Artist News: Between The Buried And Me Signs With Metal Blade
Raleigh, North Carolina-based progressive rock/cutting-edge metal band Between The Buried And Me has inked a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records. The quintet will kick off the partnership with the April release of its new album, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues. The three-song strong, 30 minute tour de force was recorded at Canada's Metalworks Studios and Rattlebox Studios and produced / engineered by the Grammy award–winning David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, King Crimson, Dream Theater, etc.) with BTBAM. [Release date - April 12]
"We are delighted in the opportunity to join the Metal Blade family," commented BTBAM guitarist Paul Waggoner. "Their commitment to heavy music over the years is inspiring and we look forward to becoming a part of the ever-growing legacy of the label.
"Our new release, titled The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, will hit the streets in April. We are confident that our dedicated fans will appreciate it and hopeful that we will gain the attention of some new ears as well.
"In closing, I'd like to reference a quote from the illustrious Joe Dirt: 'Life's a garden, dig it.'"
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues will contain the first new music from BTBAM since the release of 2009's The Great Misdirect, which sold 13,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 36 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD was released on October 27, 2009 via Victory Records.
BTBAM supported The Great Misdirect with a full-scale North American headlining tour and live dates across Europe, Australia and Japan as well as a U.S. tour as hand-picked support for like-minded rockers Mastodon. The headlining tour is resented by Peter Says Denim in association with Guitar World and MetalSucks.net; the tour will launch on April 15 and feature support from special guests Job For A Cowboy, The Ocean and Cephalic Carnage (on select dates). Tickets are on sale now at this location (see dates at end of article).
Check out a teaser here
Pre-orders for The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues began on February 28 (go here) and earlier in the month, Alternative Press presented a special first listen of a portion of the new BTBAM track "Specular Reflection."
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues represents BTBAM's musical and conceptual masterwork; the record showcases both the quintet's vivid execution and ambitious vision. The otherworldly conceptual thread linking each of the songs is mobilized around two human characters that live in different planes of existence and are separated by millions of light years, each confronted with similar personal issues. Subsequently, both characters make decisions that will change their lives, and perhaps the course of the universe, forever. Musically, the release presents aura-rich atmospheres rife with roaring volumes, corrugated rhythms and trance-inducing intricacies. Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange and taut yet sprawling and epic, BTBAM has crafted a sound that is musically sophisticated yet primal and a disc where every new passage leads to the culmination of an epic adventure.
Track listing:
1.) Specular Reflection
2.) Augment of Rebirth
3.) Lunar Wilderness
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues' celestial cover art can be viewed at this location.
A special landing page for the release has been designed and hosts a six minute edit of the new BTBAM song "Specular Reflection." The hub, which also allows fans to pre-order The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues is now live.
Peter Says Denim Presents Between The Buried And Me
In association with Guitar World & MetalSucks.net
With Job For A Cowboy, The Ocean & Cephalic Carnage (*on select dates)
Brought to you by PRS Guitars, Metal Blade Records, Good Fight Entertainment & ACTION! PR
April 15 Farmingdale, NY The Crazy Donkey *
April 16 Worcester, MA The Palladium (as part of New England Metal & Hardcore Fest)
April 17 Lancaster, PA Chameleon Club *
April 18 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar *
April 19 Williamsville, NY Club Infinity *
April 20 Montreal, QC Le National *
April 21 Toronto, ON Opera House *
April 22 Toledo, OH Headliner’s *
April 23 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom *
April 25 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom *
April 26 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre *
April 27 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall +
April 29 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre *
April 30 Seattle, WA El Corazon +
May 01 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre +
May 03 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades +
May 04 San Francisco, CA Slim’s +
May 05 Pomona, CA Glasshouse Music Hall +
May 06 San Diego, CA Soma +
May 07 Mesa, AZ Nile Theatre +
May 09 Dallas, TX The Door *
May 10 Tulsa, OK The Marquee *
May 11 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theatre *
May 12 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade *
May 13 Nashville, TN Rocketown *
May 14 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel *
* = support from Job For A Cowboy and The Ocean
+ = support from Job For A Cowboy, The Ocean and Cephalic Carnage
[Source: Metal Blade]
