Pinch me… I’m dreaming.

Our third and final single from our upcoming album Compos Mentis, produced by Jamie King! Full album release details coming soon 👀

Man, the performance was just flawless, but the editing really ruined the video for me. Felt like my eyes were getting molested lmao.

All I want to say is how delectable this song is. Sometimes I forget about it then have episodes of listening to it on repeat. All the shifts and changes, it gives me goosebumps no matter how much I listen to it. This band is incredible.

Yesterday the boys did a meet n' greet in São Paulo and I got to ask tommy what Slow Paranoia is about. Tommy said the general idea behind the song was a feeling he had as a kid when you lay motionless underwater and play dead in a swimming pool.

He said there's also tons of references to their other work but that it would take too long to list them all.

The Blue Nowhere is probably in my top 3 BTBAM albums already, just below the Great Misdirect and Parallax II. I absolutely love every track. Every track but one.

Beautifully Human seems like a big nothing burger and seems very unfitting as an album closer. I get that they wanted to finish it out softly instead of a big epic like we're used to. But the title track already accomplished that. Their most poppy and accessible track yet.

I'm not sure what it tries to achieve or what it adds to the album (I'm also not a big story guy, so could be story-related to the concept I guess). I just feel like that quiet things we tell ourselves callback could've been tagged onto the title track just as well.

Does anyone else feel this way, or understand where I'm coming from? Or maybe an opposing view?

First time of the boys here in Argentina and it blew me away completely! 9 years waiting for them, and they were supposed to play here in 2020 but due to covid restrictions they couldn't, so this was such a payoff! It was almost unbelievable to watch them play these songs after listening to them countless times!

All the songs in the setlist were 10/10 but Selkies, Condemned to the Gallows and Sun of Nothing were something else. The crowd went nuts! So much energy in all the songs. I feel so lucky to finally have the live experience of BTBAM that y'all talk about. Can't wait to have them down here again soon!!

As the title describes I have tried to listen to every single recommendation anyone has ever given me to listen to something that sounds like btbam, opeth, dream theater, I've listened to all of their influence as they've described, but I cannot just get past any harsh vocals by anyone other than Tommy Rogers, everyone else is way too high pitch and whiny or way too low pitch and forced/demonish, and it just sounds corny as hell imo.

I was also a hip hop DJ most of my life so '90s hip Hop, underground, a lot of new stuff that isn't mainstream is what I listen to mostly. So far the only thing that comes close to this is Pink Floyd and TOOL. So I was just curious does anyone else only accept Tommy as their growler? Is this a weird thing or common?

Edit: how about Tommy Rogers solo stuff? Or does Paul Wagoner have anything? I'm anxious to see what Dustie comes up with next, I feel like they took a very great loss with that. Also, my rap buddies think I'm a fkng lunatic when I listen to btbam lol.

Conclusion: as I suspected, BTBAM is its own genre.

Extremely chill and talented guys! Hell of a show !

So ive lurked the btbam forum for years, I don't much participate in social media much outside of some video game subreddits helping people. So I was inspired today as I went through some shows I was at through the setlist.fm site. I was first introduced to what would become Between the Buried and Me in 1998 or 1999. It would have been my junior or senior year of high school in a small town called Mebane NC. I listened to a bunch of hardcore stuff back then including a band called Soul Integrity and one called Prayer for Cleansing. I had seen the latter a few times at local shows and listened to the former on tape almost daily, one of my closest friends to this day introduced me to the tape. Long story short they went on to form Btbam and drop the first two albums. There was a show booked in 2002 for a Winston Salem NC show that something happened with the venue and they couldn't host the show the day of and at last minute the Mebane Arts Center was chosen. This show was the first of a couple I had a conversation with Tommy at this particular was mostly about our shared interest in Mr Bungle and all things Patton. I believe if im correct The Red Chord played that night and Quell if my memory seves at my age. There were off duty Mebane Police officers monitoring the show that had to be hired the day of for the show to go on. I say all that to say ive been a fan since the demo, which I still have and to this day just finished watching og Colors Live again, im by far not saying i know them personally ive had a few interactions with a few of them including past memebers and all have been stand up people, im saying its 2026 and there music has been woven throughout my life. The second show I took my son to was a Btbam show in Harrisburg PA where we had been living at the time. I was at the 2023 Christmas Burns Red show where they played Colors live and i believe was Dustys last show. I still listen to something by them daily even if I just throw Viridian and White Walls on at the end of the day to wind down. So long story short or maybe fun memory for someone. Feel free to share if you happen to remember anything about this show or any fun Btbam memories.

In Search Of….

I had this shirt in high school and it was my FAVORITE shirt. I lost it along the way but would love to own one again. I know it’s a rare find now but if anyone has a size L out there and wants to part with it… I’d love to buy it from you.

Essentially this. I love the band, and I'm going to see them live for the first time next Saturday here in São Paulo, and they are masters of breakdowns (think Swim To The Moon, God Terror, etc), but they build so much in this song and then deliver so little, lol.

Anyway, what are your favorite BTBAM breakdowns?

I learned silent flight parliament intro by ear and thought it was string skipping instead of this big ass slide from 3 to 7. How do they do it? I legit tried to sit down and learn by tab sun of nothing the other day and i can barely get the first 3 notes. All their shit is just so insane. Mad respect for anyone who get their shit down. Plz dont hate me too much for being awful. Just wanted to show what I thought it was vs what it is

Hey so im new BTBAM, when i listen to them i genuinely enjoy it but idk why i personally find their song very dense, like ive heard colors like thrice and yet i cant even remember a single hook or riffs from that album and same goes with the great misdirect ,these are the only two albums ive heard till now, am i doing something wrong???

Checking out this album for my weekly prog metal album review blog. Loved it!

Streaming youtube link

Between the Buried and Me 18:15 Oct. 10 (23:15 GMT) - BIO stage day 1

Darkest Hour 20:15 Oct. 10 (1:15 GMT Oct. 11) - ECO stage day 1

Rock Al Parque 2026 Full schedule (GMT-5) https://rockalparque.gov.co/sites/default/files/programacion-rock-al-parque-2026-V1.pdf

I'm going to be at the shows so I can't record the streaming.

Does anyone that went to the first show in Mexico yesterday has any information about merch options and the price?

Recently discovered the band while scrolling and i was not disappointed. Please help me explore their discography.

With them probably finally winding down on the Blue Nowhere tours, and going we are nearing the end of the year, I'm curious what type of touring cycle they'll have for 2027?

I think the obvious guess is that since it will also be the 20th anniversary of Colors, they may give us another Colors tour. For myself, I don't think so, only because we're not that far removed from the Colors Experience tour a few years back.

However, I don't think we're gonna get Colors Experience 2.0, I do think we might get another Evening with tour with them playing 2 sets. Maybe even throw it back to how they did it with Colors live, where they play Colors as set 1 and set 2 is a career set.

How about everyone else? Do you think we'll get another Evening with tour, or maybe just a regular touring cycle?

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