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| Released | January 26, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||
| Studio | Village Productions (Tornillo, Texas) | |||
| Genre | Progressive metal, thrash metal, heavy metal[1] | |||
| Length | 66:05 | |||
| Label | Century Media | |||
| Producer | Neil Kernon | |||
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| 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.
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.
- ^ Metal Crypt Review
- ^ Dreaming Neon Black at AllMusic
- ^ Schäfer, Wolfgang. "Rock Hard". issue 140. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ^ Metal Injection
- ^ "IMPACT - Interview with Warrel Dane (Sanctuary, Nevermore)". September 19, 2016. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Nevermore Interview, Part I - Infernal Dominion Magazine". Angelfire.
- ^ "Trucker Admits to More Murders". ABC News. March 30, 2012.