Dool - Summerland - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'Founded in 2015 in Rotterdam the Netherlands with a name derived from the Dutch word for Inchwandering,Inch dark rockers Dool embarked on an ongoing spiritual and musical journey that took them far within a short amount of time on the strength of just one album. However hearing the sophomore InchSummerland,Inch you can't help but think it's successful predecessor (ranked #13 among the InchBest 100 Albums Of The New MillenniumInch by German magazine Rock Hard) was just a warm-up. InchOur debut 'Here Now There Then' was a big experiment because we could not foresee at all how the band would sound,Inch reveals singer guitarist and overall powerhouse Ryanne van Dorst. InchI took the skeletons of songs I had written to the other members and we just started to jam seeing what would happen. That was what we recorded but we only found our own style while playing gigs during the last few years. The material kept growing on stage so on the InchLove Like BloodInch EP you could already hear that we had become more confident.Inch InchSummerlandInch encapsulates the meaning behind the quintet's monicker. Expansive and more varied on all fronts it represents the constant evolution that goes along with the soul's quest for ascension resulting in a bedazzling mix of dark and post rock Midde Eastern flourishes psychedelia and metal. Each track displays it's own identity within a loose thematic frame as summarized in the climactic title track the struggle to find a place in this world reaching some ultimate state mind ecstatic pleasure and reincarnation also inspired by Richard Matheson's novel InchWhat Dreams May ComeInch as a modern take on the Biblical cycles of hell. InchThe term 'summerland' comes from paganism and refers to heaven nirvana or whatever else you'd like to call it,Inch the lyricist explains. InchSince I usually write from experience and about what keeps me awake at