Dimensional Bleed
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Opening themselves up to new concepts and sounds, but retaining their trademark ability to captivate and obliterate in equal measure, listening to Holy Fawn’s Dimensional Bleed inspires a deep, unfading admiration for a truly genre-defying band.
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Dimensional Bleed is not only a great addition to the metal-gaze pantheon, but a mind-altering voyage through the dichotomy between life and death.
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Dimensional Bleed is an encapsulating musical journey in a cosmos of tragedy, melancholy, pain and euphoria – one that will reward you with every subsequent listen.
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Dimensional Bleed is more than just a collection of opulent post-metal songs; it’s an enchanting yet challenging journey for the heart, soul, and mind.
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The Arizona band refines their blend of shoegaze and metal on their stellar sophomore record.
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‘Dimensional Bleed’ is a revelatory record for the branching Phoenix outfit’s legacy. It carries a deeply insidious atmosphere, never revealing what is coming round the corner before exploding into either a flurry of motion or into a whispering, ephemeral moment.
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Where Holy Fawn’s debut album marked them as a visionary band with potential, the follow-up is a giant leap forward for the band in terms of aspiration and execution — one that soars to the heights of shoegaze lushness, black metal’s sense of incessant humanism and post-rock’s stark beauty.
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Shoegaze’s relationship
with metal has rarely felt more seamless.
with metal has rarely felt more seamless.
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Dimensional Bleed may not be the monumental statement Death Spells embodied, but it is certainly capable of engulfing anyone willing to allocate it some dedicated time.
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While it pales in comparison to Death Spells, Dimensional Bleed reveals the louder beating heart with an emphasis on melody interwoven throughout its bone-rattling density.
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With a slightly subtler approach, the post-metal band relies on familiar tricks, gesturing at widescreen emotions in an endless sea of sine wave swells.
Hexsewn is a dreamy intro that doesn’t give too much away but it does set you up adequately for what is to be more of an experience in soundscapes and textures than singular ‘songs’. Strap yourselves in for more of an ethereal movie score or soundtrack styled in Post-Rock like crescendo based arrangements with more experimental ASMR textures than bone crushing dynamics.
Although very chill and at high-risk of being a little ‘sleepy’ I’d imagine best served ... read more
What if Death Spells was Alive Spells? Maybe it would sound like this.
Much more refined than the previous album, super excited to see where this band goes from here.
Keep it up!
I’ll always have a special place in my heart for Holy Fawn because they were my introduction to blackgaze (and metal shoegaze in general) with ‘The Black Moon’ EP in 2020.
Now ‘Dimensional Bleed’ may lean more toward metalcore than black metal, but the idea of the group taking a new trajectory with their sound is exciting. What’s not exciting is this album. With the exception of a few tracks here (namely the title track), most of Holy Fawn’s newest ... read more
Like I said with “God’s Country”, this and it are the only two metal-offshoot records that I will listen to whilst actually significantly enjoying what I’m listening to. This album is an underrated and under-appreciated masterpiece that I am glad I stumbled upon almost a year ago. I’m so glad something that is this coherently blended in terms of metal and ambience exists in this world. It’s such a beautifully articulate form of art that needs to be ... read more
A very atmospheric emotional journey, consistently good all across, some moments here are truly special.
Best tracks: Empty Vials, True Loss, Death Is a Relief.
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Track List
| 1 | Hexsewn 2:49 | 81 |
| 2 | Death Is a Relief 5:53 | 91 |
| 3 | Lift Your Head 5:03 | 90 |
| 4 | Empty Vials 7:02 | 84 |
| 5 | Amaranthine 3:42 | 86 |
| 6 | Dimensional Bleed 2:39 | 84 |
| 7 | Sightless 7:03 | 90 |
| 8 | Void of Light 4:44 | 92 |
| 9 | True Loss 6:55 | 92 |
| 10 | Blood Memory 3:25 | 87 |
Total Length: 49 minutes
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Added on: July 12, 2022