North Carolina Heavy Metal Musical Groups - Firehouse, Corrosion of Conformity, Between the Buried and Me, Medusa Stone, Sanctity, Daylight Dies (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Firehouse, Corrosion of Conformity, Between the Buried and Me, Medusa Stone, Sanctity, Daylight Dies, Buzzoven, Prayer for Cleansing, Catharsis, Soulpreacher, Thunderlip, Lunatic Candy Kreep, Glass Casket, Sun Red Sun, Sourvein, Weedeater. Excerpt: Between the Buried and Me Between the Buried and Me is an American heavy metal band, formed in 2000. Since their inception they have released five studio albums, one cover album and one live DVD. Their follow-up to Colors, titled The Great Misdirect was released October 27, 2009. The band's name is derived from a section of lyrics in the Counting Crows song "Ghost Train"; "Took the cannonball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to shining sea/I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation/Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me ." Biography The band was founded in 2000 in Greensboro, North Carolina by vocalist Tommy Rogers, guitarist Paul Waggoner, drummer Will Goodyear, guitarist Nick Fletcher (formerly Empire Falls), and bassist Jason King. Between the Buried and Me's first release was a three-song demo, containing the tracks "Use of a Weapon," "What We Have Become," and "More of Myself to Kill." These three tracks were re-recorded for the band's self-titled debut album, released through Lifeforce Records in 2002. The album includes the track "Arsonist," a protest against the beliefs and practices of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas . The song "Aspirations" became the band's first music video. This album is not widely known and the tracks are rarely played live, but it did get the attention of Victory Records, to which they later signed. Victory Records reissued the album in 2004 as an enhanced CD. In 2003, the band released their second studio album, The Silent Circus, featuring the s...