[221108] Dreamcatcher keeps making history, Let’s take a look at the group’s new album on Weverse Magazine

The K-pop scene has been increasingly full of songs borrowing elements from rock music lately. This year in particular has seen more and more artists experimenting with adding distorted guitars on top of different beats—perhaps in a show of rebelliousness. BTS layered crunchy guitar over an old-school hip hop drum loop in “Run BTS,” DRIPPIN mixed it with a modern K-pop trap beat in “ZERO” and TOMORROW X TOGETHER used it as flavor overtop post-processing-laden conga drums in “Good Boy Gone Bad.” And this isn’t limited to guitar: Several groups have pursued a dark pop rock style. Xdinary Heroes used a standard rock band formation in their song “Test Me” while (G)I-DLE and Billlie took the pop rock sound and added eye-catching choreography in their songs “TOMBOY” and “RING ma Bell (what a wonderful world),” respectively. But any discussion of this trend of distorted guitars and hard-hitting drums would be incomplete if we didn’t touch on K-pop rock’s most regular proponent over the past five years—a group that’s practically monopolized the sound for themselves. We’re talking, of course, about Dreamcatcher.