A Place To Bury Strangers – new single/ video ‘Song for Girl from Macedonia’ out now

New York City’s A Place To Bury Strangers release ‘Song For Girl From Macedonia‘, the final single/video ahead of their new rarities album ‘Rare And Deadly’, out Friday via Dedstrange. Following last month’s ‘Where Are We Now’, ‘Song For Girl From Macedonia’ is dedicated to a fan who passed away.    Reflecting on the track, frontman Oliver Ackermann says, “We played a show in Macedonia and met this girl who deeply connected with the music. Her brother helped us load gear, pure kindness, no ego. She was killed by a drunk driver crossing the road. This song is for her. A small attempt at honoring someone who deserved more time.” The accompanying video was created by the band’s original projectionist, Spencer Bewley.

Rare and Deadly 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. Pre-order available now. 

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. 

PRE-ORDER ‘RARE AND DEADLY’ HERE 

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