DREAM DEATH – Dissemination LP

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Third full-length (second since their recent reformation) from Dream Death, and oddly it actually features the exact lineup of Penance’s classic Road Less Travelled lineup. I thought their last album was absolutely storming, and one of the very few examples of an old band getting back together and coming out with something informed by the past but still looking forward and trying something new. This one….hmm, maybe a bit less so. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still good, with some absolutely cracking Frost-ian riffs and their trademark tempo changes, but comes across to me as a pretty straightforward, predictable album compared to the last one. I kinda found listening to this like checking out a new Autopsy album: it got a couple of listens and then got filed away, and when I next want to listen to Dream Death I’ll seek of Journey Into Mystery and that’ll be that. Red vinyl, lim 200.