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North Carolina prog-metal legends-in-the-making Between The Buried And Me have released the video for "Astral Body" off their highly-anticipated new LP, "The Parallax II: Future Sequence", this morning via AlternativePress. Check it out by following this link.

The video keeps with the space-related imagery that the record and its EP predecessor have been building upon and gives a unique insight into the progressing storyline that carries through both records. Likely to be the shortest BTBAM video you'll ever see, "Astral Body" defiantly crams so much rich imagery that by the time you watch it 5 times to get a solid grasp on the concept, you'll have spent as much time with it as you would most 'regular' length BTBAM tracks. 

When we spoke to Dan Briggs, bassist of North Carolina progressive-metal masters Between The Buried And Me, about his new jazz-fusion side project "Trioscapes" in March - it was remarkably difficult NOT to ask a barrage of questions about the new BTBAM record. At the time, all that we were able to get out of Briggs was that we could expect a release date that would fall sometime around the group’s European tour, which allowed us to deduce that we’d be looking at yet another October release.

Metal fans have it great. No one tells you what to like, how to act, how to dress, or what is trendy for the week. Nope, it’s just you, the music, and the T-shirt. As far back as anybody can remember it’s always been easy to recognize a fellow metalhead by the shirt. One can be standing in line at a local fast food joint in the south Bronx when the etchings of PANTERA catch your eye from across the room. It took all but a few seconds to make an ally (just in case shit goes down), and to remember to blast “Cemetery Gates” on the drive home.