{"id":27996,"date":"2026-02-18T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27996"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:41:41","slug":"a-place-to-bury-strangers-new-rarities-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=27996","title":{"rendered":"A Place To Bury Strangers &#8211; New rarities album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u00a0&#8216;<em>Rare And Deadly&#8217;<\/em><br><br>Out April 3rd via Dedstrange<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everyone&#039;s The Same\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqSi--vDvDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Heather Bickford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New-York based band&nbsp;<strong>A Place To Bury Strangers<\/strong>&nbsp;announce their new rarities album,&nbsp;<strong><em>Rare And Deadly<\/em><\/strong><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>out<strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>April 3rd<\/strong>&nbsp;via&nbsp;<strong>Dedstrange,&nbsp;<\/strong>and release the lead single, \u201c<strong>Everyone\u2019s The Same<\/strong>.\u201d Following 2024\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Synthesizer<\/em><\/strong>,&nbsp;<em>Rare and Deadly<\/em>&nbsp;cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos from A Place To Bury Strangers. Spanning 2015\u20132025, this collection of demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments reveals the band at their most unfiltered\u2014caught between breakthrough ideas and beautiful mistakes. Pulled from&nbsp;<strong>Oliver Ackermann<\/strong>\u2019s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions, these tracks pulse with the unruly energy that has always defined APTBS, but here the interference is closer, the electricity more dangerous, the edges left jagged on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APTBSPressPhotoDSC08315photobyHeatherBickford-9900000000079e3c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APTBSPressPhotoDSC08315photobyHeatherBickford-9900000000079e3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APTBSPressPhotoDSC08315photobyHeatherBickford-9900000000079e3c.jpg 900w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APTBSPressPhotoDSC08315photobyHeatherBickford-9900000000079e3c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/APTBSPressPhotoDSC08315photobyHeatherBickford-9900000000079e3c-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes&nbsp;<em>Rare and Deadly<\/em>&nbsp;truly unprecedented is that every format tells a different story. The CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital editions each feature their own unique tracklisting, a fractured release strategy that is almost unheard of. No single version contains the \u201ccomplete\u201d album. Instead, each format becomes its own window into the archive, revealing alternate paths, missing links, and parallel versions of the band\u2019s inner life. It\u2019s a deliberately unstable document: the album shifts depending on how you choose to hear it, mirroring the chaos of its creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across these recordings, you can hear the evolution of Ackermann\u2019s restless mind. Some pieces feel like prototypes for future chaos, seeds that later bloomed on studio albums. Others are dead ends\u2014ideas too volatile, too strange, or too personal to ever fit the frame of a proper release. But together they form a secret history of the band, a parallel world of possibilities that existed just outside the spotlight. The tracks contain riffs mutated by malfunctioning pedals, songs born from gear pushed past its limits, or delicate melodies overwhelmed by walls of feedback until only their ghosts remain, as on today\u2019s single, \u201cEveryone\u2019s The Same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on the track, Ackerman says: \u201cI had a dream where a man led me to a brook, peaceful and calm. When he turned his head slightly, I saw the most evil smile imaginable. But when I looked directly at him, it was just the back of his head again. Beauty and horror coexisting in the same space. It felt like hell leaking into something serene. Maybe that\u2019s reality sometimes. And maybe pretending otherwise is a kind of survival.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-t\/\"><strong>Stream<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-i\/\"><strong>&nbsp;\u201cEveryone\u2019s The Same\u201d<\/strong><\/a><br><br><em>Rare and Deadly<\/em>&nbsp;is less a compilation and more a documentary\u2014an aural snapshot of how sound takes shape before it hardens into something finished. You hear the room, the accidents, the restless experimentation, the immediacy of a moment being captured before it disappears. It\u2019s a reminder that A Place To Bury Strangers has always thrived in this in-between space: the tension between control and collapse, melody and noise, beauty and distortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-d\/\"><strong>Pre-order&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-h\/\"><strong><em>Rare And Deadly<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A Place To Bury Strangers Tour Dates:<\/strong><br>Tue. April 7 &#8211; Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz<br>Wed. April 8 &#8211; Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz<br>Thu. April 9 &#8211; Praha, CZ @ Futurum Music Bar<br>Fri. April 10 &#8211; Brno-m\u011bsto, CZ @ Kabinet m\u00faz<br>Sat. April 11 &#8211; Bratislava, SK @ PINK WHALE BAR<br>Sun. April 12 &#8211; Budapest, HU @ A38<br>Mon. April 13 &#8211; Belgrade, RS @ Karmakoma<br>Tue. April 14 &#8211; Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5<br>Wed. April 15 &#8211; Bucure\u0219ti, RO @ Control Club<br>Fri. April 17 &#8211; Thessaloniki, GR @ Eightball Club<br>Sat. April 18 &#8211; Athina, GR @ Gazarte<br>Mon. April 20 &#8211; Rome, IT @ Monk Club<br>Tue. April 21 &#8211; Florence, IT @ Ex Fila<br>Wed. April 22 &#8211; Bologna, IT @ Social Center TPO<br>Thu. April 23 &#8211; Milan, IT @ Santeria<br>Fri. April 24 &#8211; Zurich, CH @ Bogen F<br>Sun. April 26 &#8211; Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4<br>Mon. April 27 &#8211; Cologne, DE @ Geb\u00e4ude 9<br>Wed. April 29 &#8211; Utrecht, NL @ De Helling<br>Thu. April 30 &#8211; Deventer, NL @ Burgerweeshuis<br>Fri. May 1 &#8211; Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A Place To Bury Strangers online<br>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-q\/\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-a\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-f\/\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-z\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydtikkx-l-v\/\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8216;Rare And Deadly&#8217; Out April 3rd via Dedstrange Photo credit: Heather Bickford New-York based band&nbsp;A Place To Bury Strangers&nbsp;announce their new rarities album,&nbsp;Rare And Deadly,&nbsp;out&nbsp;April 3rd&nbsp;via&nbsp;Dedstrange,&nbsp;and release the lead single, \u201cEveryone\u2019s The Same.\u201d Following 2024\u2019s&nbsp;Synthesizer,&nbsp;Rare and Deadly&nbsp;cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos from A Place To Bury Strangers. 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