{"id":12693,"date":"2015-12-02T06:56:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12693"},"modified":"2015-12-15T02:15:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T07:15:54","slug":"cd-nightmare-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12693","title":{"rendered":"CD: Nightmare (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nightmare2015_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12701 alignleft\" alt=\"Nightmare2015_s\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Nightmare2015_s.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Label<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mvdb2b.com\/s\/DanteTomaselliNightmare\/EE6448\" target=\"_blank\">MVD Audio \/ Elite Entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Released:<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> \u00a0January 27, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong> \u00a09 tracks \/ (49:00)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Composer:<\/strong> Dante Tomaselli<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><strong>Special Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0 n\/a<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For his third audio horror album, filmmaker Dante Tomaselli switches to a decidedly early eighties mode, at least with the fragments of recurring music and bass drones that evoke both slasher and thriller films with mechanical, man-slicing monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Crafted with the same careful attention towards fine nuances and offering a richer variety of sounds, <strong>Nightmare <\/strong>is arguably a more ambitious project, largely because its themed nightmares \u2013 tumbling into a deep hole, a mausoleum, a lake, and more \u2013 offer discrete shocks, cold chills, and shoulder taps at every corner. The swirling sound design fully immerses the listener into a kind of watery, open-eyed stasis, where one floats and observes, but is powerless to flee, let alone wake up.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a greater density of material here, brilliantly edited and mastered, with each nightmare flowing into the next for 49 mins. of eerie fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightmare<\/strong>\u00a0was preceded by the albums \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10027\"><strong>Scream in the Dark<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2014)\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12694\">The Doll<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(2014).<\/p>\n<p>Note: Interviews with Dante Tomaselli from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12226\">2014<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=991\">2007<\/a>\u00a0are also available.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2015 Mark R. 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