Between the Buried and Me 

Between the Buried and Me, often abbreviated as BTBAM, is an American progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2000, the band consists of Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. (lead vocals, keyboards), Paul Waggoner (lead guitar, backing vocals), Dustie Waring (rhythm guitar, lead guitar), Dan Briggs (bass, keyboards), and Blake Richardson (drums). Their debut eponymous album was released through Lifeforce Records in 2002, shifting to Victory Records for subsequent releases until their signing to Metal Blade in 2011, where Between the Buried and Me released their first extended play, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues that year, and its full-length follow-up The Parallax II: Future Sequence the following year. Their seventh studio album, Coma Ecliptic, was released in 2015. Their eighth album Automata I was released March 9, 2018, and their ninth album, Automata II, was released July 13, 2018. The band revealed on November 16, 2020, that they have been writing their upcoming tenth studio album and are recording it for a scheduled release sometime in 2021. On June 24, 2021, the band announced the release of their new album Colors II (follow-up to 2007’s Colors) through SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal channel. The album is set for release on August 20, 2021. The album’s first single, “Fix the Error”, was released online on June 25, 2021, along with a music video on July 7. In 2025, they are back with the album The Blue Nowhere. The album release is set for September 12, 2025. The first single Things We Tell Ourselves inthe Dark was released June, 12 2025.