Wrapped in an abstract, distress-filled fantasy the album presents our impressions about our world, our society, ourselves - the reason we are here and ultimately the ending we are headed. The album consists of eight movements:
1. Ethereal Eternity: the realm of true emptiness, a world absent of life, dreams, fear and pain. 2. Black Spiral: stranded between two worlds trying to escape from the Spiral that hauls your soul into total annihilation. 3. Memento Mori: a metaphor for the recurring things in life you always think you can withstand - but in the end it breaks you every time. 4. The Last Drop Falls: the last attempt to emerge from the inevitable, ending in complete surrender. 5. Presentiment: images reminiscent of the future overrun your consciousness. Only a fracture of reality echoes in you leaving you paralyzed by fear - all you can do is breath in and out. 6. Presentiment (Part II): even with all the beauty and innocence of the unknown the uncertainty of it makes you tremble with fear. 7. False Sense of Confidence: the realization that the ignorance-based extreme self-confidence will eventually devour your whole existence. 8. It's Ubiquitous: the dissolution of this encompassing premonition, that states that there is still some hope left for us. The darkness surrounding us all dissolves into the light - since darkness is just the lack of light.
Lyrics can be found next to the songs on our Bandcamp page.
Cover art
THE LABYRINTH is a creation by Budapest-based artist, Norbert Fekete. Since this is a sort of conceptual recording about human fears, fate and suggest a positive outcome we decided to build the cover around such ideas. The maze totally fits this mindset as it demonstrates hopelessness (by seemingly endless labyrinth, vast walls) and the randomness of our fate (storm on the left, brighter sky on the right) quite well.
Bio
After the unexpected success of the Deadborn Dreams demo the band had troubles finding stable, lasting members. While the search has taken up several years, founder and band leader Dömötör Gyimesi worked on his ideas which eventually became the foundation for the Presentiment LP. In September 2012 he met János Mayer which has not only shifted the songs towards a more progressive approach but became the turning point in the band's history. In September 2013 the band started recording the demos with the beautiful soprano of Mária Molnár. After a lot of hard work and with the help of Gergő Drahota (VolumeFeeder) and Jenő Godó the band finally went into the studio to record the Presentiment LP, a concept album consisting of eight progressive dark metal movements.
Lineup for the album:
Dömötör Gyimesi (guitars, vocals)
János Mayer (keyboards)
Mária Molnár (vocals)
Jenő Miklós Godó (drums)
Gergő Drahota (bass)
Guest appearances:
Péter Csontos (The Void) - cello on 'Presentiment Part II'
Thomas Williams - narration on 'Presentiment' and 'The Last Drop Falls'
progmetalzone.com: "This is gonna knock you out! Amazing debut by this dark and at times foreboding band. Very much influenced by bands like Tool and Katatonia but with a strong dark symphonic metal aspect. Great use of female and male (mostly) death vocals too. Dramatic gothic-esque keyboards add tremendous depth to the sound. Seriously, Dreamgrave is one of the best debuts we've heard in a long time and easily one of the best albums of the year."
metalunderground.com: "This latest release sees the group wrapping progressive and post-rock elements around a core of dark metal with a beauty-and-the-beast presentation of harsh growls and female clean singing. From technical noodling to psychedelic keyboards and more, the full-length has more than a few surprises up its sleeve, and is well worth hearing for fans of progressive metal that loves to play with the boundaries between genres."
angrymetalguy.com: "Great arrangements. Particularly the interplay between the growls and the cleans are extremely good. So keep your eye peeled for @DreamgraveBand."
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