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Podcast: Dreams of Consciousness
Episode: 273: Downfall Of Gaia
Description: Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 273 features an interview with Dominik Goncalves dos Reis of Downfall of Gaia.
Downfall Of Gaia combine everything from post-rock to sludge and dark crust to create their own style of atmospheric "post-black metal", which studiously avoids the clichés of their more "kvlt" peers. The (mostly) German group may not wear corpsepaint or spiked gauntlets, but their songs still contain the bleakness and melancholy that characterized black metal's second wave.
I spoke with guitarist/vocalist Dominik Goncalves dos Reis about how Downfall Of Gaia's sound developed from their previous crust band, Toxic Nation, and their d...