Between The Buried And Me ink a deal with Inside Out Music and announce a new album

After 25 years and 10 albums that have marked the history of their career, GRAMMY® nominees Between The Buried And Me return with their most engaging and eclectic album yet: “The Blue Nowhere,” out September 12, 2025, on Inside Out Music. This album also marks the band’s debut on the German label.

According to Tommy Rogers, a singer known for his concept albums, this 10-track collection “exists in a world that is not tied to a plot. It’s more of a feeling, where the songs live for me.” He also describes the lyrical approach of “The Blue Nowhere” as “diary entries, fleeting and introspective thoughts, sometimes chaotic, depending on the music.”

The first single, “Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark,” is available today with a video directed by Miles Skarin:

Produced by longtime collaborator Jamie King, “The Blue Nowhere” is also Between the Buried and Me‘s first album to feature an extensive string and horn section. It is available in a special edition on CD, 2LP with gatefold cover, and in digital format. The deluxe Gatefold Special Colored 2LP + 2CD edition includes a bonus track on side D, the entire album and instrumental tracks on 2CDs, an exclusive door hanger, and alternative artwork. Pre-orders are available tomorrow at Betweentheburiedandme.com.

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

Director Miles Skarin shares insight into the clip: 

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!

This track emerged from the maniac genius of Dan Briggs. 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. Tommy Rogers

Dan Briggs adds:

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.

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

Between the Buried and Me have built a reputation as one of heavy music’s most forward-thinking and creatively ambitious bands. Over the past 25 years, they have released ten albums, from their 2002 self-titled debut to 2021’s “Colors II”, blending technical mastery with conceptual depth. Throughout their career their albums have consistently landed on year-end best-of lists, earned a GRAMMY® nomination in 2019 (with the award’s website praising their music as “versatile, imaginative and absolutely crushing the band’s music”), been dubbed “prog metal heroes” by Kerrang!, and praised by Guitar World for their “epic” and “hugely diverse” sound. 

Between The Buried And Me is:
Tommy Rogers – vocals/keys
Paul Waggoner – guitars
Dan Briggs bass/keys
Blake Richardson – drums