BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: Video Interview, Performance Footage Available

November 6, 2007

A 16-minute video clip featuring interview and performance footage of BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME taken by the White Noise Metal Video Podcast on October 14, 2007 at the Oakland Metro can be viewed below.

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME may love to explore musical styles ranging from folk music to bluegrass, but don't ever doubt this is first and foremost a heavy metal band.

"It's what we like," lead singer and keyboardist Tommy Rogers told That BS Dude on Episode 3 of the White Noise Metal Video Podcast. "It's what we've always written. We all grew up on metal. We always played metal. It's what comes natural. Yeah, we experiment with other forms of music but I couldn't imagine not playing metal."

In a wide-ranging interview that alternates with performance video from the band's set at the Oakland Metro, BTBAM talks in depth about the songs "Sun of Nothing" and "Ants of the Sky".

"The whole song is a big story," Rogers said about "Sun of Nothing". "I've never really tried to write any stories before this record. It's just about a guy that gets fed up with the world and he decides to build a spaceship and kill himself by shooting a spaceship into the sun. It's about his thought process going from his takeoff to his death. Just what's going through his head and his regrets."

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME isn't the kind of music you put on at a party as background sound. Rogers acknowledges "Colors" demands a lot from the listener.

"It takes a lot of listening," the singer and keyboard player added. "I think that's what's fun about our records. You can listen to it ten times in a row and hear something new every single time. When I listen to music it excites me when music is like that so I hope our fans can kind of get that same thing going."

The band also discusses the "Hootenanny" section near the end of "Ants of the Sky".

"We actually recreated that whole bar scene," Rogers said. "It was about five takes of us just goofing off. Blake recorded some pool balls getting hit together."

"We thought it tied into the song," guitarist Paul Waggoner said. "The chord progression was the same so it didn't seem all that out of place to us."

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