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The World After

Album Review: Dreams Of Gray – The World After [EP]

Black metal has, even since the days of BATHORY and BURZUM, been the enclave of the solitary, and there’s a better than likely chance that, in 2023, the solo practitioners of the art far outnumber more traditional bands. Not so, the realm of doom. Or, in the case of Illinois’ DREAMS OF GRAY, a death/doom hybrid. Austria’s SELENITE comes to mind, the funereal liturgy of Italy’s NOCTU, but the genre as a whole lends itself to collaboration, strangely; a camaraderie of the sorrowful, if you will. Misery does love company, after all. More active in ABOLISHER of the mid-‘90s to […]

DREAMS OF GRAY Release The World After EP

Chicago-based, one-man melodic death/doom band DREAMS OF GRAY has released its debut EP, The World After. Featuring three epic tracks, the EP seamlessly blends elements of melodic thrash, death, doom, and traditional heavy metal. Download The World After at Bandcamp The EP is also streaming on Spotify The World After Track List: Performance V Justice Life In Gray The World After DREAMS OF GRAY is Luis Rivera (Vocals/Guitars). The band was formed almost by accident, as Rivera was piecing together ideas while unable to actively perform and record music. When Rivera was ready to record in 2022, he enlisted the […]