BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME will kick off an extensive North American tour on September 14, just two days after the release of the band’s eagerly awaited new album, “The Blue Nowhere”. The six-week trek is a co-headlining run with HAIL THE SUN, featuring openers DELTA SLEEP (September 22-October 30) and THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE (September 14-21).
“It is with great thrill and anticipation that we’re finally able to announce that we will be hitting the road this fall in support of our brand new album, ‘The Blue Nowhere’,” shares BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME guitarist Paul Waggoner. “We always embrace the opportunity to perform for our amazing fans, particularly when we have new music floating around out there!”
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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME and HAIL THE SUN tour dates:
Sept. 14 – Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
Sept. 15 – Boston, MA Royale
Sept. 16 – Ottawa, ON The Bronson
Sept. 18 – Toronto, ON Danforth Music Hall
Sept. 19 – Montreal, QC Théâtre Beanfield
Sept. 20 – Portland, ME Aura
Sept. 21 – Albany, NY Empire Live
Sept. 22 – New York, NY Warsaw
Sept. 23 – Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
Sept. 25 – Raleigh, NC The Ritz
Sept. 26 – Charleston, SC Music Farm
Sept. 27 – Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
Sept. 29 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room
Sept. 30 – Orlando, FL House of Blues
Oct. 01 – New Orleans, LA The Joy Theater
Oct. 02 – Houston, TX Warehouse Live
Oct. 03 – San Antonio, TX Kill Iconic Fest
Oct. 04 – Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Oct. 07 – Phoenix, AZ The Nile Theater
Oct. 08 – Riverside, CA Riverside Municipal Auditorium
Oct. 09 – Las Vegas, NV 24 Oxford
Oct. 10 – San Francisco, CA August Hall
Oct. 12 – Portland, OR Revolution Hall
Oct. 13 – Seattle, WA The Crocodile
Oct. 14 – Vancouver, BC The Pearl
Oct. 16 – Edmonton, AB Union Hall
Oct. 17 – Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall
Oct. 19 – Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
Oct. 20 – Boise, ID Knitting Factory
Oct. 21 – Bozeman, MT The ELM
Oct. 22 – Missoula, MT The Wilma
Oct. 24 – Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
Oct. 25 – Wichita, KS TempleLive
Oct. 26 – Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
Oct. 27 – Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre
Oct. 28 – Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
Oct. 29 – Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl
Oct. 30 – Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
25 years and 10 genre-defining albums into its storied career, Grammy-nominated band BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME returns with its most immersive and eclectic record yet, “The Blue Nowhere”, due out September 12 via InsideOut Music. The release also serves as BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME‘s debut for the label.
Although BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME is known for its conceptual albums, vocalist Tommy Rogers explains that the 10-track collection “exists in a world that’s not tied to a storyline. It’s more about a feeling, where the songs live for me.” He describes the lyrical approach to “The Blue Nowhere” as “journal entries, fleeting and introspective thoughts — chaotic at times, depending on the music.”
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME offered fans a first feel for the new album with the release of “Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark” and its accompanying video.
Director Miles Skarin shares insight into the clip: “For ‘Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark’, we wanted to create the hotel from the album concept and artwork — we 3D-modeled the hotel based on the artwork and began to create shots of it at different times of day. Marigold is a theme across the record, so we have a scene where lots of marigold petals start to cover the hotel. This was quite an intense particle simulation that took 17 hours to process and render. We also added surreal elements to the video, including infinite hotel corridors and strange space sequences with the doors to the different rooms in the hotel. We’re really pleased with the final look and hope that everyone enjoys seeing the hotel come to life!”
“This track emerged from the maniac genius of Dan Briggs,” Rogers shares. “The song deals with the dark cloud that is ego, so I tried to vocally approach it with a different kind of confidence than normal, almost like a pop song… even though it takes you down crazy avenues, you can sit back and sing along.”
Dan Briggs adds: “It’s one of the rare songs I started around the bass and that foundational funky idea, while also maintaining a pretty straightforward melodic idea underneath everything, no matter how dense it got rhythmically. I love when we have arrangements that feel like they have a page turn into another dimension, but I thought it was important for this one to feel really seamless as it moved dynamically. Even when it gets heavy, I thought it’d be fun at the core to still feel like it was Prince’s band playing, keeping it funky.”
Produced by longtime collaborator Jamie King, “The Blue Nowhere” is also the first BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME album to feature an extensive string and horn section. It is available as a special-edition CD, gatefold 2LP and digitally. A deluxe gatefold special colored 2LP + 2CD edition includes a bonus track on side D, the full album and instrumentals across 2CDs, an exclusive door-hanger, and alternate artwork. Pre-orders are available tomorrow via Betweentheburiedandme.com.
“The Blue Nowhere” track listing:
01. Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark
02. God Terror
03. Absent Thereafter
04. Pause
05. Door #3
06. Mirador Uncoil
07. Psychomanteum
08. Slow Paranoia
09. The Blue Nowhere
10. Beautifully Human
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME has built a reputation as one of heavy music’s most forward-thinking and creatively ambitious bands. Over the past 25 years, they have released ten albums, from their 2002 self-titled debut to 2021’s “Colors II”, blending technical mastery with conceptual depth. Throughout their career their albums have consistently landed on year-end best-of lists, earned a Grammy nomination in 2019 (with the award’s web site praising their music as “versatile, imaginative and absolutely crushing the band’s music”),been dubbed “prog metal heroes” by Kerrang!, and praised by Guitar World for their “epic” and “hugely diverse” sound.
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME is Tommy Rogers (vocals/keys),Paul Waggoner (guitars),Dan Briggs (bass/keys),and Blake Richardson (drums).
Photo credit: Randy Edwards
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