Aug 25 2021
Between The Buried and Me @ The Complex - RESCHEDULED

Between The Buried and Me @ The Complex - RESCHEDULED

Presented by The Complex at The Complex

*This event was originally scheduled for 5/23/20. All previously purchased tickets are automatically valid for the new date.*

The Complex Presents

Between The Buried and Me
A special two set performance celebrating 21 years of BTBAM

Set 1: Career Spanning Set List
Set 2: The Great Misdirect In Its Entirety

Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 8:00 PM

What if dreams could be broadcast for the purpose of entertainment? Could you consume the innermost thoughts of another person on screen? If you could, what does that say about an attention-starved audience? More importantly, what would become of the dreamer?

Between The Buried and Me pose those questions and more on their two-part eighth full-length and introductory offering for Sumerian Records, Automata. The North Carolina quintet—Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. [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]—explore these themes by personally smashing boundaries once again. Automata marks the band’s first proper double LP-spanning concept. It sees them venture into new territory with visual accompaniment for the entire body of work. Moreover, they continue to expand their ever-evolving style, upholding a tradition of progression in the process.

“We never want to repeat ourselves,” affirms Paul. “We’re always trying to do something different, and this album fell right into that sort of pattern. We push ourselves into new places, while retaining our basic sound. Musically, we go somewhere that’s fun and challenging. We never know how it’s going to turn out. These are uncharted waters for us. We’ve never taken on a visual capacity of this magnitude. We’ve never written an entire piece and presented it in separate parts like this.”

Tommy agrees, “This many years into our career, we want to continue doing things differently.”

This approach cemented the group as progressive music’s most unpredictable outlier since its formation in 2000. Among many milestones, they released 2007’s watershed Colors followed by The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP in 2011 and The Parallax II: Future Sequence a year later. 2015 saw Coma Ecliptic elevate them to new heights yet again. Not only did it bow at #12 on the Billboard Top 200 (a career high for the band), but it also garnered widespread acclaim from NoiseyRevolverAlternative Press, and The Guardian who welcomed the album with a rare perfect score. In between, they launched countless sold out headline tours and support runs with the likes of Mastodon.

Now, they break more ground with Automata.

“Lyrically, I wanted to write something that I treated as a puzzle until it comes together at the end,” continues Tommy. “For as deep and dark as it is, there’s a positive outcome, which we’ve never had. The story follow a protagonist whose dreams are used as entertainment broadcasted by a company called Voice of Trespass. Most of the record takes place within that dream. The character thinks it’s all real.”

“Even though it takes place in the future, there are a lot of parallels to modern society,” adds Paul. “Oftentimes, we turn athletes, movie stars, and musicians into commodities. We forget that they’re real people with problems and issues. They’re society’s escape from reality as we use them for entertainment. Hence, society plays a role in their downfall, be it drug dependence, isolation, or even suicide. Society perpetuates mental illness with those expectations.”

Automata – Part I unveils the first six songs comprising the entire body of work. Stretching near seven minutes, “Condemned to the Gallows” kicks off this journey. Acoustic guitar builds in epic fashion before sweeping distortion takes hold followed by unpredictable rhythms and a seismic vocal performance which, as Tommy puts it, “sets up the whole story.”

Elsewhere, the trudging eight-minute guitar symphony of “Yellow Eyes” spirals into the melodic bliss of “Millions.”

“There are a lot of moments where we totally venture away from the traditional formula of what a progressive metal band can do,” states Dan. “There are all these little moments where we’ve done something we never did before. ‘Millions’ is the perfect example. It’s four-minutes of straight melody—another first.”

With Automata Part IPart II, and the myriad of visuals on the horizon, Between The Buried And Me realize their potential to its fullest—and go one step further.

“All of our music should build up to the newest record,” Tommy leaves off. “That’s what happens with Automata. You can take little snippets from our past throughout this album. It sounds like Between The Buried And Me, but it’s still new. We hope to keep the music industry on its toes. This is part of doing that.”

Admission Info

AGES: All Ages
DATE: Wednesday August 25, 2021
PRICE: $19.50 Adv + Fees

Phone: 8015289197

Email: info@thecomplexslc.com

Dates & Times

2021/08/25 - 2021/08/25

Location Info

The Complex

536 West 100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Parking Info

Public parking is available at The Gateway, 1 block east of The Complex in the Summer or Winter parking garages. Discounted all day parking vouchers can be purchased at The Complex concessions counter during any event for $5. ($1 off if you’re a Complex Crew Pass holder)

Unsecure street parking is available along 100 S. and 600 W. Please be cautious as there are areas of the street clearly marked as no parking zones; the city will ticket and/or tow your car if parked illegally. DO NOT leave valuables in your car. The Complex is not responsible for anything that happens to your car while parked on the street.

 

Trax

The Complex is one to two blocks away from 3 Trax stations: Salt Lake Central, Old Greek Town & Planetarium.