Dreaming Dead is a death metal band from Los Angeles that incorporates a multitude of styles into their music. They also have the distinction, whether they want this kind of attention or not, of being one of those few, good extreme metal bands with a female vocalist (Elizabeth Schall) — who is also an inventively killer guitarist.
We really enjoyed the band’s 2009 debut, Within One, and we’ve been looking forward to the release of their follow-on album, Midnightmares, which it appears the band has recorded as a three-piece, while continuing to hunt for a second guitarist (who Schall wants to be a woman). We haven’t seen any definitive release date, and the band may be holding that up in an effort to find a label who would distribute it.
However, yestrday, Dreaming Dead released an official video for a song called ”Overlord” from that forthcoming album. The video itself is fairly no frills — just the band playing in a dark club setting, with lights intermittently revealing the band members as they hammer out the song, and rapid cutting from one shot to the next.
And then there’s the song itself — it’s fucking great: a fascinating piece of modern death metal with driving rhythms, technical musicianship, catchy hooks, and an unexpected instrumental diversion near the end. And Schall is a magnetic presence even on video, with a blend of Nordic rasps and bestial growls to accompany her creative guitar leads. Check out the video after the jump. We’re pretty sure you’ll like it . . .
Dreaming Dead is currently on a West Coast tour with Exhausted Prayer. Here’s the schedule:
Oct 21, 2010 (7:00P)
The Red Hat Sports Bar
Concord, CaliforniaOct 22, 2010 (7:30P)
Monstros Pizza
Chico, CAOct 23, 2010 (7:30P)
Plan B
Portland, OROct 24, 2010 (7:00P)
The Cretin Hop
Spokane, WAOct 25, 2010 (7:30P)
The Galway Arms
Seattle, WAOct 26, 2010 (7:30P)
Le Voyeur
Olympia, WAOct 27, 2010 (7:00P)
The GUP
Eugene, OROct 28, 2010 (7:30P)
Burnt Ramen
Richmond, CAOct 29, 2010 (7:00P)
On The Y
Sacramento, CAOct 30, 2010 (8:00P)
3 Clubs
Hollywood, CA
This video is bad ass!
You should check out the Dutch band band Izegrim http://deathmetalbaboon.com/izegrim-point-of-no-return
sorry, not band band. just band
Oh, that’s good! Thanks for that tip. That’s an unusual switch — for the male vocalist to leave the band and be replaced on vocals by the female guitarist — but she’s good.
I think that the other vocalist was a woman too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxl12GRefis
Oops — I leaped to the wrong conclusion from the previous vocalist’s name (“Kristien”).
Yep Kristien is a girl’s name in Dutch.
If you look carefully you’ll see the current one isn’t the playing guitar anymore. It’s now a bass she’s wielding.
That said, about Dreaming Dead: awesome. Some pretty raw vocals for a chick. And she looks HAWT too
Hmmm. It appears when I watched that video I must have been looking at something other than the instrument Kristien was playing.
There blackened death thrash not death metal u can clearly hear the black metal influences from the riffs and the tremolo picking also the vocals especially on there first album
That’s a fair point. There’s definitely a black-metal influence to the music, part of which I was trying to allude to in referring to Liz’s Nordic rasps. Your genre classification is more precise.
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She’s Brutal Too! (Elizabeth Schall)