Complete List Of Between The Buried And Me Songs From A to Z

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Between the Buried and Me formed in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2000 through vocalist and keyboardist Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. and guitarist Paul Waggoner. The group developed a style that could move from metalcore and technical death metal into progressive rock, jazz fusion, electronic music, bluegrass, pop, and theatrical composition without treating those elements as separate genres.

The self-titled debut arrived in 2002 and established the band’s early combination of aggression, abrupt transitions, melodic vocals, and extended arrangements. The Silent Circus followed in 2003 with “Mordecai,” “Ad a Dglgmut,” “Camilla Rhodes,” and the two-part “Lost Perfection.”

Alaska introduced bassist Dan Briggs, drummer Blake Richardson, and guitarist Dustie Waring in 2005. That lineup joined Rogers and Waggoner for a run that included Colors, The Great Misdirect, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, Coma Ecliptic, Automata I, Automata II, and Colors II.

Colors became a defining progressive metal album through the uninterrupted sequence that runs from “Foam Born” to “White Walls.” The Great Misdirect expanded that approach with “Disease, Injury, Madness,” “Fossil Genera,” and the eighteen-minute “Swim to the Moon.”

The two-part Parallax narrative began with the 2011 EP Hypersleep Dialogues and continued through Future Sequence in 2012. The band later performed the full second chapter for Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium, one of several official releases documenting complete-album performances.

Coma Ecliptic arrived in 2015 as a theatrical concept album built around a character moving through imagined previous lives. The band followed it with the connected Automata releases in 2018 and the Grammy-nominated song “Condemned to the Gallows.”

Colors II returned to the scale and stylistic freedom of the 2007 album while developing a separate story and musical identity. “Fix the Error,” “Revolution in Limbo,” “Never Seen / Future Shock,” and “Human Is Hell” carried the band into its third decade.

The group became a four-piece of Rogers, Waggoner, Briggs, and Richardson before recording The Blue Nowhere. Released in September 2025, the album introduced “Things We Tell Ourselves in the Dark,” “God Terror,” “Absent Thereafter,” “Psychomanteum,” and the title track. A digital deluxe edition added “Overture” and instrumental versions of the album’s ten principal songs.

Additional recordings extended the catalog beyond the main albums. These include the 2016 “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Vertical Beta 461” single, the 2025 Nine Inch Nails interpretation “Hurt,” and “God Terror (Live in Denver 2025),” released in January 2026.

On July 31, 2026, Between the Buried and Me released “Jellybelly,” a cover of the Smashing Pumpkins song. The recording arrived while the band continued supporting The Blue Nowhere with international touring and represented another entry in a long history of reshaping material from outside progressive metal.