Between the Buried and Me announce new album ‘The Blue Nowhere’

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME have announced a new album!

Titled The Blue Nowhere, the upcoming album from the North Carolina-based progressive metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Colors II, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via InsideOut Music.

Known for their 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.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark.

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.”

Bassist/keyboardist 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.”

Watch the official music video for Things We Tell Ourselves In the Dark here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

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

The Blue Nowhere is set for release on September 12th via InsideOut Music. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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