Progressive rock/cutting-edge metal innovators Between The Buried And Me will release their new album, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, on October 9 via Metal Blade Records. The CD, which clocks in at approximately 72 minutes, features artwork from Charlotte, North Carolina artist and designer Chandler Owen [Underoath, Shai Hulud, Hopesfall].
The group — Tommy Rogers (vocals / keyboards), Paul Waggoner (guitar), Dustie Waring (guitar), Blake Richardson (drums / percussion) Dan Briggs (bass) — is currently taking part in the Summer Slaughter tour, which kicked off on Friday, July 20 in Los Angeles, California.
The song Telos can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.
The Parallax II: Future Sequence was recorded at The Basement Studios in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with longtime friend of the band and producer Jamie King. Jamie engineered, mixed and mastered The Parallax II: Future Sequence, which makes this the sixth release Jamie and Between The Buried And Me have worked together on.
Regarding the concept of The Parallax II: Future Sequence, the new full-length album picks up where the 2011 EP, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, left off. “The two main characters of the story take on a journey through space and time with the unenviable task of having to cure the flaws of humanity by any means necessary. While the EP served mostly as an introduction to the characters, Future Sequence contains the action of the story. The lyrics are written in the stream of consciousness style, which really helps to capture the perspective and emotion of the characters. We really enjoyed the challenge of writing this record, and I think we were all pleasantly surprised with how well the music and lyrics jived with one another. I couldn’t be happier with how Future Sequence turned out,” comments guitarist Paul Waggoner.
Vocalist and keyboardist Tommy Rogers adds his thoughts on the musical direction of The Parallax II: Future Sequence. “This album is Between The Buried And Me on steroids. I feel like we have created an album that perfectly mirrors the band we’ve been trying to create since day one. An album that has sounds that will stimulate many genres and music fans alike. A conceptual journey that takes the listener to worlds that seem familiar and worlds that make you scratch your head. From start to finish this is music we want to create, not music we think people want us to create. We create songs that keep us (and hopefully you) excited about heavy music. Keep listening… something new will be there each time. Enjoy the music… we enjoyed writing it.”
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialoguesis a three-song strong, 30-minute tour de force of modern heavy music. Produced and engineered by the Grammy award–winning David Bottrill with BTBAM, the record soared to #54 on the Billboard Top 200 chart in its first week of release while landing the #5 spot on the Hard Music chart, and #8 on the Independent Albums chart in its first week of release. The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues also debuted in Canada charting at #62 on the Top 200 Current chart, #6 on the Hard chart, and #14 on the Independent chart.
Track listing:
01. Goodbye To Everything
02. Astral Body
03. Lay Your Ghosts to Rest
04. Autumn
05. Extremophile Elite
06. Parallax
07. The Black Box
08. Telos
09. Bloom
10. Melting City
11. Silent Flight Parliament
12. Goodbye to Everything Reprise
Summer Slaughter Tour
Cannibal Corpse, Between the Buried and Me, The Faceless,
Periphery, Veil Of Maya, Job for a Cowboy, Goatwhore, Exhumed,
Cerebral Bore, and special guests TBA in each city
07/26 San Antonio,TX White Rabbit
07/27 Mission, TX Pharr Events Center
07/28 Houston, TX House of Blues
07/30 Tampa, FL The Ritz
07/31 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
08/01 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
08/02 Knoxville, TN The Valarium
08/03 Charlotte, NC Amos Southend
08/04 Baltimore, MD Sonar
08/05 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
08/07 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
08/08 New York, NY Irving Plaza
08/09 Albany, NY Northern Lights
08/10 Worcester, MA The Palladium
08/11 Montreal, QC Heavy Montreal
08/12 Toronto, ON Heavy Toronto
08/14 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
08/15 Detroit, MI St. Andrew’s
08/16 Chicago, IL House Blues
08/17 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
08/18 St. Paul, MN Station 4
08/20 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
08/22 Seattle, WA Showbox SODO
08/23 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
08/24 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
08/25 Anaheim, CA The Grove
End Tour
Between The Buried And Me and Job For A Cowboy
08/27 Tucson, AZ The Rock
08/29 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
08/30 Springfield, MO Remington’s
Europe:
Oct. 10 – Antwerp, Belgium – Trix *
Oct. 11 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Melkweg
Oct. 12 – Köln, Germany – Luxor
Oct. 13 – Münster, Germany – Sputnikhalle
Oct. 14 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
Oct. 16 – Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser Slussen
Oct. 17 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Sticky Fingers
Oct. 18 – Hamburg, Germany – Logo
Oct. 19 – Berlin, Germany – Lido
Oct. 20 – Prague, Czech Republic – Rock Café
Oct. 22 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Randall Club
Oct. 23 – Budapest, Hungary – Dürer Kert
Oct. 24 – Wien, Austria – Szene
Oct. 25 – München, Germany – Backstage
Oct. 27 – Novara, Italy – Rock´n´Roll Arena
Oct. 28 – Zürich, Switzerland – Dynamo
Oct. 29 – Stuttgart, Germany – Universum
Oct. 30 – Frankfurt, Germany – Batschkapp
Oct. 31 – Paris, France – La Maroquinerie
* No Periphery
Band members:
Dan Briggs: Bass
Blake Richardson: Drums
Tommy Rogers: Vocals, Keyboards
Paul Waggoner: Guitar
Dustie Waring: Guitar
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‘Between The Buried And Me’ New Video Interview [Quality Performance Footage Available] [Sept. 2011]
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‘Between The Buried And Me’ Confirm Appearances On The ‘Summer Slaughter Tour’ [April 2012]