WEAKLING DEAD AS DREAMS

"USBM" RECORDED IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1998... RELEASED IN 2000 ON tUMULUt RECORDS...

THIS DOUBLE ALBUM MAGNUM OPUS OF BLACKENED PAIN AND MISERY, WAS CONSIDERED FOR MANY YEARS BY THE EUROPEAN BLACK METAL ELITE TO BE THE ONLY TRUE BLACK ALBUM TO BE RELEASED IN AMERICA (THIS HAS SINCE CHANGED WITH THE EMERGENCE OF XASTHUR AND LEVIATHAN) AND FOR GOOD REASON. VOCALLY, JOHN GOSSARD SOUNDS LIKE A WOUNDED ANIMAL, CRYING OUT IN PAIN AS IF IMPAILED OR TRAPPED IN THE WILDERNESS. THESE ARE NOT CRIES FOR HELP BUT OF AGONY AND SUFFERING. AS IF DEATH WERE IMMINENT AND WELCOMED.
THE GUITAR WORK OF GOSSARD AND JOSH SMITH IS UNPARALLELED IN IT'S VIOLENCE AND DISSONANCE. COMBINED WITH THE RHYTHM SECTION'S (SARAH WEINER-BASS; SAM FOSTER-DRUMS) UNCOMFORTABLE CHURNING AND CASEY WARDS DRUG-LIKE HAZE OF WAHSHY SYNTHS TO LEAVE THE LISTENER TWISTED, MANGLED AN STUNNED...
A MODERN WORK OF ART...

1. "Cut Their Grain and Place Fire Therein" - 10:28
2. "Dead as Dreams" - 20:39
3. "This Entire Fucking Battlefield" - 14:47
4. "No One Can Be Called as a Man While He'll Die" - 13:09
5. "Disasters in the Sun" - 17:05

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