The vast subgenre of Skramz/Screamo was a world that I hardly dipped my toes into back in my formative years, but over time, went continuously deeper. Dreamwell is one of the bands that were just a little deeper below the surface, and also mixed in post-Hardcore and a dash of Atmospheric Black Metal.
For those unaware, there has been a resurgence in metal when it comes to unsettling, haunting noise and eerie, sonically paralyzing sound.
Kristin Hayter is perhaps better known by her erstwhile pseudonym Lingua Ignota, under which moniker she has released several albums that combine dark experimentalism with the influence of classical and folk music. Stating that it is “not healthy for [her] to relive [her] worst experiences over and over” through the music of her previous project, she has now recast herself as Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, under which name her new album SAVED! (Perpetual Flame Ministries) arrives.