“Fuck off, I’m full” was a measured response to Between The Buried And Me’s last album, Colors II. The 78-minute opus was a maximalist ode to music’s malleability, sardining death metal, salsa, bluegrass, metalcore, Crash Bandicoot samples and more inside a prog metal tin. As a thematic sequel to their 2007 breakthrough, Colors, it worked. As a standalone, it excelled.
Sure, it was a lot, but each unhinged element pushed, pulled, complemented the next. Sarcastically described by vocalist Tommy Rogers as ‘“heavy yacht rock”, it helped BTBAM squeeze one of their famed concepts through when they thought they were out of steam.
