With the new second album ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, Italy’s Bedsore have jumped headfirst into the progressive warmth and obscure atmospheres of the 1970s. Inspired by the mysterious renaissance-era book ‘Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’, the album musically weaves the concepts of love as a battlefield, where desire and devotion are tested through trials and spiritual awakenings, with visions of pagan temples, mystical gardens, and arcane symbols.
Lush, symphonic, ambitious and romantic in scope, Bedsore’s ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’ is 2024’s most surprising fusion of 70s Progressive and Dark Death Metal, old and new production elements, the passionate and the horrific. Like so many of their Italian brethren from Goblin and Devil Doll, to Death SS and Black Hole, Bedsore both embrace tradition and blow it up simultaneously.
- Artwork by Denis Forkas Kostromitin (Wolves in The Throne Room, Black Curse)
- FFO: Opeth, Hallas, Yes, Goblin, Devil Doll, Genesis, Popol Vuh, Death SS, Paul Chain, Oranssi Pazuzu, Blood Incantation
Side A:
1. Minerva's Obelisque / 2. Scars of Light / 3. A Colossus, an Elephant, a Winged Horse; the Dragon Rendezvous
Side B:
4. Realm of Eleuterillide / 5. Fanfare for a Heartfelt Love / 6. Fountain of Venus
