DREAM ON, DREAMER Homebound (2011) CD

Australian metalcore in 2011 was producing some of the most technically sharp and emotionally raw music in the genre worldwide, and Melbourne's Dream on, Dreamer were right in the middle of it. Homebound is the record that proved it.

Their debut full-length hit hard in all the right ways, clean vocals trading blows with breakdowns, the kind of dynamic that post-hardcore was built on but rarely executed this cleanly. For an Australian band to land on international radars with a debut this confident was no small thing, and Homebound remains a document of what the local hardcore and alternative metal scene was capable of at its peak. This is Australian made music worth owning on a physical format, not just streaming into the void.

CD, 2011 Australian pressing.

Fans of: Memphis May Fire, Miss May I, Like Moths to Flames, Kingdom of Giants