DREAMING
DEAD: California Death Metallers
To Unleash New
Full-Length
Artwork And Track Listing
Revealed
California death metal trio DREAMING
DEAD are readying to unleash their long-awaited new full-length
entitled Midnightmares. The follow-up to their 2009 Within One
opus, was recorded from June through September of this year. All guitars
and bass were tracked at the band's own studio in downtown Los Angeles while the
drums and vocals were tracked at Architeuthis Sound, (where
Midnightmares was also mixed). The final product is nothing short of
immense. Midnightmares offers up nine tracks of crushingly elaborate death
metal anthems as led by band leader, vocalist and guitar priestess,
Elizabeth Schall.
DREAMING DEAD have
continued their ascent to the mightiest of metal's ranks with their sophomore
release, Midnightmares. Retaining many of the extreme metal
elements of Within One, Midnightmares showcases a more refined
DREAMING DEAD, playing with greater precision and offering an
even deeper and more provocative musical experience.
As an added bonus, Midnightmares
features cover art by renown metal artists Travis Smith, known for his striking
work on records from Death, Sadus, Katatonia, Opeth, King
Diamond and so many others. Check it out HERE.
Commented Schall and Mike Caffell (drums,
vocals), of the release: "With Midnightmares, we wanted to record an
album based around the concepts of night and, obviously, nightmares. We shaped our lyrics as such, and wrote
music to capture both the violent, chaotic nature of dreams and the quiet
tranquility of the night. We also crafted the album to flow as a whole,
symbolizing the progression of an evening into night, and then into dawn; as if
the songs couldn't exist without one another. And, yes, we’re still bringing the speed
and brutality."
Midnightmares Track Listing:
1. Wake
2. Corpse Mountain
3. Overlord
4. Exile
5. In Memoriam
6. Lapse
7. Into The Depths
8. Midnightmares
9. Departure
Members Schall, Caffell and
bassist Juan Ramirez have honed their characteristic aural assault of black
metal, death metal, and thrash on a nationwide basis for the last four years,
sharing the stage with the likes of Morbid Angel, Nile, Immolation, Krisiun,
Monstrosity, Master, and Dying Fetus.
This Midnightmares-era sees
DREAMING DEAD sowing the seeds of such time spent on the road,
and those picking up the new album or catching the band live will no doubt be
struck at how much further DREAMING DEAD have taken their
groundbreaking metal stylings.
Midnightmares will be released on October 31,
2011 as a digital download
via the band's official WEB SITE. Stay tuned
for further details. In the meantime, check out the demo version
of the title track at THIS
LOCATION.
In related news, Schall recently
demoed Roland's new CUBE-80XL amp. If you missed it the first time,
check out the video HERE.
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