A Place To Bury Strangers Announce ‘Rare and Deadly’ Album + EU Tour

Rare and Deadly, out April 3rd via Dedstrange, cracks open a decade-long vault of raw nerve and sonic chaos from A Place To Bury Strangers. Spanning 2015–2025, the collection gathers demos, B-sides, abandoned experiments, and forgotten fragments pulled from Ackermann’s personal archive of late-night recordings, blown-out tapes, and half-finished sessions. These tracks capture the band at their most unfiltered—caught between breakthrough ideas and beautiful mistakes, with the edges left jagged on purpose.

Rare and Deadly will be released in four formats, where each format tells a different story. The CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital editions all feature unique tracklists, an almost unheard-of release strategy that gives a metaphorical middle finger to the industry norms. No single format contains the “complete” album; instead, each becomes a different window into the archive, revealing alternate paths, missing links, and parallel versions of the band’s inner life. The album shifts depending on how you hear it, mirroring the chaos of its creation.

Across Rare and Deadly, you can hear the evolution of Ackermann’s restless mind: riffs warped by malfunctioning pedals, songs born from gear pushed beyond its limits, and melodies swallowed by walls of feedback until only their ghosts remain. Some tracks hint at future releases; others are volatile dead ends. Together, they form a secret history—an unstable, essential document of sound in motion.

Less a compilation than a documentary, Rare and Deadly captures the moment before ideas solidify. It’s where A Place To Bury Strangers has always thrived: between control and collapse, melody and noise, beauty and distortion.

A Place to Bury Strangers have also announced the “Rare and Deadly European Tour 2026,” which will start in Germany in April.

A Place To Bury Strangers ‘Rare and Deadly’ album artwork

Tour Dates:

04/07 – MS Stubnitz – Hamburg, Germany
04/08 – UT Connewitz – Leipzig, Germany
04/09 – Cargo Gallery – Prague, Czech Republic
04/10 – Kabinet múz – Brno, Czech Republic
04/11 – Pink Whale Bar – Bratislava, Slovakia
04/12 – A38 – Budapest, Hungary
04/13 – Karmakoma – Belgrade, Serbia
04/14 – Mixtape 5 – Sofia, Bulgaria
04/15 – Control Club – Bucharest, Romania
04/17 – Eightball Club – Thessaloniki, Greece
04/18 – Gazarte – Athens, Greece
04/20 – Monk Club – Roma, Italy
04/21 – Ex Fila – Firenze, Italy
04/22 – TPO – Bologna, Italy
04/23 – Santeria – Milano, Italy
04/24 – Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland
04/25 – Out of The Crowd Festival – Luxembourg, Luxembourg
04/26 – Magasin 4 – Bruxelles, Belgium
04/27 – Gebaeude 9 – Köln, Germany
04/29 – De Helling – Utrecht, Netherlands
04/30 – Burgerweeshuis – Deventer, Netherlands
05/01 – Fuzz Club Festival – Eindhoven, Netherlands

A Place To Bury Strangers EU tour admat