Dreams Of Consciousness

Metal blog and podcast. Blastbeats with pop culture riffing. www.dreamsofconsciousness.com

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MoE is a Norwegian noise/improvisational/experimental rock ensemble, featuring alumni from the the prestigious Kristiansand Music Conservatory and the Norwegian Academy of Music. They recently performed with Japanese drummer Ikuro Takahashi and Swedish sax player Signe Emmeluth at their own performance space/studio in Oslo, the Børsen Kulturhus. Their first live album, Live at Børsen Kulturhus, will be self-released on August 15th.

[photo: Greg Pope]

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You can listen to my 2018 interview with MoE here.

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Dragsholm are a Drac-obsessed USBM band from New Jersey who follow the template laid down by Sweden's second wave masters. Their first full-length album From The Bloodlines Of Bram will be released on July 3rd by Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.

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Revocation, Defeated Sanity, Fuming Mouth, and Weeping will be touring North America through September and October. Tickets and info can be found here.

You can hear my 2025 interview with Defeated Sanity bassist Jacob Schmidt here.

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RIPPLEFEST TEXAS 2026 will be held from September 17th-20th in Austin, TX, headlined by YOB, Khemmis, Greenleaf, and Dopethrone. Tickets and info can be found here.

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Those Who Walk Away is the name Canadian composer Matthew Patton employs for his ambient/experimental "post-classical" project. The sophomore album Afterlife Requiem is out now through Constellation Records.

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The London edition of Heavy Psych Sounds Fest will be happening on November 13th and 14th, with appearances by Black Rainbows, Acid Mammoth, The Cosmic Dead, Psychlona, Firebreather, and Mr.Bison, with more TBA. Tickets and info can be found here.

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Gout are a SLC trio who love weed and sludge in equal measures. Their debut EP Marijuana for Non-Medical Purposes is out now as a "name your price" download.

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Phases of Death [Weekly Mixtape 221]

Exhumed | Undertakers | Brilliant Behemoth | Endseeker | Chronic Hate | Goetia | Scordatura | Pvrgatorii | Nightmare Slaughter | D.E.R. | Hallucination Realized | Cripple Bastards | Haggus | Defiled | A Cat In The Brain | Nights Of Malice | Apogean | Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship | Conflux Collective | Thaetas

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Music On This Mixtape:

Exhumed: "Dead To The World" taken from the Exhumed / Iron Reagan Split

Undertakers: "United Front" taken from the album "Global Dominion"

Brilliant Behemoth: "Dismantled into Biomass" taken from the Brilliant Behemoth/Toughguy Split

Endseeker: "Enemies Of Peace" taken from the EP "Coffin Born"

Chronic Hate: "Misanthropic (Dismember cover)" taken from the album "Reflection on Ruin"

Goetia: "Mortuary Cult" taken from the album "Mortuary Cult"

Scordatura: "Led Into Oblivion" taken from the album "Led Into Oblivion"

Pvrgatorii: "A Broken Seal For Final Capitalism Collapse" taken from the EP "Profane Rites For Cursed Times"

Nightmare Slaughter: "Alchemy Of Impostors" taken from the album "Worm Kabbalah"

D.E.R.: "Sussurros" taken from the album "Tempo Severo"

Hallucination Realized: "Labyrinth" taken from the album "Developing Reality"

Cripple Bastards: "L'era della dispersione" taken from the EP "La tua foto sul marmo"

Haggus: "Decease The Police" taken from the EP "The Mincecore Manifesto"

Defiled: "Obsession" taken from the album "Altered_State"

A Cat In The Brain: "Nightmare Concert" taken from the EP "A Cat In The Brain"

Nights Of Malice: "Ex-Mortis" taken from the album "Chaos Exordium"

Apogean: "Lie in Cinder" taken from the album "Waste Where Life Begins"

Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship: "Yomi" taken from the album "二次元コンプレックス (2D Complex)"

Conflux Collective: "Reincarnation" taken from the album "In The Wake of Saturn"

Thætas: "For the Hope Devoid" taken from the album "The Irredeemable Age"

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Death metal iconoclasts Defiled will be touring Japan through June. Tickets and info can be found here.

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Doedsvangr brings together black metal maniacs from Noway, Finland, and France for the common cause of blasphemy and second wave worship. Their third album Within The Flesh is out now through Soulseller Records.

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Feralia are a Stockholm-based Italian black metal band whose style is rooted in the second wave, but whose proggy synths distinguish them from other melodic/atmospheric black metal projects. Their third album Ultima Requies will be released on June 26th by ATMF.

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Slovenian prog/heavy psych group Mutism are in the unfortunate position of releasing an album where the stand-out performance is by a former member - in this case, former vocalist Sara Majcen, who left the band in 2023, and whose singing brings back pleasant memory's of The Gathering's Van Giersbergen era. Their debut album Bitter Blossom was self-released by the band, and is out now.

[photo by Filip Košnik]

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433: Desiccation

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 433 features an interview with James Bratt, Soell Bratt, and Patrick Hills of Desiccation.

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My thanks again to James, Soell, and Patrick for speaking with me, and to all of you for listening.

Music In This Episode:

"Depths Sown by Sorrows" "The Fall" taken from the album "Cold Dead Earth"

"Ashes Unto The Abyss" "Cursed In Cold Silence" taken from the album "Legatum Mortuorum" Desiccation on Instagram

Desiccation on Bandcamp Legatum Mortuorum on the Carbonized Records webshop

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If the only problem with Symphonies of Sickness is that there's only one of it, Japanese Carcass-worshippers Pharmacist are here to fix that. Their third full-length album Vertebrae After Vertebrae is out now.

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J. Zunz is the name under which Mexican artist Lorena Quintanilla creates her unique brand of dark pop, which crosses over into electronic, ambient, and experimental music. Her fourth album Obsidiana is out now through Rocket Recordings.

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