managed to repeat the true magic in a bottle quality that this now 14-year old release struck. With that in mind, they revisit the mindset that brought about that seminal release with the forthcoming Colors II, out August 20 on Sumerian Records. Opening as its prior instalment did, Colors II starts with a piano and clean vocal lulling an unfamiliar listener into thinking this could be prog rock more akin to Muse rather than occasionally straying into the heaviest ends of the progressive metal spectrum. Aspects of the previous Colors that come to the fore swiftly are some of the more bizarre and...
