A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS - RARE AND DEADLY - DEDSTRANGE

Fans around the world know Oliver Ackermann always brings surprises. For nearly two decades, the singer and guitarist of New York City’s A Place To Bury Strangers has fused post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, and avant-garde experimentation into music that feels volatile and alive. As the founder of Death By Audio, he’s extended that same spirit through his signal-scrambling effects, empowering artists everywhere to push sound past its limits. Onstage, A Place To Bury Strangers delivers a shamanistic experience—immersive, feral, and electrifying—where real-time experiments and sudden breakthroughs collide.

While many of his peers have slowed down, Ackermann’s momentum continues to build. In 2021 he launched Dedstrange, a label devoted to advancing boundary-breaking artists worldwide, and refreshed the band’s lineup with bassist John Fedowitz and drummer Sandra Fedowitz. The result is a group that sounds more immediate, daring, and melodic than ever.

Rare and Deadly, out April 3, 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.

Each format tells a different story. The CD, cassette, vinyl, and digital editions all feature unique tracklists, an almost unheard-of release strategy that give 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. Out April 3, 2026 — only on Dedstrange.