this is the last post of this btbam series. for now. pre-orders for the coming album called 'coma ecliptic' will be up on april third and release date is somewhere in june. so, some time this summer the series will go on. anyway, the record at hand is the first full length for btbam on metal blade. it is the continuation to their 'parallax: hypersleep dialogues' ep, musically and conceptionally.
it is their longest album to date, just over seventy minutes, and feels like the next logical step in their development. everything is so full of details, so sophistically evolved. nothing on this record happens by chance. everything is put in place pefectly conceived. after so many listens i still notice new small parts in their elaborate sound that i missed before. it's like digging in an enormous box of sweets and with every new search you discover something tastier than last time.
simply listen for yourself with 'extremophile elite' and 'melting citiy'. lyrically the story is pretty hard to understand. at least that's my impression. i believe i understand that the two characters who got introduced on 'parallax I', are linked by their soul. via a hyperspace jump they come together, recognising that they are the very same person and starting to destroy everything around them/her/him. dificult to decipher but that's just what makes the story so mystically attractive.
before i bought this record last year i checked sources. i didn't find any european or german distro with some colour copies left in stock, which was quite unsurprising to me considering the album being released in 2012. but then i found out that revelation hq still sold coloured copies. as my favourite german distro per koro recieves a big heap of its oversea records from revelation, i asked if markus/per koro could get me a copy. as you can see it worked out pretty good. can't say how many were made on this lovely blue and grey marble vinyl. metal blade. 2012.