History Music / BetweenTheBuriedAndMe

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Paul
** TheLancer: Dustie
** TheSmartGuy: Tommy
** TheBigGuy: Blake
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Dan

->''"Over and over\\
Day in, day out\\
Monotonous drought\\
We didn't live, we only existed"''
-->--'''"Revolution in Limbo"'''

* GenreBusting: Although they fit cleanly within the ProgressiveMetal genre, they probably incorporate a more diverse range of influences than a typical prog metal band. The GenreRoulette and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly entries below explain further.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Avoided this with what was mostly a consistently metallic sound for the first three albums (with exceptions here and there), but from ''Colors'' onwards most songs dabble in genres ranging from jazz to polka to progressive rock, with frequent juxtaposition of loud/heavy elements and softer, quieter elements. Even before this, they still would mix and match metal genres to a certain extent (for example, there are segments of ''Alaska'' that resemble BlackMetal, while "Use of a Weapon" practically sounds like NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal with harsh vocals), and there were {{Subdued Section}}s that sat outside of metal genres entirely.
** "Ants of the Sky", as an example, moves through a wide series of genres in roughly thirteen minutes. Broadly, it moves through melodic metalcore, soft piano, power metal, progressive metal, Pantera-esque groove metal, blues rock, thrash metal, atmospheric prog akin to Pink Floyd, a country guitar solo, and then a ''bluegrass hoedown'' leading directly into a power metal finale.

* DownerEnding: The Parallax storyline ends in this [[spoiler:when Prospect 2 goes crazy (after being manipulated by the Night Owls) and activates the Black Box, killing off humanity and allowing the Night Owls to succeed. Goodbye to Everything]].

* ConceptAlbum: ''The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues'' and ''The Parallax II: Future Sequence'' make up two parts of a very confusing ConceptAlbum. [[http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2012/07/24/prognotes-between-the-buried-and-mes-the-parallax-part-i-introduction/ This]] may help you understand it somewhat better.

* EpicRocking: Very frequent from ''Colors'' onward, with the top three prizes taken by album finales "Swim to the Moon" (nearly 18 minutes), "Silent Flight Parliament" (about 15 minutes), and "White Walls" (about 14). Gets even more mind-boggling if you consider that most of the songs on their recent albums segue continuously into one another and the track divisions often seem almost arbitrary. They have actually performed ''Colors'' in its entirety and released it as a live album. The entire thing is close to sixty-six minutes of continuous performance.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Due to their amorphous sound, they've covered everything from 1 to 10, with their early material generally sticking around the 9/10 region and later songs veering between hardnesses.

** "White Walls" was an examination of who they were as a band at the time and stated their desire to break out of the metalcore genre and escape being pigeonholed, as well as something of a DearNegativeReader to the older fans who didn't want them to grow as a band and just wanted another strictly heavy album.
** "Ad a dglgmut" is a dedication to "noise", which per WordOfGod can include anything in nature, as well as heavy music, which can seem like noise to the uninitiated but can become beautiful after enough listening.

* HiddenTrack: "The Man Land" at the end of ''The Silent Circus''. It's assumed by many that they recorded it when they were drunk. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments VERY DRUNK]].

* MindScrew: Their album catalog is ''filled'' with this. Prime example is looking at the concept of "The Parallax", which stretches ''[[UpToEleven all the way to "The Silent Circus"]]''.

!Tropes associated with Between the Buried and Me

* LoudnessWar: Unfortunately most of their releases are brickwalled pretty badly.