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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – “Absent Thereafter” (from The Blue Nowhere)

By capitalchaostv on July 30, 2025 • ( 0 )

With “Absent Thereafter,” Between the Buried and Me deliver a thrilling second glimpse into their upcoming album The Blue Nowhere (out Sept. 12 via InsideOutMusic), reaffirming their place as fearless architects of progressive metal.

Described by frontman Tommy Rogers as “fun, intense, spacy, and still fucking heavy,” the track encapsulates everything that makes BTBAM such a genre-defying force.

The song rides a dynamic rollercoaster of shifting time signatures, unexpected detours, and bursts of theatrical flair. Dan Briggs likens its energy to a “Van Halen shuffle” infused with “Huey Lewis and the News horns”—a bizarre yet strangely accurate comparison. There’s a whimsical, almost danceable undercurrent beneath the band’s trademark heaviness, layered with bombastic instrumentation and proggy eccentricities. It’s as if the band threw a cosmic carnival in a black hole—and invited you to do a do-si-do with death.

Following the equally adventurous lead single “Things We Tell Ourselves In The Dark,” “Absent Thereafter” confirms that The Blue Nowhere won’t be content to merely expand BTBAM’s sonic palette—it’s out to tear down genre walls entirely. If this track is any indication, fans can expect an album bursting with unpredictable shifts, lush orchestrations, and the kind of boundary-pushing ambition only BTBAM can pull off.

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