Hailing from Porto, Portugal, Dreamweapon is a Psychedelic Voodoo Industrial Machine, the brain child of 10000 Russos former bass player André Couto.
Dreamweapon’s new album ARS MORIENDI will be released on October 06th, 2023, by a joint venture involving 3 renowned independent labels:
Little Cloud Records (US)
Infinite Spin Records (US) and Up In Her Room (UK)
The album artwork is a painting of the same name by Sonic Jesus’s founder Marco Baldassarri.|
Ars Moriendi is regarded as the end of an anachronic circle, initiated in 2016 with Rites of Lunacy (released 2021) and 2018 with SOL, now concluded.
Recorded between the end of the pandemic lockdown and the beginning of the Ukranian invasion, Ars Moriendi may be the darkest Dreamweapon production to this time.
Ars Moriendi, as referred in the late Middle Ages Latin texts, offers protocol and procedures to a good death. It is a messenger of hope, as you take control of the past, by acknowledging it and accept it, you take control of the future.
The hint is well present in the music, by combining the influences of the forefathers who inspired their name (Angus Maclise, Tony conrad, Spacemen 3) with the ones of the industrial masters such as Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten and The Young Gods, dreamweapon’s music is a minimalist, droney, head swirling psychedelia, with a dark, industrial scent.
After the end of lockdowns, Dreamweapon’s gigs schedule has been extensive, with a six date minitour in France and Belgium, plus a full one month tour in May 2022, including shows in the UK , Mag4 in Brussels and Psychedelic Umami Festival in CZ, and more German and Italian dates in late ’22 and early 2023.
Porto (PT)
Little Cloud (US) / Infinite Spin (US) / Up In Her Room (UK)
Industrial, Drone, Electronic
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PRESS QUOTES
“Danse Macabre swirls in a minimalist waltz, a psychedelic reverie of drone-like echoes that weaves a heady, hypnotic spell. It exhales a darker nuance, redolent with industrial undertones, painting a picture of intoxicating complexity.” Post-Punk.com (video premiere)
“… With Dreamweapon you are brought into the bleakest of worlds where all expression is distorted amongst a murky backdrop of noise and it’s really rather glorious.” Isolation Records
“…haunted psychedelia at its best.” It’s Psychedelic Baby Mag
“Dreamweapon lives up to its name on Rites Of Lunacy and presents a dark dream like consciousness that envelops the listener. The music is mind altering casting a trace and guiding the listener into the darkness.” The Psych Rock
“This is an album for those who love to explore sound and the mediums which create it. It’s not something that everyone will instantly love, but maybe that’s the point…” Backseat Mafia
LIVE Review : “Dreamweapon used guitars and electronica to produce music that built to be the sound of a huge, all-encompassing machine. Industrial and brutal at times, there were no soft edges, just the magnificent sound of industrial might. Given that, there was a bizarre intelligence to that machine, an underlying sentience; Powerful and absorbing.” Louder Than War
A GIANT LEAP 