Belgium’s Divni San don’t just play heavy music, they orchestrate emotional weather systems. With Dreamlike Tales, their latest full-length, they’ve forged a record that doesn’t merely riff hard but thinks hard. This isn’t just another metal album wrapped in cliché; it’s a brooding, cinematic voyage where thrash urgency collides with melancholic melody like storm fronts over a foggy forest.
Take the title track, “Dreamlike Tales”, a song that opens like a lullaby whispered through a distorted amp. Crushing riffs? Check. Soaring vocal lines that ache with intent? Double check. But what hits hardest is the atmosphere: a sense of narrative weight, like listening to a Grimm fairy tale narrated by someone who’s lived it. The lyric video, crafted with eerie precision by Volume Agency, leans into the song’s dream-logic with visuals that pulse and warp like memories half-remembered at 3 a.m.
And the album as a whole? It’s a journey. From the raw, almost primal charge of “The Power of Your Soul” to the creeping, Opeth-ian shadows of “When the Bells Ring the Knell”, Dreamlike Tales reveals a band unafraid of dynamics. You hear the precision of Megadeth in the riffing, the melodic instinct of late-era Metallica, but also something rarer: emotional sincerity without self-indulgence. These aren’t posturing anthems, they’re confessions wrapped in distortion.
What impresses most is how Divni San balance aggression with introspection. Too many bands mistake intensity for depth; here, the heaviness serves the mood. The production is crisp but not sterile, leaving room for breath, for silence, for the weight of a pause between chords. It’s modern, yes, but rooted in the golden era of heavy rock, think early ’90s, when metal wasn’t afraid to be both smart and visceral.
I’ve had this on repeat for days. Not because it’s “brutal” or “insane” (buzzwords that mean less every year), but because it sticks. It lingers. And in an age of algorithmic noise, that kind of staying power is rare.
So yeah, stream it. Watch the video. Let “Dreamlike Tales” pull you under. You might not come back the same.
Watch the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tRCeovx06o
Full album: orcd.co/dreamliketales
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(P.S. Their drummer deserves a raise. And maybe therapy.)
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