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[METAL] Raleigh, North Carolina’s Between the Buried and Me are progressive metal surgeons. With their shredding electric guitar scalpels they meticulously open up a song and insert a banjo riff, or bleed you out with rapid time signature changes before patching it all up with a Queen cover.  The five-piece band certainly takes an unorthodox approach to technical death metal, and that’s probably why they’ve lasted so long. Their break-out record, 2005’s Alaska packed a punch to the viscera, which the band expertly followed up with an album of cover songs by everyone from Queen to Faith No More, Depeche Mode, and Metallica, before upping the ante with 2007’s Colors, which had the band working with everything from Jazz to Bluegrass within the context of extreme metal music. Metalunderground.com described the record as “adult contemporary progressive death metal.” This year, the band released their seventh full length record, the 68-minute Coma Ecliptic, which can only be described as a death metal opera. This all transfers exceptionally well to the live stage, as Between the Buried and Me has demonstrated to Buffalo in the past. They’ll return to the Town Ballroom on Thursday, August 6.