| Dreaming Neon Black | ||||
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| Released | January 26, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Studio | Village Productions (Tornillo, Texas) | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, gothic metal, heavy metal [1] | |||
| Length | 66:05 | |||
| Label | Century Media | |||
| Producer | Neil Kernon | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Rock Hard |    [3] |
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.
Contents
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." [4]
The story is based on a personal experience of Dane's. One of his former girlfriends, Patricia Candace Walsh, [5] ceased contact with him when she joined a religious group and was never heard from again, [6] 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, [7] 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 .
