Dreamwake announce new album ‘The Lost Years’

July 20, 2025 James Weaver

DREAMWAKE have announced a new album!

The upcoming album, titled The Lost Years, is the sophomore full-length effort from the Connecticut-based metalcore/synthwave band (the follow-up to 2022’s Virtual Reality) and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via UNFD.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, DREAMWAKE have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Oasis. The new song is the third single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Afterglow and Heatwave.

Speaking about the new single, the band says, “Oasis explores themes of emotional isolation, internal conflict, and the weight of unhealed trauma. It’s told from the perspective of someone haunted by both personal pain and inherited wounds. They feel lost, yet endlessly chase a glimmer of peace they call their Oasis. There’s a longing for escape, a flicker of hope, but it’s tangled in despair and resignation, capturing a desperate attempt to hold on to meaning and identity while drowning in emotional darkness.”

Discussing the accompanying music video, the band adds, “we aimed to tell the story of someone who has spent their life running from the past, while still clinging to pieces of it. Throughout, you see this person gripping an old childhood photo, glancing at it nervously, clutching it like a lifeline as they speed through the night – fleeing their ghosts and chasing something that feels like salvation. In the end, they burn the photo in a symbolic act of letting go. But when they awaken, the photo is still in their hand, suggesting that this cycle of pain and pursuit is unending, a loop that refuses to break.”

Watch the official music video for Oasis here: