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Release Date: 2022-01-15Label: The Cosmic Peddler
Limited to 50 cassettes worldwide.Drum tracking and guitar re-amping conducted at Innovation Studios, Steubenville, Ohio, by Mike Ofca
Guitars, Bass and Vocals recorded in The Dungeon by Matt Tluchowski
Mixed by Mike Ofca at Innovation Studios, Steubenville, Ohio
Mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios, Örebro, Sweden
All music written by Doctor Smoke
All lyrics by Matt Tluchowski
Except "Waking Dreams" and "This Hallowed Ground", lyrics by Matt & Nathan Tluchowski
And "The Rope", lyrics by Matt Tluchowski & Jeff Young
Additional vocals on "What Lies Beyond" by Macey Negri, additional vocals on "Waking Dreams" by Cody Cooke
Fueled by classic heavy metal and dark heavy rock, Doctor Smoke return in 2021 with Dreamers and the Dead. It’s been seven years since their 2014 debut, The Witching Hour, which was enough to send the band touring the East Coast and joining forces with Totem Cat Records for a 2015 release.
Rest assured, the energy they bring forth on Dreamers and the Dead justifies the loyalty their fanbase has shown them over time. Building on the first album’s accomplishments even as they chase speedy sonic demons down an it’s-not-about-genre highway, the new record boasts a newfound clarity of purpose and progressive depth of sound as the four-piece charge through 10 tracks of unflinchingly infectious songcraft. It’s not modern metal, but it’s definitely what you wish modern metal sounded like.