History Music / BiffyClyro

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Biffy Clyro''' (left to right: Ben Johnston, Simon Neil and James Johnston)]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:Biffy Clyro.]]

Fuck everybody! Woo!''

''I’ve been punching rainbows since ‘79\\

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* ProtestSong: “The Champ” rails against reationaries who talk about how “it was better in my day”.

* EpicRocking: "Time As An Imploding Unit/Waiting For Green" goes on for almost ten minutes. Other long tracks include "Being Gabriel" (6:20), "Kill the Old, Torture Their Young" (6:12), All the Way Down: Prologue/Chapter 1" (6:43), "Corfu" (6:29) and "Fever Dream" (6:12).

* TBC (2020)

* CarefulWithThatAxe: frequently.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: The cover of ''A Vertigo of Bliss''.

* EpicRocking: "Time As An Imploding Unit/Waiting For Green" goes on for almost ten minutes. Other long tracks include "Kill the Old, Torture Their Young" (6:12), All the Way Down: Prologue/Chapter 1" (6:43), "Corfu" (6:29) and "Fever Dream" (6:12).

* EpicRocking: "Time As An Imploding Unit/Waiting For Green" goes on for almost ten minutes.

* TitleTrack: "Balance, Not Symmetry". ''Opposites'' almost has one in a track called "Opposite".

* MetalScream: Used a couple of times, most notably on "There's No Such Thing As A Jaggy Snake".

->''"Hello, we're Biffy Clyro."''

* LyricalShoehorn: There are a couple of instances of adding "'''s''" at the end of a word since the word "''is''" on its own wouldn't fit with the tune. This results in lines like "''All we have's diseased organs''" from "Victory Over the Sun", and "''My grave concerns I can't ignore the past''" from "Howl", which don't sound quite right when you say them out loud.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Only Revolutions'', which is more melodic and contains more symphonic elements.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: The second half of ''Opposites'' is apparently supposed to have a more positive outlook than the dark first half.

* WordSaladLyrics: Many, many of their songs don't make much sense. Especially if you take them literally. Even the songs that are actually ''about'' something would sound bizarre to anyone who isn't a committed fan.

* LyricalShoehorn: There are a couple of instances of adding "'''s''" at the end of a word since the word "''is''" on its own wouldn't fit with the tune. This results in lines like "''All we have's diseased organs''" from "Victory Over the Sun", and "''My grave concern's I can't ignore the past''" from "Howl", which don't sound quite right when you say them out loud.

Their best known album, ''Only Revolutions'', reached #3 in the UK chart and went gold within days of its release in 2009, later going platinum in 2010 and was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. In December 2010 they were especially brought to notice of mainstream after their song "Many of Horror" was covered as the winner's single in TheXFactor by Matt Cardle.

* RefrainFromAssuming: That song that's been everywhere recently? It's called "Many of Horror", NOT "When We Collide" - no matter what [[TheXFactor Matt Cardle]] says.

* BritishAccents: Scottish. All three members sing, and all sound very similar to non-scots, making it difficult to know who's singing on some songs.

* MakingUseOfTheTwin: Averted in the video for ''Mountains'', which features the identical lords of mountain and sea. Simon plays both.