Niki N. Phaser

The only good thing that came from watching a lame movie by the name of Stealth was that I heard this song, Bug Eyes by dredg, lost somewhere on the end titles, if I’m not mistaken. dredg are regarded as some kind of experimental band, probably because they sometimes use a slide guitar (like on Bug Eyes) and the drummer, Dino Campanella also plays the piano. They seem to have the destiny of some crazy prog-rock outfit, but their music is actually very accessible and melodic, as you can hear in Bug Eyes. The song even has some of that urgency, common to the most popular emo-alternative bands like My Chemical Romance or 30 Seconds to Mars, but Gavin Hayes doesn’t sound like a child trying to sing black metal. Lyrically, Bug Eyes is quite abstract, but the chorus does conjure some 2001: A Space Odyssey images: “Your journey back to birth is haunting you, it’s haunting you,
Your departure from the earth is haunting you, it’s haunting you”. There is a lot of emotion in this song and it does sound natural, not induced by the band’s genre.

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