Our empty bodies offering to the universal dust
As we become vessels for the stars
Greece’s Reflection Black operates with the certainty of a band that knows exactly where its pulse lives. Athens shapes their atmosphere, but the group’s identity comes from the chemistry Elis Alex has forged across years of studio alchemy and stage work. With Dreams Fade to Nothing, their momentum tightens into something leaner and more immediate.
The guitars drive the mood with clean precision, cutting across the mix in bright lines. Vocals glide through with a tone that hooks without strain, giving the melody room to breathe. Bass and drums move in tight formation, building a low, rolling pressure that holds the track together. The layers align easily, each one adding shape without crowding the others.
The lyrics drift through a half-lit realm where sleep becomes a doorway and the self unhooks from gravity. Bodies turn weightless, carried toward astral distance, chasing a hunger for the void’s quiet pull. Light slips away, forms dissolve, and what’s left is a spirit leaning into the infinite, embracing the moment where dreams lose their shape and fall away.
“Dreams Fade to Nothing explores astral projection, a journey of the spirit in search of transcendence, where fulfillment comes only through embracing the emptiness of the higher planes,” says Alex. It’s a description that pairs well with the song’s lift—lyrics reaching upward while the arrangement keeps everything steady underfoot.
There’s also a streak of lineage in their approach: you can hear hints of The Chameleons in the tall, ringing guitar lines – those chords that feel like they’re stretching toward the skyline. The low-end weight nods toward Killing Joke, a sense of propulsion that moves with purpose rather than chaos. And somewhere in the vocal phrasing, there’s a ghost of The Damned’s theatrical bite, the ability to sound both dead-serious and a little unhinged in the same breath.
The accompanying video, produced by Jim Georgosopoulos, extends the track’s atmosphere into something tactile. The band performs in a forest caught between dusk and pitch-black, the trees forming a crooked frame around them. Between the performance cuts, a ritual unfolds—pagan symbols, firelit gestures, an air of deliberate secrecy. Nothing feels staged for shock; instead, the visuals mirror the song’s tone: deliberate, focused, and rooted in the group’s fascination with the esoteric.
Watch the video for “Dreams Fade to Nothing” below:
Reflection Black have spent the past few years refining their direction through EPs, a full-length, and a growing presence onstage beside names like Then Comes Silence and Scheitan. Dreams Fade to Nothing lands as their most concentrated statement yet: a track built on clarity, belief in their instincts, and a drive that carries easily into the next phase of their catalogue.
Listen to Dreams Fade To Nothing below and order the single here.
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