Modern prog metal masters Between The Buried And Me just announced new dates for an upcoming European tour. These 19 evenings will undoubtedly be special ones, as the band revealed that they intend to play two distinct sets each night! Maybe we will even get another supporting band in addition to the double-feature BTBAM fun!
Between The Buried And Me toured Europe supporting TesseracT last autumn. They only had 50 minutes to perform then, and it was their second European support run in recent memory after filling the co-headlining spot on a tour with Devin Townsend Project and Leprous in 2017. It’s been 2015 (!!) when Between The Buried And Me were on their last true headlining run in Europe. Therefore, we now get two sets per night, which is definitely something to be excited about.
Dan Briggs just commented the following on loudersound.com:
‘The “evening with” set is a curation of almost 20 years of music with the specific intent on realising what it all means in 2019 – how did we arrive here and where do we go? Sometimes the process of realisation comes from breathing new life into old material. Over the two sets of music, there’s a four-part arc that will play out in the form of one cohesive night of music spanning 2002-2019.‘
Many of us are probably hoping to see The Great Misdirect in full, since it turns ten years old in October! Anyway, this sounds like there will be a good mixture throughout the band’s discography; I’m super excited to see some old favorites! Perhaps Between The Buried And Me will do something related to their overarching band concept, starting with “Lost Perfection”, over “Sun Of Nothing” and “Fossil Genera”/”Swim To The Moon” to The Parallax, and then something off Coma Ecliptic and their latest output Automata. There’s a cohesive line that pulls their story together. We’ll see about this theory once the tour rolls around, I guess.
The tour dates are as follows:
19.09 – Haarlem Patronaat, Netherlands
20.09 – Antwerp Trix Club, Belgium
21.09 – Wiesbaden Kesselhaus, Germany
22.09 – Berlin Lido, Germany
24.09 – Stockholm Sodra Teatern, Sweden
25.09 – Oslo John Dee, Norway
26.09 – Copenhagen Vega Small Hall, Denmark
27.09 – Hamburg Knust, Germany
28.09 – Cologne Essigfabrik, Germany
30.09 – Vienna Szene, Austria
01.10 – Munich Backstage Halle, Germany
02.10 – Zurich Dynamo, Switzerland
04.10 – Barcelona Salamandra, Spain
05.10 – Madrid Sala Mon, Spain
06.10 – Toulouse Connexion Live, France
07.10 – Nantes Le Ferrailleur, France
08.10 – Paris Le Forum, France
09.10 – Manchester Academy 2, UK
10.10 – London Electric Ballroom, UK
Tickets go on sale this Friday! Make sure to follow BTBAM on their Facebook page!
