Between the Buried and Me

Between the Buried and Me
Between the Buried and Me performing in August 2018 From left to right: Paul Waggoner, Tommy Giles Rogers Jr., Blake Richardson, Dan Briggs, Dustie Waring
Background information
Origin	Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Genres	Progressive metalcore progressive metal metalcore technical death metal
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Lifeforce Victory Metal Blade Sumerian
Members	Tommy Giles Rogers Paul Waggoner Dan Briggs Blake Richardson Dustie Waring
Past members	Will Goodyear Nicholas Fletcher Jason King Mark Castillo Kevin Falk Shane Blay Jason Roe

Between the Buried and Me, often abbreviated as BTBAM, is an American progressive metalcore band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2000, the band consists of Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. (lead vocals, keyboards), Paul Waggoner (guitar, backing vocals), Dan Briggs (bass, keyboards), Dustie Waring (guitar) and Blake Richardson (drums).

Their debut eponymous album was released through Lifeforce Records in 2002, shifting to Victory Records for subsequent releases until their signing to Metal Blade in 2011, where Between the Buried and Me released their first extended play, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues that year, and its full-length follow-up The Parallax II: Future Sequence the following year. Their seventh studio album, Coma Ecliptic, was released in July 2015. Their eighth album Automata I was released in March 2018, and their ninth album, Automata II, was released in July 2018. Their tenth album, Colors II (a follow-up to 2007's Colors), was released in August 2021.