"The Music Coming Out Of A Lot Of Bands Is Quite Stale"

Dream On Dreamer are, in a lot of ways, the perfect touring band prototype.

Since forming in 2009, the post-hardcore group from Melbourne released EPs in 2009 and 2010, and have put out two albums – 2011’s Heartbound and 2013’s Loveless. The band spent all of 2013 and part of 2014 touring Loveless around the world, and have been slowly transitioning into new material for their new album, which is currently in the works.

The band got back from Europe about a month ago and Gadacz is still buzzed. “I’d say it’s our best European tour we’ve done so far. It’s obviously so much fun, you meet such great people, the people you tour with. It felt like playing to our home crowds. There were a lot of mainland Europe shows this time and I couldn’t say a bad thing about it.”

He even got to play at a club in Berlin – his home city – he used to frequent before moving to Australia. “We played at a club called Columbia Club or something, and I went to a show there when I was 17 and still living in Germany – Bring Me The Horizon was playing. It was really cool to go there and play our own show.”

Since being home, the band have been hard at work piecing together their new album, while promoting it through the steady release of singles, the first being released in August last year – Darkness Brought Me Here. “The album’s just all been happening behind the scenes. We spent the most part of last year finalising it and it’s all locked in now, we’re just putting together a few bits and pieces together... Since getting back from tour we’ve just been getting the new single sorted, and everything that goes with it – music videos and art work for a new single... I’ve just been flat out doing graphic design stuff, really.”

"I wanted to push myself... figure out ways to deliver lyrics that aren’t just screamed."

The band’s seen a couple of line-up changes over the last few years, and naturally, the current line-up are looking to clean the slate with the new material and work on an overall improvement of their sound. “This time... we weren’t really pressured for when we had to have it done, so we got to spend more time writing songs we actually like, that we enjoy playing. We felt like we could really unfold and be ourselves on this record, and make sure that we were making music that we ourselves would personally love listening to.

"Nowadays, the music coming out of a lot of bands is quite stale, so we just really wanted to find our own sound, and we’re finally there. We still wanted to be a heavy band, but I think its a lot more melodic this time. There’s a lot more elements we can play with now too. We’ve never really had the experience of me doing clean singing on any of our previous albums, so we’ve moved a little towards that; I just wanted to become a better vocalist. I wanted to push myself and play with that sort of stuff more, figure out ways to deliver lyrics that aren’t just screamed and heavy. With this next release, we’ve really pushed ourselves.”