(Two weeks ago Prophecy Productions released a new album-length song from the German horror metal poets The Vision Bleak, their first new music in 8 years, and below you’ll find DGR‘s attempt to make a review of it.)
The halls of NoCleanSinging are no stranger to groups with a large amount of time passing between releases. Upon awakening from a deep slumber, the halls of this site are many times the first thing that the slowly-awakening-back-to-consciousness groups see. We’ve premiered bands that’ve had decade-plus times of inactivity to their names while members ventured elsewhere, explored with other bands, or even enjoyed the more mundane side of things by maintaining a stable day job.
The resurrected’s first few hesitant steps can be flat-footed and precariously balanced but it has happened enough that it’s a familiar sound by the NoCleanSinging doorstep. That’s why we’re familiar with how a project like The Vision Bleak could’ve entered a near-eight-year hibernation following the release of a pretty goddamned good album in the form of 2016’s The Unknown and how after all this time the project could return to us with something equally as crazy sounding, a forty-one minute single song known as Weird Tales. Continue reading »