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New Track Premiere - "Odium" - Available From Dissona

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Chicago’s progressive metal masterminds Dissona has partnered with Metal Underground.com to bring you the first taste from the new album "Paleopneumatic." Check out "Odium" in the player below.

Dissona melds a dynamic range of musical styles, developing an incredibly moving, diverse sound. The band consistently captivates fans with mesmerizing songs, powerful live performances and poignant lyrical themes, including sentience, emotion, sexuality, and much more.

With the band's most most ambitious release yet, "Paleopneumatic" epitomizes Dissona’s endeavors to date and brings the listener on an existential, cohesive journey with gripping melodies, expertly-crafted arrangements, and impassioned vocals.

"Paleopneumatic" will be self released on January 15th. Its track listing is as follows:

1. Another Sky

2. Fire-Bellied

3. Outside the Skin

4. Breach

5. Totality

6. Odium

7. Anastomosis

8. Lysis

9. The Last Resistance

10. Sunderance

The band commented on the new album: “We are incredibly proud of 'Paleopneumatic.' It is the culmination of years of agonizing, hard work and consequently our most fully realized production to date. We hope 'Paleopneumatic' can mean as much to you as it does to us.”

As for the song "Odium" the band added: "Odium is a metaphorical character profile of a being with little to no regard for the preservation of life. From a musical standpoint, the song develops and builds through several rhythmic and melodic changes until reaching an immense climax. All the while, maintaining a dark, exotic atmosphere."

Metal Underground.com is proud to present "Odium" here:

Dissona formed from the ashes of a previous band involving Matt Motto, David Dubenic, and Craig Hamburger. David and Craig come from a mostly classical and extreme metal background while Drew and Matt bring in additional elements of jazz experience and other more eclectic music. Since the band's inception, the members have approached writing music to always be experienced as an album, a package of disparate influences and moods meant to achieve a unified whole. This melting pot of influences has gradually coalesced since the writing of their earliest material, through the defining Dissona album, and now into its most complete form with "Paleopneumatic." Seven years in and a multitude of mostly memorable gigs later Dissona has found what it has initially set out to achieve.

Dissona has graced the stage with artists such as Unexpect, Sigh, Opeth, High on Fire, Cynic, Three, Fate’s Warning, Symphony X, Dark Tranquility, Twelve Foot Ninja, Leprous, etc.