#dreamscape — Public Fediverse posts

clown house (warning: horror content)

#House #Clown #Horror #Surreal #BeachHouse #Ocean #Architecture #Colorful #Balloons #Balls #Whimsical #Bizarre #Dreamscape
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on un-scary things: https://aieris.art/featured/clown-house-warning-horror-content-eris-and-ai.html

First appearing on these pages back in 2016 with sophomore record Forsaken, progressive power outfit Noveria have made a habit of getting in their own way. After Forsaken failed to match its Evergreyed ambition with clumsy execution, the quintet bounced back in a big way with Aequilibrium (2019), a record packed with heaviness, melody and virtuosity that hinted at huge things for these Italians. Then regression reared its ugly head with 2024’s The Gates of the Underworld. Although Noveria cleverly reframed their emotional themes through mythological imagery, the album once again collapsed under the weakness of its songwriting, disappointing GardensTale enough to question whether he would ever review them again. Indeed, consistency has been elusive for Noveria, making their on-again, off-again pattern of releases particularly frustrating. But fret not, dear reader. If history is any guide, the pendulum should swing back toward the positive with fifth LP Becoming After, assuming the metal gods smile on us.

And smile they have. Striking a sweet spot between Symphony X and Dream Theater, with touches of Pagan’s Mind, Becoming After finds Noveria sounding like a band reborn. Talent has never been in short supply here, and their cup now runneth over, with drummer Paolo Conte and keyboardist Paolo Campitelli (ScreaMachine) replacing longtime members Davide Calabretta and Julien Spreutels, respectively, alongside the addition of vocalist Frank Marino (Dreamscape). These guys can flat-out play, and Becoming After reaps the benefits, delivering everything existing fans could hope for, only harder, faster and stronger. The aggressive riffs of Aequilibrium are pervasive, synched tightly with Conte’s kinetic rhythms and Campitelli’s synth embellishments, all bolstered by string arrangements by violinist Abigail Stahlschmidt and cellist Luca Basile on cuts like “Through Your Light”1 and “Convicted to Rise.” There’s even a few surprises thrown in for good measure, including djent-focused tracks (“Radiance,” “Heavenfall”) and serene ballads (“Through Your Light”) that help keep things fresh. Although the stylistic departures of “Heavenfall” and “Radiance” seem somewhat out of place within the broader context, they are executed well enough to keep momentum while still feeling fun and adventurous.

Losing most of your roster can hamstring even the best bands, but in Noveria’s case, the shakeup has proven transformative. Francesco Corigliano’s departure left a massive void, but Frank Marino is quick to quell any fears he can’t fill those shoes. The downfall of Gates was its lack of hooks and Mariano ensures that problem doesn’t persist on Becoming After, stuffing Noveria’s songs to the brim with hooks and towering choruses. Possessing James LaBrie’s (Dream Theater) buttery tone and multi-octave range, Marino tears through tracks like “Cold Flames,” “Convicted to Rise,” “Echoes From the Abyss,” and “Infinite Horizons” with a command that is increasingly rare these days. While his voice occasionally loses a bit of power when venturing into higher registers, it still more than holds its own against the record’s dense instrumentation.

As impressive as the vocal performance on Becoming After is, the rest of Noveria deserve equal recognition. Longtime guitarist Francesco Mattei drives the group’s sound with a barrage of muscular riffs that span progressive, power, and djent, setting his fretboard ablaze with virtuosic solos and rapid-fire scales that form the record’s ambitious foundation. When paired with Campitelli’s fleet-fingered keyboard solos, the two put on an absolute show that rivals the best in the business. Likewise, bassist Andrea Arcangeli’s (DGM) dynamic bass lines and Conte’s battering drum work provide a low-end backbone that underpins Noveria’s grandiose arrangements, resulting in songwriting that remains interesting throughout the record’s substantial 55-minute runtime. However, though not drastically overlong, Becoming After does periodically lose steam, most notably during the self-titled closing interlude, “Heavenfall” and “Viper’s Nest,” which are far from bad but feel overshadowed by the stronger material surrounding them.

Lineup changes be damned, Noveria have roared back with Becoming After, crafting an album with tremendous replay value and one that has beamed its way into my psyche with its memorable hooks and consistently strong songwriting. Progressive power metal can often veer into territory that is far too cheesy for my tastes, yet Becoming After strikes the ideal balance between over-the-top spectacle and tasteful restraint in a way that is both charming and difficult to stop listening to. Time will tell whether Becoming After finally breaks Noveria’s streak of inconsistent releases, but they now have my full attention.

Rating: Very Good
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 256 kbps mp3
Label: Scarlet Records
Websites: scarletrecords.bandcamp.com/album/becoming-after | noveriaofficial.com/home.html | facebook.com/NoveriaOfficial
Releases Worldwide: August 21st, 2026

the travellers made us a guest planet so we could visit their reality (getting some things right and more things weird)

#Surreal #SciFi #GuestPlanet #AlienWorld #Beach #Ocean #Waves #Sailboat #Lanterns #Mountains #Island #Clouds #Hourglass #Whimsical #Dreamscape #AlternateReality
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on actually correct stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/the-travellers-made-us-a-guest-planet-so-we-could-visit-their-reality-getting-some-things-right-eris-and-ai.html

Central Arcade

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/central-arcade-justin-farrimond.html

In this dream you get one last chance to visit JG Windows in the Central Arcade.
A Tyneside tradition lost to time and so called progress.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #PhotographyIsArt #Yesteryear #Dreamscape #Newcastle #Windows

Holding For Bubbles

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/holding-for-bubbles-justin-farrimond.html

When nothing in life makes sense you can either strip naked and drag yourself across a flooded floor on a plastic tea tray, or you can do nothing. Wait.
Here we are holding for bubbles.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #PhotographyIsArt #Dreamscape

All.I.Cannot.Be

A Prayer for Presence

May I be present
to what is before me,
as present as I can be.

May I be open
to whomever is before me,
as open as I can be.

May I be in tune with Thee,
as in tune as I can be.

May I be gentle with myself,
as gentle as I can be.

For however little
I am present,
open,
listening,
or gentle,

Thou art able to be
all that I cannot be.

glitterland

#Abstract #Fractal #Sparkle #Crystal #Organic #Filigree #Lace #Intricate #MacroStyle #Iridescent #Dreamscape #Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on dull stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/glitterland-eris-and-ai.html

Down In A Culgaith Daydream

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/down-in-a-culgaith-daydream-justin-farrimond.html

The signs are there in this daydream, you just need a little direction.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #PhotographyIsArt #Dreamscape #Culgaith

Cityscape Techno Castle

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/cityscape-techno-castle-justin-farrimond.html

Within dreamscape we have the chance to see the world differently. The architecture of the streets beneath a transdimensional cloak.
You will always be here, and it will always be now.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography Art #Print #Dreamscape #Psychogeography #PhotographyIsArt #Architecture #InteriorDesign

Night Falls Over Three Bells

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/night-falls-over-three-bells-justin-farrimond.html

Wait for me and at three bells I shall appear.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #PhotographyIsArt #Monochrome #Maritime #Haunted #Dreamscape #FilmPhotography #NightFalls

postcard from a surreal vacation

#Postcard #Surreal #Vacation #Beach #Seaside #Coastal #Island #TurquoiseWater #Cottage #BlueDoor #WhiteWalls #FloatingWindows #Fantasy #Dreamscape #Sunny #Whimsical #SeasideEscape
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on real real stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/postcard-from-a-surreal-vacation-eris-and-ai.html

The Places in My Dreams

The world within, the world of my dreams, is similar to the one I walk through every day. But it is different.

The streets bend strangely. The rooms open where they should not. The people and places are often indifferent to me, and sometimes, they are even antagonistic.

They are not merely people and places. They are representations of emotions I have not yet worked through from the previous day. Sixteen waking hours are not enough to fully grasp all that I have experienced, endured, feared, desired, regretted, or misunderstood.

And so, in the night, these things come alive.

They take on faces. They become houses, roads, crowds, locked doors, ruined landscapes, familiar rooms made unfamiliar. They guide me through the shadow lands—not always kindly, but truthfully. They show me what I could not see while awake.

My dreams are not escapes from the day.

They are the day returning in another form, asking to be understood.

Some nights I find myself back in places I have never been, and yet they feel older than memory. A school that was never my school. A church with hallways that keep multiplying. A childhood home rearranged by grief. A city I know by instinct, though no map has ever held it.

In these places, I am often trying to get somewhere.

I am late. I am lost. I am looking for someone. I am trying to explain myself to people who will not listen. I am searching for a room, a door, a vehicle, a path, a way home. Sometimes I am carrying something fragile. Sometimes I have forgotten what I was supposed to carry. Sometimes I am responsible for a task I do not understand, surrounded by people who seem to know the rules but refuse to tell me.

This is the cruelty of the dream world: everyone else seems initiated.

They move through the strange landscape as if it is ordinary. They know which hallway leads out, which road is safe, which bus to board, which door not to open. I am the stranger in a world that somehow belongs to me. I am the dreamer, and yet I am not in control.

Perhaps this is why the places feel antagonistic. They do not hate me. They are simply unwilling to flatter me. They will not pretend I am finished with what I have not faced. They will not comfort me with easy explanations. They turn my emotions into architecture and ask me to walk through them.

Fear becomes a narrow bridge.

Regret becomes a house with too many locked rooms.

Anger becomes a storm on the edge of town.

Shame becomes a crowd that sees me before I am ready to be seen.

Grief becomes a road that always returns to the same place.

And longing—longing becomes a light in a window I can never quite reach.

I wake from these dreams with the feeling that I have traveled farther than my body could have gone. I have crossed cities, fields, stairways, basements, sanctuaries, ruins, and train stations. I have spoken with the dead and avoided the living. I have been judged by strangers and ignored by friends. I have wandered through the unfinished weather of my own soul.

Then morning comes, and the ordinary world returns.

The walls are where I left them. The floor is solid. The dog needs to go out. The coffee waits. The phone glows with its small demands. The day begins again, pretending to be separate from the night.

But I know better.

The dream has left its residue. A feeling follows me, sometimes faint, sometimes heavy. A hallway from the dream lingers inside the hallway of the house. A face from the night appears behind the face of someone I know. A mood clings to the morning like fog.

The shadow lands do not vanish when I wake.

They retreat.

They wait beneath the visible world, beneath errands and conversations, beneath sermons and chores, beneath the version of myself that knows how to answer when someone asks, “How are you?”

I say, “I’m fine.”

But somewhere beneath that answer, an entire city is still burning, or flooding, or rebuilding itself in the dark.

Dragon Dream

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/dragon-dream-justin-farrimond.html

In this dreamscape a dragon awaits.
Have you got your magic sword?

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #Dreamscape #Fantasy #Dragon #PhotographyIsArt

a patchwork reality

#Cottage #BeachHouse #Seaside #Ocean #Path #Surreal #Dreamscape #PatchworkSky #Clouds #AdobeHouse #Stucco #Tree #DesertPlants
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion #Midjourney

in solid life: https://aieris.art/featured/a-patchwork-reality-eris-and-ai.html

ufo coming through!

#Ufo #FlyingSaucer #Alien #Extraterrestrial #SciFi #Desert #Sand #Tree #Driftwood #Seashell #Shell #Portal #Doorway #Surreal #Whimsical #Dreamscape #Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on earth stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/ufo-coming-through-eris-and-ai.html

Evening at The Lifeboat

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/evening-at-the-lifeboat-justin-farrimond.html

A traditional harbour pub seen through a dark dreamscape lens.
This could be Maryport.
This could be your last night on earth.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Photography #Art #Print #Architecture #Pub #Dreamscape #England #PhotographyIsArt

cottage by the glass pillars

#Cottage #GlassPillars #Seaside #Ocean #FantasyArchitecture #Tower #GlowingWindows #Dreamscape #Surreal #Magical
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion #Midjourney

want? have: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cottage-by-the-glass-pillars-eris-and-ai.html?newartwork=true

a flying dream for when i go to sleep mad

#Dreamscape #Courtyard #Seascape #Liminal #Pastel #Sky #Clouds #Fantasy #Airy #Flight
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

in waking life: https://aieris.art/featured/a-flying-dream-for-when-i-go-to-sleep-mad-eris-and-ai.html

Ascending The Tower At Sector 7

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/ascending-the-tower-at-sector-7-justin-farrimond.html

You're always where you are no matter how high you go.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Dreamscape #Photography #Art #Print #Architecture #Transtemporal

all roads lead from

#Mystical #Landscape #Tree #Road #Mountains #Sky #Vortex #Dreamscape #Cosmic #StarryRoad #Valley #Pathway #Sun
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

want? have: https://aieris.art/featured/all-roads-lead-from-eris-and-ai.html

floating landscape

#Fantasy #FloatingIslands #Surreal #Landscape #Mountains #Lake #Clouds #Futuristic #Scenic #Dreamscape #Imaginative #Panoramic #SciFi #Otherworldly #Immersive
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on grounded things: https://aieris.art/featured/floating-landscape-eris-and-ai.html?newartwork=true

alternate dimension with a walk-out basement

#AlternateDimension #Doorways #Layered #Sculptural #Pastel #Flowing #Surreal #Whimsical #Dreamscape #SciFi #Curved #Immersive
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

in this-dimension life: https://aieris.art/featured/alternate-dimension-with-a-walk-out-basement-eris-and-ai.html