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Between the Buried and Me was founded in 2000 in Raleigh, North Carolina by vocalist Thomas Giles RogersJr.,guitarist Paul
Waggoner,drummer WillGood year, guitarist Nick Fletcher (formerly of Empire Falls), and bassist Jason King. The band's name is derived from
a sectionof lyrics intheCountingCrows song, 'Ghost Train': "Took the cannon ball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to
shining sea/Irode a ladder thatclimbed across the nation/Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me".
Between The Buried And Me's first release was a three-song demo, containing ...read more
Between the Buried and Me was founded in 2000 in Raleigh, North Carolina by vocalist Thomas Giles RogersJr.,guitarist Paul
Waggoner,drummer WillGood year, guitarist Nick Fletcher (formerly of Empire Falls), and bassist Jason King. The band's name is derived from
a sectionof lyrics intheCountingCrows song, 'Ghost Train': "Took the cannon ball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to
shining sea/Irode a ladder thatclimbed across the nation/Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me".
Between The Buried And Me's first release was a three-song demo, containing the tracks 'Use Of A Weapon','What We Have Become',
and'More Of MyselfTo Kill'. These three tracks were re-recorded for the band's self-titled debut album, released through Life force Records
in2002. The album includes thetrack 'Arsonist', a protest against the beliefs and practices of the Westboro Baptist Church in
Topeka,Kansas.The song 'Aspirations' became the band'sfirst music video. At the time,the release was not widely known, but did manage to
catch theattention ofVictory Records, to which they later signed.Victory reissued the album in 2004 as an enhanced CD.
In 2003, the band released their second studio album,The Silent Circus, featuring the singles
'Mordecai','Aesthetic',and'CamillaRhodes'.'Mordecai'was produced as their second music video. The album was re-released in 2006 with a live
DVD of the band's performanceat The Cat's Cradle in ChapelHill, North Carolina on July 17,2005. Mark Castillo played drums on The
SilentCircus,replacingWillGoodyear,though for the live DVD BlakeRichardson, Dustie Waring, and Dan Briggs had already joined the band,
and recording for the third BetweenThe Buried And Me album,Alaska,wasalready finished.
After the release of The Silent Circus, the band went through numerous members before the current line up was assembled
forAlaska. Ondrums, Mark Castillo was replaced by Jason Roe, and later by Blake Richardson. On guitar, Nick Fletcher was replaced
byShane Blay, and later by DustieWaring. And on bass, Jason King (not to be confused with their engineer/producer JamieKing)was replaced
byKevin Falk, and later by Dan Briggs. Thisremains the current lineup.
In the summer of 2005, Between The Buried And Me released their third studio album, Alaska. The title track became their third
musicvideo. Thealbum featured the songs 'Selkies: The Endless Obsession', 'The Primer', and 'Backwards Marathon' as singles. Then in the
followingyear, the bandreleased The Anatomy Of, a collection of covers of bands that influenced Between The Buried And Me, including
Metallica,King Crimson, Pantera,Queen, Pink Floyd, Earth Crisis, Counting Crows, and Soundgarden.
In September 2007, the band released their fourth studio album, Colors. Band members have said that "it's a 65 minute opus of non-
stop,pummeling, beautiful music... we have described this release as 'new wave polkagrunge'."The band has also described the album as "
adultcontemporary progressive death metal".
On November 6, 2008 the song 'Prequel To The Sequel' was made available as downloadable content for the video game RockBand2, for
freedown loadto users who redeemed a one-time use code in new copies of the game. Since then, the tracks 'Mordecai','Obfuscation','Alaska'
and'Selkies:The EndlessObsession' have also been made available via the Rock Band Network.
On May 31, 2009, the group went into the studio to record their fifth original album,The Great Misdirect. They have described one
songas having"a noisy Coalesce breakdown, 3/4 Mastodon groove, 9/8 The MarsVolta, Queen chromatic build up,and
Megadethchorus".Tommy Giles Rogers hadstated that they planned to "outdo Colors".
In early fall 2010, the group confirmed that they were recording an EP, which was cited as being a possible precursor for their next full-
lengthalbum. InOctober 2010, they put up a video on their YouTube account with the band in the studio. January18 a second teaser with
them inthe studio was posted.
On February 21, 2011, Between The Buried And Me stated their move from Victory to Metal Blade Records, on which they released
theirEP,entitledTheParallax: Hypersleep Dialogues on April 12, 2011.
In May, Victory Records announced the release of a greatest hits album as a three-disc set.On January 16, 2012, Between The Buried And
Merevealedthat work on the part two to The Parallax has begun and it will be a full-length album rather than an EP.
The band's latest album, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, was released through Metal Blade Records on October 9th, 2012.
On March 17, 2015 they announced that Coma Ecliptic will be released through Metal Blade Records on July 7, 2015, and released asong
titled"Memory Palace". It was later released July 10, 2015.
From 2015 - 2017, Between the Buried and Me went out on their Coma Ecliptic World Tour and headlined with / co-headlined for
AugustBurnsRed,Animals as Leaders, Devin Townsend Project, Fallujah, Enslaved and The Contortionist.
The band released "Coma Ecliptic: Live" on April 28, 2017, which has their entire "Coma Ecliptic" album played live in its entirety.
In the fall of 2017, Between the Buried and Me toured for the Colors 10th Anniversary Tour where they performed the whole album.
Recording of the band's upcoming eighth full-length album began on July 31, 2017 and finished on September 6, with the release
datescheduled in early2018.
It was revealed on December 28, 2017, via bassist Dan Briggs' Twitter account, how Between The Buried and Me had finished recording
atleast onetrack of a release separate from the eighth studio album completed in September 2017. Further statements from Briggs helped
toverify the band'sforthcoming material as a full-length to be supplemented by a shorter extended play.
In January 2018, the band announced Automata, a two-part studio album, with a supplement extended play to be released later
intime.Automata I,partone of the album, was announced a release date of March 9, 2018 via Sumerian Records. The second part, Automata
II,is scheduled to be released onJuly 13, 2018.
Their 'Between the Buried and Me Spring 2018 Tour' was announced as well, spanning March 2, 2018 to April 7, 2018 across the
contiguousUnitedStates. The tour would be supported by The Dear Hunter with special guests Leprous. Additionally, it was announced on the
ThomasGiles Instagramhowan exclusive split seven inch single between Between the Buried and Me and The Dear Hunter would be available
for VIPpackage buyers on the tour.The split 7" would contain each band recording their interpretation of an existing song from the other
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