A Place To Bury Strangers lead single ‘Everyone’s The Same’ from new album ‘Rare And Deadly’

A Place To Bury Strangers | Photo credit: Heather Bickford

New-York based band A Place To Bury Strangers announce their new rarities album, Rare And Deadly, out April 3rd via Dedstrange, and release the lead single, ‘Everyone’s The Same.’ Following 2024’s Synthesizer, Rare and Deadly cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos from A Place To Bury Strangers. Spanning 2015–2025, this collection of demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments reveals the band at their most unfiltered—caught between breakthrough ideas and beautiful mistakes. Pulled from Oliver Ackermann’s 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.

What makes Rare and Deadly 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 “complete” album. Instead, each format becomes its own window into the archive, revealing alternate paths, missing links, and parallel versions of the band’s inner life. It’s a deliberately unstable document: the album shifts depending on how you choose to hear it, mirroring the chaos of its creation.

Across these recordings, you can hear the evolution of Ackermann’s restless mind. Some pieces feel like prototypes for future chaos, seeds that later bloomed on studio albums. Others are dead ends—ideas 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’s single, ‘Everyone’s The Same.’

Reflecting on the track, Ackerman says: “I 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’s reality sometimes. And maybe pretending otherwise is a kind of survival.”

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Rare and Deadly is less a compilation and more a documentary—an 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’s 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.

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Rare And Deadly Tracklist:
1. Acid Rain
2. Crash
3. Dead Inside
4. Deranged
5. Do It All Again
6. Does It Grow In The Garden
7. Energy
8. Everyone’s The Same
9. Everything Comes Back
10. Hatred Grows
11. Heartless
12. I Don’t Want To Wait
13. Losing Time
14. Lost
15. My Heart Is Chained
16. On The Wire
17. Out Of Place
18. Rearrange
19. Resurrected
20. So Ok
21. Song For Girl From Macedonia
22. The Nature Of Your Heart
23. Time
24. Where Are We Now
25. You Know It When You Know It

Rare And Deadly Tracklists Per Format

A Place To Bury Strangers Tour Dates:
Tue. April 7 - Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz
Wed. April 8 - Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
Thu. April 9 - Praha, CZ @ Futurum Music Bar
Fri. April 10 - Brno-město, CZ @ Kabinet múz
Sat. April 11 - Bratislava, SK @ PINK WHALE BAR
Sun. April 12 - Budapest, HU @ A38
Mon. April 13 - Belgrade, RS @ Karmakoma
Tue. April 14 - Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5
Wed. April 15 - București, RO @ Control Club
Fri. April 17 - Thessaloniki, GR @ Eightball Club
Sat. April 18 - Athina, GR @ Gazarte
Mon. April 20 - Rome, IT @ Monk Club
Tue. April 21 - Florence, IT @ Ex Fila
Wed. April 22 - Bologna, IT @ Social Center TPO
Thu. April 23 - Milan, IT @ Santeria
Fri. April 24 - Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
Sun. April 26 - Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4
Mon. April 27 - Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9
Wed. April 29 - Utrecht, NL @ De Helling
Thu. April 30 - Deventer, NL @ Burgerweeshuis
Fri. May 1 - Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival 2026

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