Between The Buried And Me announce new record deal, new album and share new single

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US prog rock quartet Between The Bureid And Me have announced they've signed a brand new record deal with prog specialist label InsideOut Music and will release their brand new album, The Blue Nowhere, on September 12.

The band, now Tommy Rogers (vocals/keys), Paul Waggoner (guitars), Dan Briggs (bass/keys), and Blake Richardson (drums), have also shared a video for the first music from the upcoming album, the eight-minute Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark. The new album's extensive use of a string and horn section indicates the diversity of the band's new material.

“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," explains bassist Briggs of the new single.

"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.”

Although known for their complex concept albums, frontman Rogers explains that the new album “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 & Me will be touring throughout Europe and the UK this summer at festivals and some of their own live shows, including an appearance at this year's ArcTanGent Festival in the UK in August. You can see their full list of dates below.

The Blue Nowhere will be available as a Special Edition CD, Gatefold 2LP, and digitally. A Deluxe Gatefold Special Colored 2LP + 2CD edition which includes a bonus track on Side D, the full album and instrumentals across 2CDs, an exclusive door-hanger, and alternate artwork.

Pre-orders open tomorrow.

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube

Watch On

Between The Buried And Me: The Blue Nowhere
1. Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark
2. God Terror
3. Absent Thereafter
4. Pause
5. Door #3
6. Mirador Uncoil
7. Psychomanteum
8. Slow Paranoia
9. The Blue Nowhere
10. Beautifully Human

Between The Buried And Me tour dates

Jul 30: TUR Istanbul IF Performance Hall
Jul 31: ROM Râşnov Rockstadt Extreme Fest
Aug 1: HUN Budapest Monolit Festival 2025
Aug 2: AUT Wien Szene
Aug 3: GER München Free & Easy Festival
Aug 4: GER Berlin Hole44
Aug 5: POL Katowice Miçdzynarodowe Centrum Kongresowe
Aug 6-7: CZE Jaroměř Brutal Assault 2025
Aug 9: BEL Kortrijk Alcatraz Metal Festival
Aug 10: NED Utrecht Pandora
Aug 11: NED Tilburg 013 Next Stage
Aug 12: GER Köln Luxor
Aug 14: GER Dinkelsbühl Summer Breeze
Aug 15 - 16: UK Compton Martin ArcTanGent
Aug 17: FRA Carhaix-Plouguer Festival Motocultor

Artists

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.