New York noise-rock force A Place To Bury Strangers announce their rarities collection ‘Rare And Deadly,’ out April 3 via Dedstrange, alongside the release of lead single “Everyone’s The Same.” Arriving on the heels of 2024’s ‘Synthesizer,’ the new album pulls from a decade of demos, B-sides and unreleased experiments spanning 2015 to 2025.
Drawn from Oliver Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings and abandoned sessions, the material captures the band in raw form. These tracks sit somewhere between breakthrough and collapse, with blown-out textures, fractured melodies and pedals pushed beyond their limits. “Everyone’s The Same” channels that tension, layering beauty and distortion until the edges blur.
Reflecting on the track, Ackermann shares: “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.”
‘Rare And Deadly’ also arrives with an unusual release concept. The CD, cassette, vinyl and digital editions each feature entirely different tracklists, meaning no single format contains the same version of the album. Every edition opens a separate window into the band’s archive, creating a shifting document that mirrors the instability and electricity at its core.