It’s difficult to categorize North Carolina’s Between the Buried and Me, if only because by the time you’ve finished pronouncing one label they’ve become something else entirely. A grinding death-metal onslaught can suddenly yield to a vibes-and-strings interlude that sounds like one of Danny Elfman’s Tim Burton scores, or a sprawling, algebraic tangle of guitar harmonies may abruptly dissolve into a burbling, bleeping electronic mass akin to a Gameboy meltdown. Their latest, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, is certainly never boring — exhausting, perhaps, with a procession of 10-minute tracks Frankensteined from bits of prog-metal, ’70s psych-fusion, CSN harmonies, and Middle-Eastern melodies — but never boring.
Mon.-Tue., March 11-12, 8 p.m., $29-$32, with Coheed & Cambria and Russian Circles, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info.
