Noise-rock titans A Place To Bury Strangers have announced the release of Rare and Deadly, a decade-spanning collection of unreleased material arriving April 3rd via Dedstrange. Pulled from founder Oliver Ackermann’s personal archives, the album serves as a raw “secret history” of the band between 2015 and 2025. The announcement is accompanied by the lead single “Everyone’s The Same,” a track that balances delicate melody against the band’s signature walls of feedback.
Of the single, Ackermann describes,
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… Beauty and horror coexisting in the same space. It felt like hell leaking into something serene. Maybe that’s reality sometimes.
The release is defined by an almost unprecedented “fractured” strategy: no single format contains the complete album. The vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital versions each feature their own unique tracklistings, forcing the listener to experience different fragments of the band’s history depending on how they consume the music. This unstable structure mirrors the recordings themselves; a mix of blown-out tapes, malfunctioning pedals, and abandoned experiments that Ackermann describes as “beautiful mistakes” caught before they could be polished or finished.
