Bedsore

Bedsore

Dreaming The Strife For Love

20 Buck Spin

With the new second album Dreaming The Strife For Love, Italy’s Bedsore have jumped headfirst into the progressive warmth and obscure atmospheres of the 1970s. Inspired by the mysterious renaissance-era book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the album musically weaves the concepts of love as a battlefield, where desire and devotion are tested through trials and spiritual awakenings, with visions of pagan temples, mystical gardens, and arcane symbols. An aspirational and operatic aura envelops Dreaming The Strife For Love, from the longer compositions and spacious production to the extravagant and diverse instrumentation that includes 12-string guitar, copious use of synthesizers, mellotron and organs, fretless bass, percussion and horns; the dynamic range of the album embracing the most crucial elements of prog rock’s lofty imagination. Though the progressive side of Bedsore has been given much more room to stretch out, the death metal foundations remain present in the DNA. Vocally throughout the album the agonized screams of Jacopo Gianmaria Pepe endure, and the manic dark death and blackened metal riffs now segue and merge into the whole more adeptly than ever before. This results in an album that, rather than feeling like two separate albums in one, embraces a coherence for both forms, to create a surreal, reality-bending immersion wholly their own. Lush, symphonic, ambitious and romantic in scope, Bedsore’s Dreaming The Strife For Love is 2024’s most surprising fusion of 70s progressive and dark death metal, old and new production elements, the passionate and the horrific. Like so many of their...

Bedsore

(Colored) Hypnagogic Hallucinations

20 Buck Spin

***ON LIMITED ROYAL BLUE / BLACK BUTTERFLY W/ RED(ISH) AND SILVER SPLATTER VINYL!!! Warping minds and matter with their two track 2018 demo, Bedsore came to the attention of 20 Buck Spin, who, together in a twisting conspiracy, now issue the full length album Hypnagogic Hallucinations. A fitting title for the dark, lucid dreamscapes and obscure fantasia Bedsore deliver on their debut. Like an Argento film, the Roman band paint the canvas of death metal in vivid, bright washes of ornamented color and stabs of inventive horror that belies the corporeal grotesquery of the band’s name. Probing into the brain through psychedelic digression and winding hypnotic prog, a protean world of weird organic contours and mysterious meaning takes shape. A debut album of considerable imagination and subconscious peculiarity, Hypnagogic Hallucinations is an uninhibited first step for a band emboldened to travel to the farthest reaches of the possible within the celestial spheres of death metal.

Bedsore

Hypnagogic Hallucinations

20 Buck Spin

***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Warping minds and matter with their two track 2018 demo, Bedsore came to the attention of 20 Buck Spin, who, together in a twisting conspiracy, now issue the full length album Hypnagogic Hallucinations. A fitting title for the dark, lucid dreamscapes and obscure fantasia Bedsore deliver on their debut. Like an Argento film, the Roman band paint the canvas of death metal in vivid, bright washes of ornamented color and stabs of inventive horror that belies the corporeal grotesquery of the band’s name. Probing into the brain through psychedelic digression and winding hypnotic prog, a protean world of weird organic contours and mysterious meaning takes shape. A debut album of considerable imagination and subconscious peculiarity, Hypnagogic Hallucinations is an uninhibited first step for a band emboldened to travel to the farthest reaches of the possible within the celestial spheres of death metal.