Between the Buried and Me have announced their eleventh album, The Blue Nowhere. It’s due out on September 12 via InsideOutMusic, their first release for the label, and it was produced by Jamie King. According to the press release, it features an “extensive string and horn section,” and vocalist Tommy Rogers says it “exists in a world that’s not tied to a storyline,” adding, “It’s more about a feeling, where the songs live for me.” He describes his lyrical approach for the album as “journal entries, fleeting and introspective thoughts – chaotic at times, depending on the music.”
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The first single is “Things We Tell Ourselves in the Dark.” “This track emerged from the maniac genius of [bassist] Dan Briggs,” Rogers says. “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.”
“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,” Briggs adds. “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.”
Miles Skarin, who directed the accompanying video, says, “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!” Watch that, and see the cover art and tracklist for The Blue Nowhere below.
The band will be on tour in Europe and the UK in July and August. See all dates below.
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – THE BLUE NOWHERE TRACKLIST
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: 2025 TOUR DATES
July 30 Istanbul, TR IF Performance Hall
July 31 Râşnov, RO Rockstadt Extreme Fest
August 1 Budapest, HU Monolit Festival 2025
August 2 Wien, AT Szene
August 3 München, DE Free & Easy Festival
August 4 Berlin, DE Hole44
August 5 Katowice, PL Miçdzynarodowe Centrum Kongresowe
August 6 – 7 Jaroměř, CZ Brutal Assault 2025
August 9 Kortrijk, BE Alcatraz Metal Festival
August 10 Utrecht, NL Pandora
August 11 Tilburg, NL 013 Next Stage
August 12 Köln, DE Luxor
August 14 Dinkelsbühl, DE Summer Breeze
August 15 – 16 Compton Martin, UK ArcTanGent
August 17 Carhaix-Plouguer, FR Festival Motocultor
