Dressed in Streams might be America’s best-kept black metal secret, and it’s certainly one of black metal’s most unique acts, DIS is the project of an anonymous Grand Rapids musician(s?) who is inspired by World War II-era India and plays psychedelic, synth-blasting atmospheric black metal that’s as beastly as it is gorgeous. What a mouthful, but what a band. Dressed In Streams’ songs are long, epic affairs that surf an ever-cresting wave of trilling guitar triumph, where raspy screams are drowned under layers-upon-layers of thick noise haze. Synths soar nearly constantly in the back, more like lasers than anything else. Leave it to Colloquial Sound Recordings, at this point probably metal’s premier cassette-releasing label, to dig up these gems that were later rereleased by another of metal’s finest labels, Handmade Birds, as a double EP. Dressed In Streams plays outsider metal with an absolutely immersive otherworldly aesthetic, yet there’s still mainstream appeal — quite a feat. –Wyatt [LISTEN]