Extremophile Elite (as with many, many of their other songs) is composed like Classical, played like Jazz, but sounds like Metal. Simply brilliant

This is my favorite album by them. "Silent Flight Parliament" into "Goodbye to Everything Reprise" is absolute perfection.

9:40 is a melodic theme from their EP before this (same story). This might be my favorite album of theirs

Fantastic take. its no wonder this band is loved many many metal and non metal fans alike. they are just so refreshing and experimental on a whole nother level.

Selkies: The Endless Obsession is a standalone track. It's their early stuff, and it song that started my love for them. I really feel like it's a "must react" for anyone who likes prog metal

I think the next logical step for BTBAM listening would be to do a full album reaction. My vote would be this album, but basically any of them would be great.

This album changed my life!. I know I'm late commenting, but I'm just now seeing this reaction. Yes, a full album reaction would be awesome. I drove 6 hours to see this full album live and it was amazing and one of the best moments of my life.

Very nice! I've been looking forward to this. Shared on the All Things BTBAM fan group immediately 😁

At first I didn't realize you flipped the video and was super confused when Blake's drum set was all backwards. Seeing Paul's hair super long again is weird. This album is amazing. Next you should check out some of their stranger and fun tracks that incorporate different styles of music like Ectopic Stroll, Bloom, or Voice of Trespass. Those are some of my favorites. They also recently did a live show on Twitch and played the entirety of the Colors album from front to back. I don't know if the VOD is available to non-subscribers but the show was fantastic and I would recommend checking it out!

Been waiting for you to react to this live song for months haha. That xylophone gets everyone! You are right that like many of their songs this comes from a concept album, Parallax II, which is the sequel to an EP Parallax I, which was set up from tracks on previous albums! This album (Parallax II) and Colors are often considered their greatest works. With Colors redefining modern prog and this being their magnum opus.

May i suggest "Swim to the moon"? Is his longest song and is a masterpiece

It took me quite a while to really start appreciating BTBAM, but once I did they quickly became one of my favorite bands of all time. The 3 songs that you've reacted to are spread quite evenly across their discography, from the albums: Automata II (2018), The Parallax II (2012), and Colors (2007). All 5 albums from 2007 onward are absolute masterpieces in my opinion, so I'm sure you'll enjoying digging into those on your own time :) The album reaction idea would be amazing though, so perhaps you should save Colors or Coma Ecliptic for that. Those albums are essentially just 1 long song each ;)

YES! Full album review of Between the Buried and Me! PLEASE I would like to see you review Coma Ecliptic

My favorite BTBAM song. Parallax 2 is my favorite metal album.

they technically are all riffs they’re just so short, learning this song on guitar took a month for me

Maybe you can listen to Dear Hunter's and BTBAM's common project: Split. They each covered a song from the other band, in my opinion The Dear Hunter knocked it out of the park with Rapid Calm. Otherwise I'd vote for Coma Ecliptic for album review mostly because it's their most melodic one.

“This band is for me.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. Definitely my favorite band!

I suggest 'Car Bomb' they're great at f-ing with time feel and use pitch shifting pedals to great effect. I recommend the song Vague Skies, but anything from them is great. Especially their newest album.

Wow, that is excellent music. Technical, but it always still feels like a whole song.

I’ve been waiting for you to find this video for so long.

So glad you did this. This is my favorite album by them. When they played this at the show I was at in December I went nuts!

Dude i love your reactions, seriously made my day to see some more BTBAM. Keep it up!

YES, this is my favorite by them by far. i admit i havnt gotten deep in that rabbit-hole yet but this specific live performance is sooo good and i find myself coming back to this one time and time again

My favorite band! Been looking forward to this! Dan Briggs (The Bassist) can have my friggin babies. I worship the ground that man walks on. I lock into what he does most of the time as I am also a bassist. It's amazing, a lot of the times he plays the exact same shredding runs that Paul and Dusty play. And yes, I can't agree with you more Bryan. They create SOUNDSCAPES and STORIES. While they have the chops to just be a shred band like DragonForce or Necrophagist, they'd rather create stories knowing when to take a break, kick it up, get technical, and slow it down. True Musicians. Their early stuff is non conceptual and is also VERY good. "Ad a Dglmut", "Mordecai", and "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" are all from separate, earlier non conceptual albums. "Colors" Is their first concept album and it is SUPERB. And I've seen them play it in it's entirety. Also saw them play this album in it's entirety as well. One of the best live shows I've ever been to. EDIT: Dammit Bryan if I hear you just about mistake BMtH for BTBAM i'm gonna friggin' riot. Don't you do that to my favorite band.

Been watching your videos for a long time! Btbam has been my favorite band for a very long time. If you’re going to do an album react, I strongly suggest the Great Misdirect. It’s my favorite album of theirs, and you haven’t listened to anything off of it yet. It’s great from start to finish and hits a lot of different genres. Keep up the great work man!

Great react! Love this song and love this video

I love BTBAM. They sound like the angriest musical threatre geeks in the world.

YEE BOI I told you! Now you just gotta react to their live recording of Colors!

Thank you for this! :)

For stand alone non concept btbam songs you MUST do Selkies: an endless obsession any fan will tell you thats a must hear. For album reactions its like a 6 way tie but id say parallax 2 or the great misdirect

The whole live DVD this is from, live at the fideltorium, is amaaazing. Such a complex setlist and to do it perfectly is just beyond comprehension

First time I was exposed to this band was on their Parallax tour, and after diving into their whole catalogue I can safely say that this album is a true gem. In my opinion none of their other works come close to touching it

Yes. I love almost every song in this channel. Well-done music lml

Thank you for revisiting these guys, it’s awesome to see you enjoying them the same way a lot of your viewers do! Now that you’re sold on these guys, please check out some Car Bomb! Gratitude, Vague Skies, Black Blood... any of those would be a great intro. I’m telling you, you’ll love them.

One of, if not my favorite BTBAM song! Loved your take on it too- spot on, man! Cheers!

Swim to the Moon

Awww hell yeah. I've seen these dudes many time they are always on point.

You should do an album react to their The Great Misdirect, they were going to do a full album tour that got canceled this year. Any songs from The Silent Circus or Alaska album you can do individually since they’re earlier works and not conceptual.

Finally!!! Been for this for so long and all week! Makes me very happy you love them so much. You def get it! Fun fact: the guy playing the xylophone is their first drummer before their current one. I agree with you about not having btbam again. There next reaction should be an album reacts. I would suggest colors and then parallax 1&2. Thanks for reacting to this!

This is amidst one conceptual album & the reoccurring themes are just lovely

Between the Buried and Me! Great review!

If you're hooked because of extremophile elite and are looking forward for an album reaction, just do the parallax 2 future sequence, one of the most interesting concept albums to have exist, with some beautiful melodies and clean vocals to some raging metal with their twists that make it different, and story telling on a different level both musically and lyrically. Just check it out we want a reaction!

That is such a great song from a great band. Could you try something of a band called Oranssi Pazuzu?, i guess is not as complex as BTBAM but they do a really weird and interesting genre called Psychedelic black metal, you could listen to Valveavaruus or Ilmestys, both of them are a real trip.

Surprised to see you like this over Colors (Ants of the sky is on that album), quite a unpopular opinion but I agree, this song is how I got into the band, very refreshing to see someone prefer it over Colors, 'peak metal' is quite the acclaim and it made me really happy when you said that!

This whole video made me super happy! Definitely do Coma Ecliptic for a full album review! It’s not my personal fav but after everything you’ve told us about your taste and what you enjoy the most I’d bet money that’s the one for you!

Somehow, BTBAM is a band I've yet to check out. I think after hearing this I'm going to remedy that major oversight. Vocalist reminds me a ton of Randy Blythe from Lamb of God.

You HAVE to react to the 7" split where The Dear Hunter and Between The Buried and Me cover one of each others songs!

I like BTBAM... I like your videos... Nice xD to be honest, I too think BTBAM is definitly one of the best progressive metal bands... maybe even of all metal. They have created some beautiful metal

Gotta do more of them

Good take, thats what makes btbam my favorite, they can play ANYTHING but still have a flow and coherence, and also go 100 percent experimental and it works, no other band pulls it off this well

The new Haken album is worth checking out! Especially the "Messiah Complex" 5 part song.

Enjoy your weekend you deserve it!

I guess you can say that the 'riffs' are more of an over-arching musical theme. The theme, or rather themes, are contiguous throughout the album. Conceptually brilliant band. Also, it must be said that reading the lyrics along with the music is really important. I love it how you are sold on these two bands.

I seriously recommend listening to their entire album "The Great Miss direct" album. It has so much variety and IMO the BEST climax at the end of all their albums. It's amazing.

Please don’t stop doing btbam songs .

Dude yes!!!!!!!

For albums I´d recommend Coma Ecliptic, Parallax 2 (the album this song is on) and colors

I'll come out and say that if you do decide to react to their albums, i'd vote for Coma Ecliptic to be the first.

You should check out the band Orbs. The bassist in this band plays guitar in Orbs. Its like cool psychedelic post-hardcore inspired math rock. Suggested songs: Sayer Of The Law Eclipsical

Every song needs more than one listen to take it all in thats why I love it.

YESSSS, he did it! Great stuff! As a long time BTBAM fan i agree with the riffing being something that makes them unique, sometimes a band has "a verse" with "a guitar line" before the bridge or chorus, but in BTBAM it's like they have SEVERAL verses, with a few variations, making the music really dense when we count the number of riffs that are used and won't come back. And yeah, you catched their 2 extremes and now reached their middle ground, there's nothing really new to discover beside that full album reaction (fingers crossed!) About the albums... Their early stuff (pre-colors) is not conceptual but it was quite different, more metalcore-ish. They really solidified their sound with Colors, and from that onwards it's all conceptual. The band works hard to connect the songs even when it's not "a 1 long song" like Colors was, so it's a really good experience to listen to a full album from start to finish

Still waiting on the full album reaction 😭😭😭

I would like to recommend the band Lör and song would be either Ruin (my favourite) or Upon a Withered Heart from their latest EP Edge of Eternity.

Leprous and BTBAM in back to back days? Keep up the awesome picks!

No no you're correct. This is peak metal. Definitely. Just by definition. And btbam isn't my favorite group of all time. But the fact that they're peak metal is pretty much indisputable.

4:44 - well said!

react to some Intronaut. Amazing jazzy metal

Glad you checked this video out and loved it so much. Haven’t requested in a while but have some I’ve been jamming this past month... Flub- Umbra Mortis (tech death with neoclassical sprinkles) Bolt Gun- Existence is Exile (ambient/atmospheric/post-metal) Creature- Fugue en Sol Mineur (avant-garde black metal) Imperial Triumphant- Rotted Futures (jazzy avant-garde black metal) Lor- Upon a Withered Heart or Edge of Eternity (listen to both- they’re the first and last songs and share ideas- progressive powermetal) Hope anyone who listens enjoys! Let me know what you think and send suggestions! Peace, Chris

Listening to btbam is a journey. Not a song, not an album, but an adventure or trip if you will. Spectacular band. Highly underrated.

"This band is for me" I understand that completely

Love the btbam gotta do more Dimmu Borgir maybe gateways or mourning palace from forces of the Northern night

You should totally do "Prequel to Sequel" !! That song is a masterpiece

When you do get around to a full album, Parallax 2 might be the one to do. Coma Ecliptic is also one I think you would really enjoy since it's more cohesive and not the whole kitchen sink thrown in like Colors is.

i wish i could see people react to their first 2 albums... Criminally underated, so heavy yes has so much emotion and the most incredible riffs ive ever heard... Everything theyve done is great but something about the rawness of those first two... Ad a dglgmut has one of the greatest solos ive ever heard in my life and shevanel cut a flip has one of the greatest singing harmony segments ever

Album Reaction would be cool, still kinda newish to BtBaM myself been listening here and there but def haven't heard all of their Song's yet😁

Hello too.

This song not just the song. This is a masterpiece.

To address your question towards the end of the video, if you're going to do an album reaction you should definitely do The Great Misdirect! It got remastered last year, and every song on it is top-tier btbam. I'm glad to see how much you like them, they are certainly the "pinnacle of metal" to a lot of us!

I'd say that this (and your other reactions) are pretty apt, though I'd like to chime in with a few points of both some reception of the band's other work, and my own opinion. Apologies in advance for the length. 1) Firstly, you're missing out on some important context, and it frustrates me that people generally recommend this song as an introduction to the band (particularly considering that you've already enjoyed what you'd heard from them). I feel that "Lay Your Ghosts to Rest" (from the same album) has moments that are more interesting both melodically AND in terms of counterpoint. Also, the first song of the prior EP ("The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues") is referred to in the following album containing "Extremophile Elite", which makes certain moments of it much more impactful. 2) Most fans fall into the camp of glorifying either "Colors" (2007, containing "Ants of the Sky", your first reaction to the band) or Parallax II (2012, containing "Extremophile Elite", the present track). "Colors" is a fun ride from start to finish, and I hope you can enjoy it throughout, on your own terms, without worrying about capturing impressions on camera... Perhaps even listening through it twice, should you feel it's worth a video of post-album impressions, if not a live-stream of it. But for a first-time through... I hope you choose to just experience it as-is, without distractions, and, if you enjoy it enough, providing a commentary after the fact. (and if you do, let us know in advance! Personally, I'd set time aside to see your thoughts/comments on a second listen through the album, if you enjoy it enough to do so!) 3) There is a highly underrated album between "Colors" ('07) and "Parallax II" ('12) titled "The Great Misdirect" ('09), which fuses the eccentricity of "Colors" with the structure of "Parallax II", without (excessively) resorting to some of the tactics for filler found in "Parallax II", the likes of which have only grown worse as time's gone on, imo. The album closes with their longest song to date, which has been recommended several times, titled "Swim to the Moon", which is both bloated, and contains some of their coolest work, particularly in the second half of the song, of which I generally use instrumental parts from to introduce people to prog metal. (starting about 9:10 should give you plenty of context, should you not decide to listen through the whole song, or the album...) 4) Another camp loves the prior album to "Colors" (the crazy one) titled "Alaska" ('05); it was their first album with their current lineup, and it introduced their prog and more diverse elements to their prior heavier sound. The best, most famous, and most widely recommended example from this album would be "Selkies: The Endless Obsession", which is mostly known for its soulful guitar solo in the second half. tl;dr: Listen to the first track of the "Parallax" EP before you listen to "Parallax II". Listen through "Colors", "The Great Misdirect", and "Parallax II" on your OWN terms, and give your impressions either after the fact, or on a livestream of a second listen. And lastly, check out the song "Selkies". Love your reactions, and I hope we see plenty more from you. Thanks.

super epic band!

I would like to suggest the band Slugdge and recommended songs would be either Crop Killer or Spectral Burrows with Crop Killer being my favourite of the two.

First TDH and now BTBAM, hell yeah! The core 5 you see in the video started with their album Alaska so start there and work your way to their most recent stuff!

Between the Buried and Me is an acquired love

Swim to the Moon is a good isolated song which is very intricate and long haba

BTBAM is the best, I knew they would create fantastic music when they first hit the scene with Alaska

This is the first thing I've heard by them that I have enjoyed actually.

Well, you'll need to watch them do the whole album.

This is my favorite BTBAM song, I had a feeling you would really like it! I know self promotion doesn't get far but i really would love to hear what you think of my band Monotheist since we are strongly influenced by BTBAM. Scourge being the song I think would be the most up your alley. idk. I am enjoying your reactions and would be interested to hear what you think. and if by some chance you actually want to do this, i can send you any files you want. Regardless. keep it up! and if you do a whole album for btbam i would suggest this album, parallax 2. its by far my favorite

Love it, more BTBAM please!

I absolutely LOVE Between The Buried and Me. I still haven't gotten the chance to see them live, I could have two years ago but I chose to go see Buckethead instead. BTBAM will be here, I couldnt pass that opportunity

Swim to the Moon should be next on your list

Oooohhhhh yeeeaaahh!!! You finally reacted to this epic of a song! 😎 I win.... actually, we all win!

I can´t remember if I recommended it before. But Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor is a real gem of a song!

@10:50 it's augmented 4ths. Don't quote me on that. This is the sequel to the Parallax: hypersleep dialogues.

Really enjoying your reactions! It's because I don't know many bands and I can react to music with you :D and choose the interesting ones for me :) But I know BTBAM band and there are few songs you should listen to on your channel! White Walls - It's from the album with Ants of the Sky (Colors) and the song is the last song of the album with one of the best endings ever composed! At least BTBAM fans would tell you :D Swim to the Moon - I see tons of request in the comments for this song and the people know why they requested it :D. Another great ending song to the album The Great Misdirect Obfuscation - Another great song from The Great Misdirect album. The Coma Machine - Only the Album (Coma Ecliptic) picture is mindblowing :D Will be glad if you choose one of these as well if you do other great reaction to the band I don't know :)

You really should listen to Colors in full. That'd be a crazy deep dive which was life changing for me.

React to colors. One of my favourite albums

Often with their music, multiple different smaller riffs add up to sections they occasionally repeat. They also use musical themes often.

In regards to prog metal I entered through the Dream Theatre door but these guys are the real deal for me!

this one has the shock value because of the tuba/xylophone section and the sweet like sitar sounding stuff and all the changes, but the best song from that album is Telos