New-York based band A Place To Bury Strangers announce their rarities album, Rare And Deadly, out 3 April 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 A Place To Bury Strangers, 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 new 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.”
A Place To Bury Strangers Live Dates
April
7 – Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz
8 – Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz
9 – Praha, CZ @ Futurum Music Bar
10 – Brno-město, CZ @ Kabinet múz
11 – Bratislava, SK @ PINK WHALE BAR
12 – Budapest, HU @ A38
13 – Belgrade, RS @ Karmakoma
14 – Sofia, BG @ Mixtape 5
15 – București, RO @ Control Club
17 – Thessaloniki, GR @ Eightball Club
18 – Athina, GR @ Gazarte
20 – Rome, IT @ Monk Club
21 – Florence, IT @ Ex Fila
22 – Bologna, IT @ Social Center TPO
23 – Milan, IT @ Santeria
24 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
26 – Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4
27 – Cologne, DE @ Gebäude 9
29 – Utrecht, NL @ De Helling
30 – Deventer, NL @ Burgerweeshuis
May
1 – Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival 2026
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