Between the Buried and Me, sometimes known as BTBAM, is a progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Tommy Giles Rogers Jr. (lead vocals, keyboards), Paul Waggoner (lead guitar, backing vocals), Dustie Waring (rhythm guitar, lead guitar), Dan Briggs (bass, keyboards), and Blake Richardson make up the band, which was formed in 2000.
Between the Buried and Me’s debut eponymous album was released in 2002 by Lifeforce Records, before moving to Victory Records for subsequent releases until signing with Metal Blade in 2011, where they released their first extended play, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, that year, and its full-length follow-up The Parallax II: Future Sequence the following year. Coma Ecliptic, their seventh studio album, was released in July 2015. Automata I, their eighth album, was published in March 2018, and Automata II, their ninth album, was released in July 2018. Colors II (the follow-up to Colors from 2007) was launched in August 2021.