Dead As Dreams
Weakling · 2000
76 min · 5 tracks · progressive metal
Black metal’s shrieks and tremolo-picked guitars stretch into vast compositions that move between raging velocity and bleak expansiveness.
Top tracks — play these first
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Cut Their Grain and Place Fire Therein — The opener introduces Weakling’s way of stretching black metal intensity across a long form, with searing vocals and riffs that accumulate rather than resolve quickly.
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Dead as Dreams — At over 20 minutes, the title track gives the band room to build and dismantle momentum, making its changing textures as important as its eruptions.
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This Entire Fucking Battlefield — Its extended scale and hostile atmosphere show how the band can sustain tension without relying on the concise attack of conventional black metal songs.
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Desasters in the Sun — The closing piece extends the album’s sense of exhaustion and grandeur, giving its final movement room to unfold over 17 minutes.
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 Cut Their Grain and Place Fire Therein 10:30
- 2 Dead as Dreams 20:41
- 3 This Entire Fucking Battlefield 14:49
- 4 No One Can Be Called as a Man While He’ll Die 13:11
- 5 Desasters in the Sun 17:06
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