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Dreams Of Dysphoria

Vacuous

Dreams Of Dysphoria

Dark Descent
CD $13.00

03/17/2023 795154137107 

DDR 284 CD 


MP3 $5.99

03/17/2023 795154137107 

DDR 284 CD 


FLAC $6.99

03/17/2023 795154137107 

DDR 284 CD 


London’s Vacuous finally present their debut album to follow the magnificent 2020 EP Katabasis. Greeting the listener along with the equally gloomy cover-art is an array of spectral and atmospheric death metal that is haunting beyond the nightmarish depths of the human mind. Perhaps owing to their fixation on the human psyche, or the equally inescapable reality their music conjures with contorting riffs, rock-solid drumming and bellowed vocals, chasms of atmosphere are opened to pour one’s own psyche into. One of the most unique things about Vacuous is their ability to play such bludgeoning, heavy music while retaining a very anguished emotional side, lending massively to the cataclysmic ambience of Dreams Of Dysphoria. The outcome of this is music is sonically punishing. From eerily dragging moments of graven doom through to the churning malice of sickeningly twisted fury, there is nothing but charnel brilliance on display here in a truly diverse platter of hostilities. While one could wrongfully assume that there is only simplicity to be found in this style of music, Vacuous have an utterly unique, warped way of writing their songs that is like no other. From the gloomier moments to the gut-wrenching hooks, there is always something slightly off-kilter here that is disquieting and unfamiliar. This feverish and unwelcoming side of the music is hard to shake, which gives the album a genuinely disturbing factor while the absolutely ferocious death metal core is never lost, nor anything short of thrust upon oneself. It would be an easy trap to pin them into the “old school” micro-genre, but this would be doing a disservice as although the real death metal spirit of old is here, this band is simply not derivative enough of any specific sound to be pigeon-holed so easily. Listen and discover this nightmarish tome, but be warned…Dreams Of Dysphoria is a truly prophetic title, as this record might cause psychiatric harm, claustrophobia, sleep-paralysis and all manner of bodily harm.

Tracklist

  1. #1 Devotion

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  2. #2 Body of Punishment

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  3. #3 Matriarchal Blood

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  4. #4 Paranoia Rites

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  5. #5 Stigmata Scourge

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  6. #6 Lucid (Interlude)

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  7. #7 Dreams of Dysphoria

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