2024 has been quite an eventful year for prog, be it with the releases of incredible album’s such as Ihsahn’s self-titled, Caligula’s Horse’s Charcoal Grace, Job For a Cowboy’s Moon Healer, or even on stage, with Mike Portnoy’s long-awaited return to Dream Theater. Lurking in the depths of the Italian underground, Roman kaleidoscopic death metal outfit Bedsore has been cooking up the sequel to the incredible Hypnagogic Hallucinations (2020) for a while now, resulting in the brilliant Dreaming the Strife for Love, which will be released through 20 Buck Spin later this month (and which is reviewed here).
Seamlessly blending the smoothness and experimentation of 70’s prog rock with the harshness and brutality of old-school death metal, the four-piece cement themselves as a force to be reckoned with within the metal world, with an album which is as beautiful as it is ambitious and complex. I had the chance recently to sit on a call with Stefano Allgeretti and Giulio Rimoli, guitarist/keyboardist and bassist respectively (pictured to the left and right on the header image), and they dissected the new album, also taking me through a journey of their career.
As the guys said in our interview, Dreaming is not an easy listen, it is incredibly layered and complex, but this here interview and my review should be solid enough companion pieces to get you guys as hyped as I am for this release which might just be one of the albums of the year.
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Header image by Francesco Maria Pepe
