History YMMV / BetweenTheBuriedAndMe

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: While the self titled, ''The Silent Circus'', and ''Coma Ecliptic'' aren't no slouches, ''Alaska'', ''Colors'', and ''Parallax II'' are definitely big highlights in their music catalog.

* BrokenBase: Primarily between the fans of their older, more uniformly metalcore sound on their eponymous debut album and ''The Silent Circus'' and the fans of the more progressive and experimental ''Colors'', ''The Great Misdirect'', ''Hypersleep Dialogues'' EP, and ''Future Sequence''. ''Alaska'' serves as a dividing line and is generally well-liked by both groups.
** Even the more prog-oriented section of the fanbase seems broken on one particular album: ''The Great Misdirect''. Depending on who you ask, it's either one of their best albums or one of their worst.

* GrowingTheBeard: '''TWICE'''. The self entitled was usual metalcore, but then ''The Silent Circus'' showcased the band's rather impressive MindScrew style in a more prog-like feel. And then was amped up perfectly with ''Alaska'' as well, shredding metalcore elements.

* MemeticMutation: '''WOBSESSION!!!'''

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: It's raining, It's raining, IT'S RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIN!

* NightmareFuel: While not a pants pissing band, Between the Buried and Me ''does'' have some very creepy moments in their music, in particular Tommy's very chaotic and screechy vocals on ''The Silent Circus''.

--> ''[[MonsterClown Clowns]] now appear''\\

* {{Narm}}: '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y3TQcp2t5s WOBSESSION.]]'''

* TearJerker: They have several, but their cover of Music/CountingCrows' "Colorblind", which was ''already'' a TearJerker in its original version, particularly stands out. "Silent Flight Parliament" from ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence'' also qualifies, partially because of the DownerEnding and partially because of the music.

* FaceOfTheBand: A 50/50 split between Tommy Rogers and Paul Waggoner. It really depends on who you ask.

** ''Future Sequence'' is also fairly polarizing. It's either an excellent comeback from ''Hypersleep Dialogues'' and their best album next to ''Colors'', or it's a collection of lazy, disjointed bits and pieces that they just slapped together and called songs and the point where the band truly demonstrated that they ran out of good ideas a long time ago.

* SeasonalRot: ''The Great Misdirect'' often seems to get this treatment from the fans. Many thought the band set the bar too high with ''Colors'' and much of the album just sounded like leftovers from the ''Colors'' sessions, not offering anything new. This sentiment also extended to ''Hypersleep Dialogues'', and, depending on who you ask, ''Future Sequence'' is either where they catapulted themselves out of this or a further descent into it. Of course, ''The Great Misdirect'' and ''Hypersleep Dialogues'' both still have plenty of fans.

** "Bloom". Dear god, "Bloom". [[spoiler: Prospect 1 sinks to the bottom of the sea, where his oxygen is removed and he's forced to dance by Queen Sea, the manifestation of the sea, gets his oxygen back, and floats back to the surface. Oh, and it may or may not have been AllJustADream.]]

* VidicatedByHistory: ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence'' was very polarizing upon release, being seen as either their best album since ''Colors'' or one of their worst albums and a further descent into the SeasonalRot started by ''The Great Misdirect''. But in the years since, reception towards it from the fans has been more positive, often seen as one of their most consistent and satisfying records and one of their most mature and fully realized works. It helps that the band have stood by it, and the decision to play the album in its entirety a second time in 2023 (a full ten years after the initial tour) to celebrate its 10th anniversary has certainly helped, with the initial tour for said album considered to be one of the band's best tours.

* ToughActToFollow: The general consensus agrees that ''The Great Misdirect'' isn't a bad album, and actually has one of the band's best known songs (specifically "Swim to the Moon"). Same can be said with ''Coma Ecliptic'' which came after the ''incredibly'' hyped and praised ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence''.

** "btbam's suicide note" [[note]]A screenshot from an interview with Dustie Waring in regards to a "setlist" that mostly consisted of "Selkies: The Endless Obsession", an intermission of "Laser Speed" and an encore of "White Walls". Dustie went as far as to call it his "worst nighmare".[[/note]]

** The concept of ''The Parallax'' is pretty terrifying in regards of ParanoiaFuel, considering the Night Owls have ''worked from here, they have for centuries...''
** The music video for "The Coma Machine", again an example of the band's MindScrew elements: A man wakes up in a bed in a warehouse to find his own body in a hospital gurney as he's being monitored by a machine. The rest of the video goes into...weirdness, such as [[spoiler: [[NothingIsScarier a figure who's face causes the man to recoil in shock]], A noose which the man hangs the figure with, and the sole fact the man [[DrivenToSuicide kills his own self]] by turning off the machine, causing himself to convulse in a creepy manner]].

* SeasonalRot: ''The Great Misdirect'' often seems to get this treatment from the fans. Many thought the band set the bar too high with ''Colors'' and much of the album just sounded like leftovers from the ''Colors'' sessions, not offering anything new. This sentiment also extended to ''Hypersleep Dialogues'', and, depending on who you ask, ''Future Sequence'' is either where they catapulted themselves out of this or a further descent into it.

''[[FamousLastWords Tonight is our death!]]''\\

** PULL THIS ROTTING FLESH OVER THE BONE ONE LAST TIME

** Their decision to only play songs from ''Colors'' onwards live also brought this about. Some people just saw it as a mere formality based on how little they've been playing earlier material to begin with, understood their reasoning, and had no problem with it, while others were ''pissed'' about it and saw it as a slap in the face to older fans (the band did clarify that "Selkies" wasn't going anywhere; additionally, "Mordecai" has been played at least once since then and the second half of "Backwards Marathon" has showed up on the setlist of their late 2015 US tour) but that's about it).

* EarWorm: ''I'm floating towards the sun... The sun of nothing...''
** "This is all we have... when we die/It's what's left of us... when we die"
** "Jet propulsion dis-en-gage...dancing towards our future...a future worth nothing...a future towards nothing..."
** "My last exhale... is purple smoke.../Knees crash down on... velvet robes..."
** "Focus on melody, the sounds under my eyes..."
*** "LIVE IN THE NAME!!! OF!!!! LIVE IN THE NAME OF THE GHOOOOOOST!!!!"
** "Move the flesh over this rot-ten bone, one more day..."
** "I can't heeear a thiiiing, these waaaves crash faaaaaster; I can't seeee a thiiiing, these arms grab for wonnnnnderrr..."

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Yeah, if Tommy Giles Rogers isn't one of the coolest names you've ever heard, you've got to be crazy.

%%And why are they the most agreed upon? This is a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample as written.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: Downplayed example, but the most common complaint regarding ''Automata'' is the short length of each half. The two records together are only 68:32 long (''Automata I'' is 35:17 and ''Automata II'' 33:15) and could easily have fit on a single CD. For comparison, their EP ''The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues'' was thirty minutes long. The ''music'' has overall been very well received, however.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The hoedown at the end of "Ants Of The Sky."

* SignatureSong: "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" and "White Walls".

** Both parts of "Lost Perfection". To say '''MindScrew''' would be an {{Understatement}}.

* MostWonderfulSound: It's raining, It's raining, IT'S RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIN!

--> ''[[MonsterClown Clowns]] now appear''
--> ''They're carrying knives and jugs of gasoline''
--> ''[[FamousLastWords Tonight is our death!]]''
--> ''[[MurderSuicide The clowns being to slash each other...]]''

%%And why are they the most agreed upon? This is a ZeroContextExample as written.

* NightmareFuel: While not a pants pissing band, Between the Buried and Me ''does'' have some very creepy moments in their music, in particular Tommy's [[HellIsThatNoise very chaotic and screechy vocals]] on ''The Silent Circus''.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: While the self titled, ''The Silent Circle'', and ''Coma Ecliptic'' aren't no slouches, ''Alaska'', ''Colors'', and ''Parallax II'' are definitely big highlights in their music catalog.

* GrowingTheBeard: '''TWICE'''. The self entitled as usual metalcore, but then ''The Silent Circus'' showcased the band's rather impressive prog-like elements. And then was amped up perfectly with ''Alaska'' as well.

--> ''[[MonsterClown clowns]] now appear''

%%* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Opinions vary, but the most agreed upon are the songs "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" from ''Alaska'', "Mordecai" from ''The Silent Circus'', and "White Walls" from ''Colors''.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The general consensus agrees that ''The Great Misdirect'' isn't a bad album, and actually has one of the band's best known songs (specifically "Swim to the Moon").