Grammy Award nominated progressive metallers BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME have announced their highly anticipated new album, ‘Colors II’ today. The album will be released on Friday, August 20th via Sumerian Records with pre-orders available now from betweentheburiedandme.com.
To celebrate the announcement, Between The Buried And Me have dropped the first single “Fix The Error“. The track premiered on SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal and features drum solos from an ironclad trifecta of Mike Portnoy, Navene Koperweis, and Ken Schalk. Find “Fix The Error” on streaming platforms here.
Between The Buried and Me built their influential 2007 album, “Colors”, on an unwavering commitment to artistic integrity. Theyโve only fortified that commitment on its 2021 sequel, “Colors II” [Sumerian Records]. The circumstances surrounding both records bear key similarities, yet the North Carolina quintetโTommy Rogers [lead vocals, keyboards], Paul Waggoner [lead and rhythm guitar, backing and lead vocals], Dustie Waring [rhythm and lead guitar], Blake Richardson [drums], and Dan Briggs [bass, keyboards]โo nce again stretch the boundaries of their signature sound and heavy music at large.
โEspecially with 2020, we really wanted to give it all we could and show the world weโre still here,โ explains Tommy. โThatโs part of the reason we named it ‘Colors II’. We were in a similar spot when we did the first ‘Colors’. Back then, we had just gotten done with OZZfest. We were wondering, โWhere do we belong in this music scene?โ We still struggle with that. At both of these moments in our career, we decided to just be ourselves and write the best album we can. We came out guns blazing, and I feel like itโs some of our most creative material in a long timeโ. โ’Colors’ was very much our attempt at a do-or-die statementโ, recalls Paul. โWe had to establish our identity and be who we really wanted to be in order to have a career. This time around, our industry was shutdown for a year. Once tours were cancelled due to the Pandemic, we were like, โWeโve got to write a record, and itโs got to be goodโ. We had to do something next levelโ.
With nearly 20 years of hard-earned experience behind them, Between The Buried And Me have seen enormous success and gathered huge critical acclaim. Their fourth offering “Colors” represented the first in a series of high watermarks. It graced numerous tastemaker lists, including KERRANG!โs โThe 21 Best U.S. Metalcore Albums of All Timeโ, Prog Magazine’s โThe 100 Greatest Prog Albums of All Time,โ ThoughtCoโs โEssential Progressive Metal Albums,โ and Loudwireโs โTop 25 Progressive Metal Albums of All Timeโ and โTop 100 Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Albums of the 21st Century.โ In its wake, 2015โs ‘Coma Ecliptic’ opened at #12 on the Billboard Top 200 and received a perfect rating from The Guardian. During 2018, they unleashed the two-part ‘Automata I’ and ‘Automata II’ to further acclaim and a Grammy Nomination. Along the way, the group toured with everyone from Mastodon and Coheed and Cambria to Lamb of God and Devin Townsend in addition to selling out headline shows around the globe. The band are also one of the only musical acts to have a rare species of prehistoric Starfish, discovered in 2018, named after them. The Amphilimna intersepultosetme (the literal Latin translation of their name) lived 67 million years ago in South Carolina.
