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“A full-on sonic attack.”
— Consequence on “Acid Rain,” “Best Songs of the Week”
“It was beautiful…and I’m really taken aback by it… a lovely cut.”
— Anthony Fantano, The Needle Drop on “Where Are We Now,” “Best Track”
"[A Place To Bury Strangers [have] spent nearly two decades delivering punishing noise rock that blends elements of psychedelia, experimental and electronica all into one madhouse; it’s made their sound abrasive and challenging, yet ultimately rewarding."
— Austin Town Hall
"Fragments of material that weren’t necessarily supposed to see the light of day at the time they were recorded. However, that’s what makes each song its own unique journey into the unknown … spiritual and fragmented."
— New Noise Magazine
About The Album
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 Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions, 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.
Rare and Deadly is less a compilation and more a documentary—an aural snapshot of how sound takes shape before it hardens into something finished. You hear the room, the accidents, the restless experimentation, the immediacy of a moment being captured before it disappears. It’s a reminder that A Place To Bury Strangers has always thrived in this in-between space: the tension between control and collapse, melody and noise, beauty and distortion.
(((Click Below To Watch)))
"Losing Time" video
"Lost" video
"Time" video
"Nature Of Your Heart" video
"Do It All Again" video
“Song For Girl from Macedonia” video
“Where Are We Now” video
“Acid Rain” video
“Everyone’s The Same” video
Rare And Deadly Tracklists Per Format
(CD, LP, Casette, and Digital Versions)
A Place To Bury Strangers Tour Dates
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EU Tour - w/ Die Anstalt
24 Aug - Concorde 2 - Brighton, United Kingdom
25 Aug - Sidney & Matilda - Sheffield, United Kingdom
26 Aug - The White Hotel - Manchester, United Kingdom
27 Aug - Stereo - Glasgow, United Kingdom
28 Aug - The Deers Head - Belfast, United Kingdom
29 Aug - Strange Brew - Gaillimh, Ireland
30 Aug - The Grand Social - Dublin, Ireland
02 Sep - The Hare and Hounds - Birmingham, United Kingdom
03 Sep - The Adrian Flux Waterfront - Norwich, United Kingdom
04 Sep - Papillon - Southampton, United Kingdom
05 Sep - The Piper - Saint Leonards-on-sea, United Kingdom
07 Sep - The Dome - London, United Kingdom
08 Sep - Anarchy Brew Co - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
09 Sep - The Bullingdon - Oxford, United Kingdom
US Tour - W/ Adult.
05 Nov - Assembly - Kingston, NY
06 Nov - The Sinclair - Boston, MA
07 Nov - Space Ballroom - Hamden, CT
09 Nov - Elsewhere - Brooklyn, NY
10 Nov - Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
11 Nov - Black Cat - Washington, DC
12 Nov - Richmond Music Hall - Richmond, VA
13 Nov - Eulogy - Asheville, NC
14 Nov - The Blue Room - Nashville, TN
16 Nov - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
17 Nov - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
18 Nov - Ace of Cups - Columbus, OH
19 Nov - HI-FI - Indianapolis, IN
20 Nov - Metro Chicago - Chicago, IL
21 Nov - El Club - Detroit, MI
photo by Holger Nitschke
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