BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME // It’s a Pirate’s Life for Thee

Financially it hurts, but the demise of the CD and the rise of the digital stream can take a band’s music to places they’ve never even visited before.

Take Between The Buried and Me’s story for example. Bassist Dan Briggs was amazed to find us Aussies furiously chewing through the American progressive metal act’s tunes during the early 2000s, unbeknown to the outfit. That was until the band touched down in Australia for the first time close to ten years ago.

“For us it (Australia) was only one of the foreign countries that we went to and from the very first time we played there, there was already a built in fanbase. The shows felt like they do here in America and that was awesome. There’s only a couple of places, like Mexico, Mexico is like that, and strangely enough Finland, Finland has always been like that… Everywhere else it’s been a long grind and a lot of work and for some reason Australia has just been awesome from the get go.”

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 “[F]or some reason Australia has just been awesome from the get go.”

[DAN]

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Despite much label presence the Between The Buried and Me Australian fan base still continued to grow. That could be attributed to the new wave of kids sailing the seamlessly easy seas of online downloading. Asked whether pirating music was a hindrance to the band, Briggs responded with his own kind of confession.

“By the time our band really got going and stuff in the mid 2000s, we never made money off album sales ever, so we never knew what it was like before … we’ve been a band for 14 years or whatever and that just never existed in our world so we’ve never known that. We’re the kind of generation that came up using Napster, using Kazaa, Audiogalaxy, whatever all those streaming sites were like in the early 2000s, I mean they weren’t streaming they were illegal downloading. We were doing that of course, I was in highschool, poor as fuck, I couldn’t afford music or anything you know, but I was starving for new music. It was that age where you were just taking everything in and trying to form your identity…”

So there’s no hard feelings towards us law breaking Aussies it seems.

WATCH: The Coma Machine from latest album Coma Ecliptic

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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME The Coma Ecliptic Tour IV AUSTRALIA 2016

With special guests Chon

Thursday 25 February – Rosemount Hotel, Perth
Friday 26 February – Fowlers Live, Adelaide
Saturday 27 February – Max Watt’s, Brisbane
Sunday 28 February – Metro Theatre, Sydney
Monday 29 February – 170 Russell, Melbourne

Tickets available via Destroy All Lines