Released January 26, 1999 Artist Never Producer Neil Kernon | Length 66:05 Release date 26 January 1999 Label Century Media Records | |
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Recorded Village Productions, Tornillo, Texas Dreaming Neon Black
(1999) Dead Heart in a Dead World
(2000) Genres Thrash metal, Progressive metal, Power metal, Avant-garde metal Similar Never albums, Thrash metal albums | ||
Nevermore dreaming neon black full album 1999
Dreaming Neon Black is the third full-length album released by Seattle progressive metal band Nevermore, and was released through Century Media in 1999. Unlike its predecessor, The Politics of Ecstasy, this album is very emotional and contains many slower, ballad-type songs. It is also notable that Dreaming Neon Black is a concept album of sorts. According to Nevermore's lead singer, Warrel Dane, "it's a very simple story about a man who slowly goes insane after losing a woman that he was very close to. Progressive levels of insanity are expressed in the songs, he goes through phases of denial and self-blame, blaming God, then denouncing God. The ending is a little...tragic, a little depressing. Shakesperian. Everybody dies, it's all happy.", which may be based on an event in the life of Dane. Supposedly, his old girlfriend left him when she joined a religious cult and was never heard from again, and he began having nightmares of her crying out to him as she drowned. This has been confirmed by Warrel himself in an older interview. The spoken word samples from the tracks "Ophidian" and "Forever" are from the Clive Barker movie, Lord of Illusions.
Contents
Nevermore dreaming neon black with lyrics
Track listing
All lyrics written by Warrel Dane; all music composed by Nevermore.
Note: At the end of the song Forever, there's 6:36 minutes of silence. After the silence, a 10-second backwards section from the track Ophidian can be heard.
Credits
Songs
1Ophidian0:47
2Beyond Within5:12
3The Death Of Passion4:10