Coma Ecliptic Prog There aren’t many bands that infallibly cause you to utter, “What the actual fuck!?” in response to every album they release. But ’s brain-splintering conundrums of multi-genre madness have the ability to confound and inspire awe in equal measure, leaving the listener to wonder: “How the fuck do they do that?” Clever enough to cause a minor brain haemorrhage with the sheer complexity of their cross-genre compositional tapestry, the North Carolina quintet have never been ones to take the easy route. Back when the hardcore scene was kicking and screaming its way through the new millennium, they were doing things that turned the rebellious genre on its head.
“When our band was more rooted in the hardcore scene – and I mean the legit, straight edge hardcore vegan scene – even from that time it was still about the music,” says bassist . “Our peers would be jumping around on the stage, going nuts, and that was cool to see, but we just wanted to play the shit live like the way we wrote it.” Going against the grain is part of their genetic make-up.
Not many bands can truly own the term ‘progressive’, often buckling under the enormous weight imposed by mixing up too many styles, signatures or genres without the cohesive glue that makes sense of the desire to experiment. But Between The Buried And Me, even in their infancy, were determined to put an original and sometimes puzzling spin on the punk-rock aesthetic. Too heavy for fans of prog.