Between the Buried and Me have been doing excellent at keeping themselves on the radar this year. Frontman Tommy Rogers has a new solo project album coming out, bassist Dan Briggs has a new Orbs and Trioscapes album cooking up and the band themselves are filming a live in-studio performance of The Parallax II: Future Sequence. Now Briggs tells Metal Assault that the band are aiming to cook up a new record in the fall.
BTBAM might be doing something in the summer and will probably start writing in the fall. I’ve already started writing and I probably have 3 or 4 things that have started to get a little bit developed that haven’t been shared yet. We’ll do that closer to the end of summer. You need time to decompress out of this whole Parallax world before you really settle into starting something new.
I feel like it’’ still pretty fresh with us, and the stuff that at least I’ve been writing is different. Doing the concept record format was so great and I’m really curious to try and take that next step further. I’ve been listening to a lot of The Who, the Quadrophenia and Tommy records. I love the rock opera format. It’s so cool.
The stuff that I’ve been writing is kind of more over-the-top super big thematic, and I think we’re really interested to take some leaps and bounds in different directions. We’ve done this thing pretty solidly for a couple of records and we’ve got to see what else is out there.”
I'm interested in a few areas of this statement.
- What's this "something in the summer" thing? The Silent Circus was released in 2003 and Alaska was released in 2005, so there's no anniversary tour to be had. Plus the band are touring right now anyway with Deafheaven, so I guess we'll see what's up with that.
- No more Parallax! Listen, I love both of those records to death but Parallax II ended the story nicely. Time to do something else and maybe spread the ol' creative wings in a different direction.
- Between the Buried and Me rock opera? Interesting. obviously Briggs isn't implying that at all but it would be cool to see the band veer a little to the lighter side and try something like that.
I think it's safe to assume I won't be talking about this again until the end of this year, maybe the start of 2015… but now I'm intrigued.
