Nevermore "Dreaming Neon Black"

Dreaming Neon Black is the third studio album released by American heavy metal band Nevermore, and was released through Century Media in 1999. Unlike its predecessor, The Politics of Ecstasy, Dreaming Neon Black contains many slower, emotional songs.

Dreaming Neon Black is a concept album; according to Nevermore's lead singer, Warrel Dane, "it's a very simple story about a man who slowly goes insane after losing a woman that he was very close to. Progressive levels of insanity are expressed in the songs, he goes through phases of denial and self-blame, blaming God, then denouncing God. The ending is a little...tragic, a little depressing. Shakesperian. Everybody dies, it's all happy."

The story is based on a personal experience of Dane's. One of his former girlfriends, Patricia Candace Walsh, ceased contact with him when she joined a religious group and was never heard from again, and he began having nightmares of her crying out to him as she drowned.[citation needed] In actuality, Walsh and her husband Douglas Zyskowski were murdered by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades in January 1990 while hitchhiking to a religious workshop in Georgia, although Dane was initially unaware of this.

The spoken word samples from the intro "Ophidian" and its 10-second reprise at the end of "Forever" are from the Clive Barker movie Lord of Illusions.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Warrel Dane; all music is composed by Nevermore.

1. "Ophidian" (instrumental) 0:46
2. "Beyond Within" 5:11
3. "The Death of Passion" 4:10
4. "I Am the Dog" 4:13
5. "Dreaming Neon Black" 6:26
6. "Deconstruction" 6:39
7. "The Fault of the Flesh" 4:54
8. "The Lotus Eaters" 4:25
9. "Poison Godmachine" 4:33
10. "All Play Dead" 4:58
11. "Cenotaph" 4:39
12. "No More Will" 5:45
13. "Forever" 9:20

Note: The song Forever has a run time of 2:35, followed by six minutes and 35 seconds of silence. This silence is followed a 10-second section from the opening track Ophidian.

Recording information:

Recorded at Village Productions, Tornillo, Texas, United States.

Neil Kernon – production, mixing, mastering

Justin Leeah – additional engineering

Bobby Torres – additional engineering

Raymon Breton – mastering

Travis Smith – illustrations, design, photography

Karen Mason-Blair – band photography

Louis Rusconi – additional photography www.Rusconi.com

Brad Gilson Jr. - additional photography