Pike Dreams, by The Mountain King

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Pike Dreams is a purely instrumental album built as a slow cycle of reflection on human history across the last two millennia.

Each track is titled after an pivotal year in the Gregorian calendar, moments of rupture whose consequences continued long after the events themselves had passed. These years are not portrayed narratively, but approached as pressure points: points where power, violence, belief and collapse left lasting traces.

Musically, Pike Dreams moves from fragile, near-disintegrating synthesizer tones to dense drones and crushing doom structures. Repetition, duration and physical weight take precedence over melody or conventional song form. The album is intended to be experienced as a whole, unfolding tension over time rather than offering isolated moments.

Pike Dreams was written in a period marked by simultaneous excess and exhaustion, an era of unprecedented consumption paired with widespread psychological collapse. Instead of escapism, the album turns toward endurance, decay and the long-term costs of progress.

The record does not offer answers. It lingers where certainty dissolves and discomfort remains - in the space between what was promised and what endured.

This is not a dream of the past.

It is a reckoning with what has survived it.

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released March 6, 2026

Eric McQueen - Beats, Synths, Instruments, Guitar
Frank Grimbarth - Electric Guitars
Robert Furbished - Synths, Programming

Cover art by Apes Of Doom - www.instagram.com/apes_of_doom

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Robert - synths, programming

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