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Emerging from the Eternal City, BEDSORE blends progressive rock heritage with modern extreme metal experimentation, crafting a unique blend of Progressive Death Magick!

Their latest release, Dreaming the Strife for Love (2024), marks a bold step in their sonic evolution, drawing inspiration from the mysterious Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. The concept explores Love as a battlefield, where desire and devotion are tested through trials and spiritual awakenings. The band weaves Poliphilo's dreamscape with their own, merging visions of pagan temples, mystical gardens, and arcane symbols with a musical landscape as dynamic and complex as his journey. The album immerses listeners in a surreal narrative where reality bends, and the pursuit of Love becomes a clash between the human soul and the cosmic forces that surround it.

Released via 20 Buck Spin, Bedsore’s second full-length evokes the sensation of uncovering a lost gem of obscure 1970s progressive rock, rediscovered in modern times.

As a sonic odyssey, Dreaming the Strife for Love echoes the complex narrative and thematic richness of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. The transitions from wounding riffs and sharpened screams to delicate, soaring melodies and intricate instrumentation are designed to immerse the listener in the narration while challenging them to navigate its twists and turns. The winding structures of the tracks, their dynamic tempo changes, and aery acoustic interludes mirror the protagonist’s dream sequences, constantly shifting between tension and release, chaos and harmony, reflecting the ever- changing landscapes of Poliphilo’s journey. Each song represents a chapter in his travels: some are massive, swirling epics of sound; others are introspective, capturing moments of reflection. Like Poliphilo's fight for Love, the music challenges the listener.

With their second full-length album, Bedsore continues to push artistic boundaries, solidifying their reputation for majestic sonic investigation and cementing their status as pioneers in the metal world.

Dreaming the Strife for Love is an exploration of both ancient themes and modern extremities. It is a bridge between the mysticism of Renaissance philosophy, the progressive musical ambition of the '70s, and the relentless force of extreme metal. This is a voyage into the labyrinth of the heart, where the pursuit of Love demands more than just passion: it calls for transformation, sacrifice, and transcendence. This album is a tribute to the ancient world of symbols and the progressive spirit of music. Get ready to enter the dream, fight for Love, and get lost...

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"Bedsore’s 2020 debut album ‘Hypnagogic Hallucinations’ announced a Death Metal band that would not be content as merely another name in the meatgrinder of OSDM. A zealous determination to take their sound and influences into new territory was immediately recognizable in the colorful psychedelia, oddly-formed riffs and keyboard flourishes the band integrated with their mysterious darkness.

With the second album ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, the Roman band have jumped headfirst into the progressive warmth and obscure atmospheres of the 1970s. Where once you might call Bedsore a Death Metal band with progressive tendencies, it now feels more appropriate to characterize them as Progressive band with Death Metal tendencies. An aspirational and operatic aura envelops ‘Dreaming The Strife For Love’, from the longer compositions and spacious production to the extravagant and diverse instrumentation that includes 12 string guitar, copious use of synthesizers, mellotron and organs, fretless bass, percussion and horns; the dynamic range of the album embraces the most crucial elements of prog rock’s lofty imagination.

Though the Progressive side of the band has been given much more room to stretch out, the Death Metal foundations remain in the DNA. Vocally throughout the album the agonized screams of Jacopo Gianmaria Pepe endure, and the manic dark death and blackened metal riffs now segue and merge into the whole more adeptly than ever before. This results in an album that, rather than feeling like two separate albums in one, embraces a coherence for both forms, to create something distinctive, unconventional and wholly their own.

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." - 20 Buck Spin

“...an unfathomable nexus of demo-era Cynic on some of the wickedest comus drip-drip gummies, taking off into the '70s mind-expanding horror." – Decibel Magazine

“The keyboards take center stage, evoking even Keith Emerson or Jon Lord. It’s the overall atmosphere that stirs emotion: dark lights and shadows, classical-inspired flourishes, ominous atmospheres, esoteric psychedelia, cavernous prog/death darkness. A small masterpiece.” – Rumore

“It lies somewhere between the gothy, psychedelic arena black/death metal of Children Of The Night-era Tribulation and the death-prog journeys of the new Blood Incantation album, fleshed out by horns, keyboards, and more.” – BrooklynVegan

"Even on lousy speakers, Dreaming the Strife for Love is lush. It sounds like sitting in the control room of an expensive studio while a shapeshifting group of virtuosic, driven musicians push themselves to the very edge of their collective imagination. The thrill of Dreaming is in discovering, along with Bedsore, what lies beyond that border: And what prevails is the grand sweep of sensation, the otherworldly feeling that Bedsore have become so adept at supplying. Perhaps, like Poliphilo, their Polia has been lost, but they’ve learned to render her in vivid color." – Bandcamp

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"Enchanting" – Rockerilla