Coma Ecliptic
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| Studio album by Between the Buried and Me | ||||
| Released | July 10, 2015 | |||
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| Length | 68:31 | |||
| Label | Metal Blade | |||
| Producer | Jamie King | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 73/100 |
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| Allmusic |   |
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| Consequence of Sound | C- |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 |
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Coma Ecliptic is the seventh studio album by American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me, released on July 10, 2015 through Metal Blade Records. The band first announced the album through Twitter on September 8, 2014 saying "It has begun! #rockopera". Similar to previous releases by the band, Coma Ecliptic is a concept album. The first single, "Memory Palace" was released on April 3, 2015.
The band has stated that the concept of Coma Ecliptic involves a man stuck in a coma, journeying through his past lives. It was added that the man faces a choice to either stay or move on to something better. Each song is its own episode in a fashion similar to "The Twilight Zone".
Coma Ecliptic is notably the first album since 2005's "Alaska" to feature no songs over 10 minutes in length, and it's also the first album not to feature as much growling as in previous albums, since the clean vocals and harsh vocals in this one are more balanced than before.
The album received generally positive reviews from professional critics. Review aggregator Metacritic scored the album a 73 out of 100 based on 7 music critics, citing 'generally favorable reviews'. Thom Jurek of Allmusic gave the album a positive review saying, "Coma Ecliptic holds together as an album. Despite, and perhaps because of, its relative accessibility it is exceptionally creative. Ultimately, Between the Buried & Me, despite employing many tropes and influences, come off sounding like no one but themselves." Calum Slingerland of Exclaim! opined, "While the noticeable shift away from death metal may discourage some, Coma Ecliptic succeeds in pushing Between the Buried and Me's creativity in a new direction, avoiding a simple rehash of their winning formula."
Dom Lawson from The Guardian gave the album a perfect rating calling it "ingenious, sprawling prog-metal" and saying "From the rock opera crescendos of the opening "Node" onwards, the album dares to be both a quintessentially prog-rock experience and a timely act of modern metal derring-do." Chris Cope of Prog added that "at its best, Coma Ecliptic holds some of this band’s most impressive moments to date."
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