Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Tracklist
01. Cut Their Grain And Place Fire Therein02. Dead As Dreams
03. This Entire Fucking Battlefield
04. No One Can Be Called As A Man While He'll Die
05. Disasters In The Sun
Staff pick by
Lucas
(2010)
Additional info
Re-released in 2003 as MC by N:C:U with different cover art, limited to 300 copies.
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9.0
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Weakling are one of the most important bands in the United States Black metal scene. Dead As Dreams, their post-mortem debut album, is both emotionally riveting and intensely raw. And although it is hard to get because of its limited release, with five songs clocking in over 75 minutes, it's worth every penny! Read more ›› |
Staff pick by
Lucas
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Lucas
Intense Black metal
Apr 17, 2010
Dead As Dreams is one of the best USBM albums around. Weakling offers the listener seventy-five minutes of raging Black metal with cutting-edge song writing and epic song structures. It's diverse, heart-wrenching and driven; don't miss out if you ever bump into this hard-to-find gem!
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Endorsed by: BitterCOld, Marcel Hubregtse, Zombie, M.D., jupitreas, White Winter Sun, Troy Killjoy, X-Ray Rod, Ag Fox
Endorsed by: BitterCOld, Marcel Hubregtse, Zombie, M.D., jupitreas, White Winter Sun, Troy Killjoy, X-Ray Rod, Ag Fox
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Has a vinyl version of this ever been released?
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Posts: 4774 Written by [user id=4365] on 05.11.2010 at 20:02 bloody expensive though
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God I don't listen to this album enough, easily one of the greatest BM albums ever written.
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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Absolutely awesome , Epic bleak intense black and foggy. Essential BM
---- In a sane world as it should be, and it wont be for a while, we'll do away with capital and pay for things with smiles. In a sane world as it should be, however slim the chances, we'll do away with capital and pay for things with dances.
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Fantastic album, about 15 minutes too long though. Dead As Dreams (song) is pretty much a masterpiece, the dual guitar lead is sooooo good.
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I don't even notice how long it is. It's that kind of good.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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I finally own a physical CD of it. But how can I tell which version it is? No years are printed on the sleeve...
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Posts: 18615 Written by Ag Fox on 29.10.2015 at 18:28 They only released it twice in CD-format so you can look if there are any codes to identify it. Compare them to the ones found here and here.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Posts: 4774 Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.10.2015 at 16:59 Thanks! didn't know such codes existed. Mines have IFPI LM26 on the CD, so it's the original version ^^y
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Posts: 18615 Written by Ag Fox on 15.11.2015 at 16:29 Mine doesn't so I guess it's just a repress.  A cd is a cd though so I'm ok with that.
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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I don't know if this was recommended before but still, there used to be a band called Dead As Dreams, they only managed to release an EP which contains just one song over 24 minutes. I think you'll enjoy it a lot if you love Weakling.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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The staggering number of cool musical ideas. The on-point musicianship. The utterly hopeless atmosphere. What a masterpiece this album is,
---- "Randy Rhoads, although being a wonderful guitar player, could not play Asteroids for shit." - Lemmy Kilmister
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Quite simply, one of the greatest BM releases of all time
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It's very long and drawn out so obviously there's alot to take in at once, but if you allow yourself the time and opportunity to take this one up then do so, it's a true atmospheric masterpiece, one that any fan of traditional black metal can't miss out on. The harsh high pitch squeeling vocals may not be to everyone's taste, but for me they have such a sinister sound, almost like genuine cries of agony and despair, as if the vocalist himself is going through some sort of dramatic physical, or emotional torture. The guitar tone sounds eerie, and fits the style perfectly, and the song structures and musicianship is phenomenal, but it can get too much, and a wee bit tedious over time.
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Glad I finally found this one, BM is one of my favorite subgenres but I'm less into the lo-fi old stuff. This is a marked exception, well said above, "utterly hopeless atmosphere"
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The vocalist sounds like he was hit in the nuts repeatedly just before he tracked his vocals.
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Hello, I'm an incredibly important album that isn't talked about enough, even amongst critics and connoisseurs of Black Metal. The fact that this album gets mostly ignored when discussing modern BM and USBM is really strange. Somehow it stayed in the underground this whole time, even with extreme metal reaching the mainstream through the react-type videos on youtube.
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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