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| Released | August 22, 2025 | |||
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| Length | 45:00 | |||
| Label | Epitaph | |||
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Dreams of Being Dust is the fifth studio album by American emo band The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die. The album was released on August 22, 2025, through Epitaph Records.
The album was co-produced by the band's guitarist Chris Teti and metalcore band End's guitarist Gregory Thomas. [1] It centers on the theme of worldly injustices and incorporates metalcore and progressive emo. [1]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Beats Per Minute | 59% [2] |
| Kerrang | 4/5 [3] |
| New Noise |  [4] |
| Pitchfork | 6.2/10 [1] |
| Sputnikmusic | 4.0/5 [5] |
Kerrang! assigned it a rating of four out of five and noted, "Fuelled by personal tragedies and savage times, this fifth album is understandably dark in tone, but never feels too austere to engage." [3]
The album received a rating of 6.2 from Pitchfork, whose reviewer Patrick Lyons remarked, "Gnarly, compressed guitars are paired with shouted or snarled vocals; noodly harmonized riffs accompany the more skyward-reaching singing." [1] Beats Per Minute gave it a percentage score of 59 and described it as "not a 'confused' work lacking identity, but it is dubiously effective in its overall approach," opining that it "aims to reflect the staggering, formidable nature of contemporaneity by looking to new sonic palettes for resonance, producing songs charged with veritable grief, ferocity, and passion on part of the group." [2]
Sputnikmusic staff member Sowing observed that the album is "leaner, angrier, and four more years removed from whatever sliver of post-pandemic light once existed," commenting "It's clear the direction they think the world is heading in." [5] New Noise 's Lamar Ramos rated the album five stars and referred to it as "a violent record for violent times, but it's also a testament to endurance." [4]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Dimmed Sun" | 3:46 |
| 2. | "Se Sufre Pero Se Goza" | 2:33 |
| 3. | "No Pilgrim" | 4:04 |
| 4. | "Beware the Centrist" | 1:44 |
| 5. | "Oubliette" | 4:02 |
| 6. | "Captagon" | 4:29 |
| 7. | "Dissolving" | 3:33 |
| 8. | "Reject All and Submit" | 3:38 |
| 9. | "December 4, 2024" | 3:55 |
| 10. | "Auguries of Guilt" | 5:34 |
| 11. | "For Those Who Will Outlive Us" | 7:03 |
| Total length: | 44:21 | |
Credits adapted from Bandcamp and Tidal. [6] [7]