Lisbon is Portugal’s capital city, rich with history, and it is also where Doom Metal quintet My Dementia came together a decade ago. A band including Miguel and Vasco Carneiro, by Daniel Ferreira, Pedro Conde, and Guilherme Serôdio, has unleashed bleak, somber music onto the Metal world. First independently releasing their debut EP, The Struggle (to Find One’s Identity), in 2015 to a strong reaction, it was not until 2025 that we finally have the first-ever full-length album from My Dementia, Premonição: Só Me Arrependo Do Que Não Vivi.
Releasing on May 8, 2025, through Caverna Abismal Records, the album is a deep and dark successor to the band’s initial offering. Now even darker than intended, this album’s significance has a tragic distinction that has pushed the band’s personal and emotional depths to their limits. Providing further explanation, soon after production had wrapped on the recording, in a fierce and heartbreaking twist of fate, the band’s frontman/guitarist, Miguel Carneiro, tragically passed away. An event that transforms the album from a showcase of the band’s evolution into a memorial honoring Carneiro’s legacy with what is now his final work, there is a lot to explore.
Heavy and dark is only one aspect of this record. Genre descriptors such as Doom Metal and Death Metal are apt but fall short in this case. These words do not paint a detailed enough picture of this album. Clocking in at over an hour in length through six tracks, these are epic doom songs. Long and thunderous, this album is hypnotic.
In enough words, you will be mesmerized, yet fully aware of the musical drama unfolding before you. The tremendous weight and depth of this album have only been increased by the tragedy that has befallen the band. Powerful crushing guitars are delivered by Vasco Carneiro and Daniel Ferreira, who use simple riffs arranged in such a way as to be haunting and engaging. With that in mind, the guitar work is interesting in its flow and crushing brutality. Meanwhile, Miguel Carneiro’s voice is dramatically haunting, combining guttural growls and soulful clean vocals to convey a kind of desperate, bleak emotion. Rounding out the sound, Bassist Pedro Conde and Drummer Guilherme Serôdio provide a deeply rooted foundation for the band’s unique, relentless, glacial momentum.
The tone of Premonição: Só Me Arrependo Do Que Não Vivi is one of despair and sadness. The late Miguel Carneiro was the architect of this masterpiece of misery pouring from his overflowing cup of gloom and anguish, which is evident in the sheer weight of emotion conveyed in this piece. Again, a collective monster of music, it should be consumed all at once, but stand-out tracks would have to include “Noite Terrível,” “The Abyss,” and “The Eternal Wanderer.”
Now a posthumous release, Premonição: Só Me Arrependo Do Que Não Vivi is an interesting listen with depth and texture that explores very dark themes. Death and Doom Metal are on full display, delivered in a package of diverse musical landscapes while retaining one thousand percent of the plodding and churning down-tuned riffs that grip the soul. That is why Cryptic Rock gives Premonição: Só Me Arrependo Do Que Não Vivi 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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