On September 12, Michael of Freethinkers’ Blog conducted an interview with Tommy Giles and Paul Waggoner of the North Carolina progressive rock band Between The Buried And Me in Vienna, Austria. You can now watch the chat in two parts below. Also available is performance footage from the Vienna concert.
Between The Buried And Me‘s new album, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues was released on April 12 via Metal Blade Records. The three-song, 30-minute tour de force was recorded at Canada’s Metalworks Studios and Rattlebox Studios and helmed by the Grammy award–winning producer David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, King Crimson, Dream Theater).
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues represents Between The Buried And Me‘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, Between The Buried And Me 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.
Interview Part 1:
Interview Part 2: