{"id":28148,"date":"2026-03-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28148"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:00:52","slug":"a-place-to-bury-strangers-new-single-ahead-of-rarities-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=28148","title":{"rendered":"A Place To Bury Strangers new Single ahead of rarities album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New rarities album,\u00a0&#8216;<em>Rare And Deadly&#8217;,\u00a0<\/em>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-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Place To Bury Strangers - Where Are We Now (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ix91JINVJ8M?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>New York based band\u00a0<strong>A Place To Bury Strangers<\/strong>\u00a0release \u201c<strong>Where Are We Now<\/strong>,\u201d the third single\/video from their new rarities album,\u00a0<strong><em>Rare And Deadly<\/em><\/strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em>out<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>April 3rd<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0<strong>Dedstrange<\/strong>. Following the \u201cfull-on sonic attack\u201d (<em>Consequence<\/em>) of \u201c<strong>Acid Rain<\/strong>,\u201d on which \u201cfrontman\u00a0<strong>Oliver Ackermann\u00a0<\/strong>delivers deadpan, near-chanted lyrics about systemic cruelty,\u201d (<em>Consequence<\/em>)\u00a0 \u201cWhere Are We Now\u201d finds A Place To Bury Strangers reflecting on the past: \u201cWhere are we now \/\/ Is it too late \/\/ Should I reach out \/\/ Where we are now \/\/ caught in our lives \/\/did our dreams fade.\u201d Ackermann says the song is about \u201clooking back at friends you lost touch with. Wondering where they ended up. Remembering when everything felt possible.\u201d The accompanying video was put together by Ackermann with footage from the Library of Congress National Archives. Ackermann says he made the video because \u201cI think we need to look at people more and see the value and wonder of life so we can be compassionate towards others.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rare and Deadly\u00a0cracks 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 Ackermann\u2019s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions, here the interference is closer, the electricity more dangerous, the edges left jagged on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HolgerNitschke-120004jpg-9900000000079e3c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"887\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HolgerNitschke-120004jpg-9900000000079e3c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HolgerNitschke-120004jpg-9900000000079e3c.jpg 900w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HolgerNitschke-120004jpg-9900000000079e3c-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HolgerNitschke-120004jpg-9900000000079e3c-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HolgerNitschke-120004jpg-9900000000079e3c-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/RareAndDeadlyAlbumCover-9900000000079e3c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><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-ydidirit-l-i\/\"><strong>Pre-order&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydidirit-l-d\/\"><strong><em>Rare And Deadly<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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><strong>A Place To Bury Strangers Online:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydidirit-l-f\/\">Website<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydidirit-l-z\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydidirit-l-v\/\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydidirit-l-e\/\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prescriptionpr.createsend1.com\/t\/j-i-ydidirit-l-s\/\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New rarities album,\u00a0&#8216;Rare And Deadly&#8217;,\u00a0out April 3rd via Dedstrange New York based band\u00a0A Place To Bury Strangers\u00a0release \u201cWhere Are We Now,\u201d the third single\/video from their new rarities album,\u00a0Rare And Deadly,\u00a0out\u00a0April 3rd\u00a0via\u00a0Dedstrange. Following the \u201cfull-on sonic attack\u201d (Consequence) of \u201cAcid Rain,\u201d on which \u201cfrontman\u00a0Oliver Ackermann\u00a0delivers deadpan, near-chanted lyrics about systemic cruelty,\u201d (Consequence)\u00a0 \u201cWhere Are We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9052],"class_list":["post-28148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a-pllace-to-bury-strangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28152,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions\/28152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}