Release Date July 24th, 2026
Format CD
Genre Melodic Black Metal
Origin Brazil
Litosth formed in Brazil in 2016 around Maicon Ristow, responsible for vocals and all music, and Wendel Siota, responsible for lyrics and bass. The band entered the underground with "Crossed Parallels Of Self Refraction", followed by "Farther From The Sun" and "Cesariana", three albums that joined black metal, death metal, bleak melody, and philosophical writing. "Dreaming" is the fourth full length and the next descent in that path. The two member lineup has never limited the scale of the music.
Ristow builds every musical layer, from guitars and percussion to keyboards and voices, while Siota shapes the words around collapse, broken belief, moral erosion, emptiness, and mankind’s instinct for self destruction. Here the focus narrows around a complete spiritual fall, where faith offers no rescue and the idea of ascent becomes another lie. There is no fantasy of healing in this material. Its human figures destroy
their own beliefs, and then discover that nothing waits underneath. That idea connects the band’s entire history, and "Dreaming" treats it with the least mercy. Litosth approaches extreme metal as a place for thought as much as aggression and the band’s background now reads as a steady descent toward colder, darker, and more severe material.
At forty six minutes, "Dreaming" unfolds across eight songs as one downward motion. The production is full and compact, placing guitars, percussion, voices, and keyboards inside a suffocating mass where melody survives beneath the aggression. Tremolo lines, death metal surges, slow passages, and broad keyboard layers move the album through different shades of collapse without breaking its central course. The vocals range from low roars to distant screams and layered chants, giving the music a ceremonial edge. The longer songs are disciplined, built through returning themes, exact transitions, and gradual changes in intensity. Several passages remain on the same emotional level longer than needed, reducing the impact around the middle.
The final stretch restores urgency and closes with absolute finality. "Dreaming" is bleak, severe, and carefully assembled, with melodic depth under every layer of aggression. The first play is dominated by atmosphere. Later plays expose smaller guitar lines, keyboard details, and vocal layers that deepen the descent. Litosth has made an album that rewards attention without turning intricacy into ornament. Its ideas are grim, its sound is imposing, and its songwriting stays focused across the full running time. No comfort, no redemption, no false light. Only collapse turned into sound.
|8.3
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