Fans of Between the Buried and Me will already know that the band's live DVD/BluRay Future Sequence: Live at Fidelitorium comes out next week, but the uninitiated might be wondering why they should be concerned with this fact.
The logic goes thusly: Between the Buried and Me play an intricate, technical brand of prog death on any given day of the week, but things are ramped up a couple of notches when the band tackles a nice hefty story as they have on their last couple of records. Things are further elevated when you hear slices of these complex narratives performed live, but the vogue thing now for bands to do (BTBAM included) is performing albums in their entirety on tour.
Live at Fidelitorium takes this magic and shifts it into a studio setting, performing the entirety of The Parallax II: Future Sequence in one go, with a bunch of guest musicians on various orchestral-type instruments thrown in for good measure. I was sold on the idea right there, but the band has put out a video of one of the songs from the DVD and it should be plenty strong enough to sway any doubters.
Your song tonight is "Extremophile Elite", originally from Future Sequence but here taken from Live at Fidelitorium. Bask in the apparent ease with which the guys tear through this one, and then go get yourself a copy of the DVD.
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