Somewhere in the darkest depths of Pittsburgh, Dream Death have risen from their self-imposed grave to announce the details of their upcoming album due via Rise Above Records on March 4, 2016.
After making their full-length debut in 1987 with the groundbreaking doom/death/thrash masterstroke Journey Into Mystery—an album that somehow bridged the groaning gaps between Celtic Frost, Slayer and Saint Vitus while going on to influence many a notable death metal and death/doom faction—the vastly underappreciated band pulled their own plug in '89 and formed the more traditional doom outfit Penance.
The latter's 1992 album The Road Less Travelled was one of the earliest Rise Above releases, while Dream Death began what would prove to be a 22-year hibernation. In 2011, vocalist/guitarist Brian Lawrence, drummer Mike Smail (formerly of both Pentagram and Cathedral), bassist Richard Freund and guitarist Terry Weston regrouped and eventually stormed the studio for Dream Death's 2013 comeback album, Somnium Excessum.
The band's third and latest, Dissemination, marks the return of The Road Less Travelled lineup to Rise Above, this time in their resurgent Dream Death incarnation. Forged in the dank recesses of Lawrence's basement, Dissemination is the apogee of a creative process that recaptured and reinforced the singular spirit of Dream Death's late '80s triumphs.
Speaking of one of the albums main themes - mortality - Brian Lawrence comments: "The theme of death can be very clichéd in this genre but I've attempted to take a mature, personal view on this subject. In some ways I feel that I'm always running from my own mortality. On this album I've looked my enemy in the eyes and met him head-on."
Head-on just happens to be the best way to experience Dissemination.
"Dissemination" Track Listing:
1. Dissemination
2. Expendable Blood Flow
3. Crawling
4. The Cold Hard Light
5. All In Vain
6. Dominion
7. The Other Side
8. Nothing Ever Will
9. Neutral Ground
10. In Perpetuum
Dissemination will be released via Rise Above Records on March 4, 2016
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