Progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me will release its 11th full-length studio album, “The Blue Nowhere,” on Sept. 12, 2025, via InsideOutMusic. Preorder the album here, and watch the music video for the record’s first single, “Things We Tell Ourselves in the Dark,” below.
Vocalist Tommy Rogers said the new 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 described the lyrical approach as “journal entries, fleeting and introspective thoughts—chaotic at times, depending on the music.”
“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,” director Miles Skarin said. “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 said. “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.”
Briggs said: “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 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 two CDs, an exclusive door-hanger and alternate artwork.
“The Blue Nowhere” track listing:
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:
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
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