Formed in 2000 in North Carolina, Between the Buried and Me play extremely technical and varied death metal with super-growly Cookie Monster-esque vocals. The songs have many components, ranging from obliterating grind-core, to messing with signature signatures like the Gorguts on lithium, to moments of sheer ethereal beauty. But it's these passages with light guitars and sung vocals that really set Between the Buried apart from other folks playing death metal today.