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A decade after the demos from 2008 and 2009, France's DREAMS OF THE DROWNED proudly presents its first album, set to be released for the spring equinox. Melancholic, dense & psychedelic black / grey metal meets anarcho post punk, inspired by bands such as VED BUENS ENDE, KILLING JOKE, EMPEROR, BLIND IDIOT GOD, or AMEBIX.

Painfully and patiently crafted solely by multi-instrumentalist Camille from SMOHALLA and STAGNANT WATERS throughout years of wandering [with the exception of a DODHEIMSGARD's "Midnattskogens Sorte Kjerne" cover sung by its original inceptor, the one and only Aldrahn from URARV, THORNS, etc], and produced by HVN Recordings (URARV, WHIP, NUISIBLE..), this album is a necromantic attempt to keep the fire of some long-time missing aesthetics burning - and therefore honour them.
A collection of songs inhabited by european witchcraft, atypical mental states, the feeling of loss, the forest, the will to reclaim long-gone connexions and power from within, and the urge to properly name and subsequently confront power-overs.

Here's a first extract : "Conciliabules", soon to be followed by another.

lyrics

"The cancels piling in my head
The wound barriers between us..
I saw the half visible moving into my body it's haunting presences
Fake it in my limbs and livers, springs and winters, autumns and summers alike..
Oh it's present, oh it's here,
But have no fear

Oh you know it's constructed, though it's always been there
Atypical energies
Friends stealing my focuses, foes breaking my bones
All locked me in a tree of thoughts with labyrinth roots
The unknown known, this unknown knows,
The unknown knows..

Not anymore today is the days, not anymore self loathing and angst
Real enemies are out in the suns : my shadows are havens
Plotting the fall of uprooting fevers
Conciliabules of repressed hopes, transcend fears to dismantle tyrants
Tears of the dreamers aimed at thrones of the drowners
Feeding the right wolves as worlds collapse

The need for self determination, the right to breathe
You're not drifting - this path is your sister
Those swords wait for your vision to flicker
As you walk it to a perception greater

You already know how to defend the scents
Suns rise again, countless mornings await
Mantras for benzodiazepines
Half visible presences expanding your mind's eye"

(Music : October 2010 ; Words : October 2015)

credits

from Dreams of the Drowned I, track released February 22, 2019
Camille : Drums, Bass, Guitars, Vocals, Synths
Recorded, mixed, mastered at HVN Recordings
Logo by Christophe Szpajdel
Art by Alberto Giacometti
Promo shots by Pauline Leclercq

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Dreams of the Drowned Dublin, Ireland

DREAMS OF THE DROWNED was created in 2007 by Camille (VOID, STAGNANT WATERS; DOEDSMAGHIRD). A french mixture of psychedelic metal and strange witchcraft.
Contact : drownedanthems@gmail.com

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