Artist: Dream Unending & Worm
Title: Starpath
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN189
Release Year: 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD 
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

In both 2021 and 2022, Dream Unending and Worm releases closed out the year at 20 Buck Spin. For 2023, to complete the year-end trifecta, the two doomed titans now appear together on one towering release of cosmic duality, ‘Starpath’.

With both bands dropping major works back to back in the previous two years, they became intrinsically linked in the imaginations of the fanbases. And while musically they almost couldn’t be farther apart, the foundational points when exhumed of the Earth, have plenty in common. And so once more, Dream Unending and Worm end the 20 Buck Spin release schedule for the year, this time in conspiracy with one another.

The latest tracks from Dream Unending, ‘So Many Chances’ and ‘If Not Now When’ further dissolve the goth/post-punk elements that existed within earlier output, continuing to build upon the spacious free-form drift of extended guitar passages, pensively heavy riffs and Justin DeTore’s thunderous roar. Phil Swanson, who appeared as guest clean vocalist on ‘Song of Salvation’, returns again here. These two extended pieces represent the most realized incarnation yet of where Derrick Vella and Justin DeTore are steering the ship.

Recommended if you like: Disembowelment, Thergothon, Katatonia, Mournful Congregation, Bell Witch, Paradise Lost, Ahab, Anathema

Track Listing:

1.Dream Unending - So Many Chances 
2.Dream Unending - If Not Now When 
3.Worm - Ravenblood 
4.Worm - Midwinter Tears 
5.Worm - Sea Of Sorrow