Metal Anarchy

Between The Buried And Me have announced that they will be releasing a new album, titled “The Blue Nowhere,” on September 12. Pre-orders can be found HERE.

“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”

Vocalist Tommy Rogers commented on the album:

“[It] exists in a world that’s not tied to a storyline. It’s more about a feeling, where the songs live for me. [The lyrics are] journal entries, fleeting and introspective thoughts – chaotic at times, depending on the music.”

A music video for the effort’s first single, “Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark,” can be found below. Director Miles Skarin said the following about that:

“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!”

Rogers continued:

“This track emerged from the maniac genius of Dan Briggs. 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 Dan Briggs added:

“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.”