Between the Buried and Me on tour this fall
Globally celebrated progressive rock / cutting-edge metal innovators Between the Buried and Me (aka BTBAM) has announced a fall North American headlining tour in support of its new LP The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues. The award winning band will headline the 2011 “Saints & Sinners” Tour and launch the six week trek on 10/27 in Charlotte, NC. Support on the Between the Buried and Me tour will come from Animals as Leaders and TesseracT.
“It will be so exciting to get back out on the road and play some tunes for all our wonderful fans,” said BTBAM guitarist Paul Waggoner. “Our anticipation for this tour is massive and I hope that sentiment is shared by all the metal geeks out there. The bill is loaded with some of the most forward-thinking, virtuosic musicians in the genre and the audience can expect to hear all 12 notes in every humanly audible octave many times during the course of the evening!”
Released on April 12 via Metal Blade Records, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues is a three-song strong, 30 minute tour de force of modern heavy music. Produced and engineered by the Grammy award?winning David Bottrill (Tool, Muse, King Crimson, Dream Theater, etc.) 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.
“The response to the new album has been absolutely amazing!”, commented BTBAM’s Tommy Rogers. “It’s always a rewarding experience to hear excitement about the music we create. These days it’s hard to judge what people think of new music, and the feedback on tour and the Internet has really motivated us to create an even more bad ass record for the second part of ‘The Parallax’. See you all on tour!”
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues represents BTBAM’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.
The 2011 “Saints & Sinners” Tour featuring Between the Buried and Me
With Animals as Leaders and TesseracT
10/27 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
10/28 Silver Springs, MD The Fillmore Silver Springs
10/29 Asbury Park, NJ The Stone Pony (* Saints & Sinners Festival)
10/30 Boston, MA House of Blues (* Dillinger Escape Plan & Dredg support)
11/01 Richmond, VA The Hat Factory
11/02 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
11/03 Tampa, FL The Ritz Ybor
11/04 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
11/05 Orlando, FL The Beacham
11/06 Birmingham, AB Zydeco
11/08 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room
11/09 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
11/10 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
11/11 Chicago, IL House of Blues
11/12 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s
11/13 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
11/15 Little Rock, AR Juanita’s
11/16 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
11/17 Houston, TX House of Blues
11/18 Dallas, TX House of Blues
11/19 Austin, TX Emo’s (outside)
11/20 San Antonio, TX Backstage Live
11/22 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
11/23 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
11/25 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
11/26 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues (* Saints & Sinners Festival)
11/27 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
11/29 Boise, ID The Knitting Factory
11/30 Spokane, WA The Knitting Factory
12/01 Calgary, AB The Republik
12/02 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
12/03 Saskatoon, SK Louis’ Pub
12/04 Winnipeg, MB Garrick Center
12/07 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre
12/08 Montreal, QC Club Soda
12/09 Clifton Park, NJ Northern Lights
12/10 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts