(written by Islander)

And now for something completely different….

The always interesting Mexican label Chaos Records describes the music of Hermit Dreams as “experimental death/doom metal.” All those words are relevant — but especially the “experimental” part, because it’s the nature of the experiments that makes the music so unexpected, so distinctive, and just as fascinating as the cover art of their debut album Desperate Anomies.

A lot of death/doom provides soundtracks to personal or physical catastrophe and their abysmal aftermaths, but the music you’re about to hear goes off the usual beaten paths and into glades that really will make people think of a hermit’s dreams, a hermit from ancient myth who lives on the border of realms where the rules of our world have no sovereignty. Continue reading »