Dreams of Gray - new melodic death metal out of Chicago, USA

Dreams of Gray

A Beginning

1 March 2024

The anatomy of Dreams of Gray (Chicago, U.S.) has been contextualized as "melodic thrash, death, and doom as well as traditional heavy metal," which is fine, but you could just as easily bang your head to the music and be good to go. The 2023 debut EP was a fine work of melodic death metal, but now this new song features a stronger balance between the death growling and melodic singing. This track shows quite a range: the somber melodies, the headbanging extreme metal moments, the various vocal elements. Actually, when you read it on paper, it seems like there might be too much going on, but when you hear it for yourself you will understand how smoothly the composition flows, and not like a forced mixture of incoherent elements. For example, you might be surprised that there are black metal guitar elements showing up or that there is a certain doom vibe in some parts, but those labels "doom" or "black metal" do not really explain the song at all nor the quality of the songwriting. More importantly, the sense of melody is something that the listener will detect without much difficulty! The new song, a precursor to an upcoming 2024 EP, is type of somber, melodic, but also headbanging melodic death metal. Better yet, given that the song is already out, check it out for yourself, and that's a much better way to understand Dreams of Gray's anatomy.

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