The Dear Hunter - Act I

The Dear Hunter - Act IThe first release from former The Receiving End Of Sirens vocalist guitarist Casey Crescenzo and the record that started it all. Originally recorded while still a member of TREOS Act I kicked off a years long series of Act releases.

and loneliness

titled Sumday: The Cassette Demos

Limited double picture disc vinyl LP pressing features the cover color variants from the album's original CD release

If the previous album was filled with high-tension numbers based on impact sounds and repetitive motifs

While the goth scene in England was picking up commercial steam in the mid-'80s

Listening to his music you can feel it: This is someone who completely abandons himself to his art - and someone with an incredible amount of knowledge about the depth of possibility guitar music can explore

'Mad Rush' was written for the occasion of the Dalai Lama's first visit in New York City

The album was released during a period in which the United States was mainly focused on grunge music

the seven sorrows

and apocalyptic anger into pure gold

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along with full annotation by Alan Robinson