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Paleopneumatic

by Dissona

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udon SOMETHING HAS GROWN
IT IS MY APPRECIATION OF THIS SICK ALBUM Favorite track: Another Sky.
Rod Astorga
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Rod Astorga And this, my friends, is what you call "a damn good album." Dissona wears their musical heart on their sleeve, taking inspiration from several genres across the world, ranging from (but not limited to) intense tribal drumming reminiscent of Latin America, the mind bending riffs from Sweden's Opeth and Meshuggah and melodic ideas hailing from the Middle east.This album truly a work of art and a must listen for any fans of prog-metal. Favorite track: Lysis.
Johan
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Johan Stunning progressive metal, unique!
Denis
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Denis Easily one of my favorite discoveries recently. The album is an all-around work of art. The same way you see more every time you look at a great art piece, the unique and complex sound had me listening again and again, enjoying it more and more each time.
Lekiwi
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Lekiwi "The truth is, you’ll be met with an eclectic array of styles and sounds that requires your undivided attention."

"The playful nature of the instrumentation creates a veritable aural rollercoaster."

"...Paleopneumatic is nothing short of impressive."

Full review here: metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=13806 Favorite track: Outside The Skin.
Eric Fisher
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Eric Fisher I haven't been this surprised by a group I've discovered in quite awhile. It's a marvelous and cascading aural presentation, blending elements of at least half a dozen genres into a beautiful array of musical ambition. At times haunting, at other times downright choleric, this album is one of the best I have heard in years. Favorite track: Lysis.
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1.
Another Sky 09:29
ANOTHER SKY UPON FIRST DISCOVERY OF THE PLACE OF DESERTION NOTHINGNESS WOULD SEEM PERPETUAL BUT SOMETHING HAS GROWN SOMETHING OF PERPLEXITY SOMETHING IN THE UNKNOWN SOMETHING RISING FROM BELOW AND POINTING TOWARD THE SKIES DESPERATION WILL LEAD TO EXPLORATION AND SOON TO OBLIVION SHROUDING THE WARNINGS SCREAMING THAT NOTHING CAN PREPARE THE MIND FOR WHAT IT MAY FIND IN THE EVENT THAT IT SHOULD SURVIVE THE CRIES FROM BELOW SWALLOWED WHOLE MAY ONLY BE FOUND FROM BENEATH THE GROUND SO IT IS TOLD... THE SHADOWS OF LIFE SWALLOWED BY TIME STILL RISE FROM THE SOIL AND GROW TOWARD THE STARS THE CRIES FROM BELOW OF LONG AGO MAY ONLY BE KNOWN WITHIN THE STONE THE CRIES FROM BELOW SWALLOWED WHOLE MAY ONLY BE FOUND BELOW GROUND MUTATION STRANGE PROGRESSION EVOLUTION OF A NEW EXTREMITY WANDERING WITHIN THE VOID DRIFTING BY THE GLOWING WIND ECHOES OF ANOTHER KIND HAVE SURVIVED AND HOPE THAT SOMETHING ELSE IS STILL ALIVE SURVIVAL REVIVAL ARRIVAL IS DIRE ALL THAT REMAINS IN THE SAND SCATTERED ACROSS BARREN LAND RELICS OF LIFE THE MEMORIES OF THE END WEATHERED BY THE AGES OF THUNDER GROWING UNDER COMPELLED BY WHAT IS LEFT OF THEIR ESSENCE AND LONGING FOR MORE SHADOWS OF LIFE SWALLOWED BY TIME RISE FROM THE SOIL AND DWELL UNDER ANOTHER SKY
2.
Fire-Bellied 08:22
FIRE-BELLIED THE FACES SURROUND ALL THAT IS KNOWN AND STARE THROUGH ONE ANOTHER SOMETHING IS LOST OR WAS NEVER THERE IN EVERY CLOUDED DIRECTION ONLY UNCERTAINTY LIES AHEAD SO MANY OF THIS KIND INVARIABLY REAPPEAR ALL REARED BY OBSTINACY ENTWINED IN ABSOLUTE FEAR THRUST INTO EXISTENCE AND MISGUIDED BY FLYING FIRE EXTRACTED FROM A SIMPLE MOLD AND TOLD WHAT TO DESIRE FLOODED BY SICKNESS WE ARE CURSED GUIDED BY WEAKNESS WE ARE LOST SO MANY WILL FALL BEHIND SURRENDER TO WHAT UNFOLDS AND FAIL TO REMEMBER THOSE FIGHTING FOR THE UNKNOWN AND WHEN ILLUSION FADES IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO RESCUE OURSELVES WITH THE FIRE OF REALITY LIGHTING UP THE SKY FLOODED BY SICKNESS WE ARE CURSED GUIDED BY WEAKNESS WE ARE LOST SO OUR TIME IS SWIFTLY RUNNING LOW TO FILL THIS EMPTY HOLE IN OUR LIVES WE STRIP ALL THAT WE KNOW IN SEARCH OF SOMETHING MORE SHOULD WE FALL THE END WILL COME TO ALL BUT PAIN IS NOT THE WORLD AWAITING YOU WARMTH WILL SLIDE SOFTLY OVER THE EYES AND ALL SHALL FADE WAY INTO THE BLUE
3.
OUTSIDE THE SKIN EMERGING BEFORE ANOTHER KIND OF DAWN ONE FORGOTTEN BY TIME YET STILL INSIDE OF ALL KIND INTEGRATION AMIDST AN EMPTY SHELL OF A WORLD IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN BEING THAT SOMEHOW IS SO FAMILIAR TO ME I KNOW THIS MORE THAN MYSELF WE COALESCE INSIDE A STATE OF BEING THAT CAME BEFORE EVERYTHING BEFORE MEMORY BEFORE PAIN AND YET ALL THOUGHT IS STILL RETAINED WHERE NO PLACE SURROUNDS THE BODY AND WITH NO FRAGILE VITALITY WITHIN WITH NO NEED TO BE ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE SKIN
4.
Breach 03:59
BREACH STOLEN AWAY BEFORE MY EYES CAN ABSORB IT THE GROUND DISAPPEARS THE FALL HAS BEGUN YOU CANNOT STOP THE RINGING BENEATH YOUR HIDE YOU CANNOT RUN FROM AN ENDLESSLY SCREAMING MIND THE MEMBRANE HAS RUPTURED SEEPING THICKENING AGONY THE MIND IS ROARING LOUD WITH WHAT NO ONE ELSE CAN HEAR AND IT ALL COMES POURING OUT ALL IS WHAT YOU FEAR THE MIND IS WHIRLING ROUND WITH WHAT NO ONE CAN REPEL AND IT ALL COMES SPILLING OUT UNTIL NOTHING CAN BE FELT NOTHING CAN BE FELT WHERE IS MY CONTROL?
5.
Totality 09:39
TOTALITY CRAWLING FROM THE CHOKING GROUND SENTIENCE TRAPPED IN STONE RISES GROWN WITHIN THE GROUND WE STAND BLINDLY FEEDING OFF THE LAND WE ARE ROOTED DEEP WITHIN A NEW REALITY BURNING LIGHT IS QUICK TO FADE FOR OUR WORLD HAS BEEN UNMADE THERE IS NOWHERE LEFT TO GROW OUTSIDE OF OUR DREAMS WRITHING AGAINST A NAMELESS FORCE SINKING FURTHER AWAY FROM LIGHT THE SHAPES OF OUR WORLDS HAVE CHANGED FAR BEYOND OUR CONTROL OUR PURPOSE OUR SUBSTANCE OUR EXISTENCE HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM US GROWN WITHIN THE GROUND WE STAND IN A LONG DEFEATED LAND WE ARE ROOTED DEEP WITHIN A VILE CALAMITY BURNING LIGHT HAS GONE AWAY OUR BODIES HAVE BEEN BETRAYED THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO KNOW OUTSIDE OF OUR PRISONOUS SLUMBER
6.
Odium 06:30
ODIUM I FEEL THE ODIUM THAT SURROUNDS ME I AM THE ENEMY OF ALL I MAKE THE WORD SPIN ALL AROUND YOU JUST BY WHAT SLIDES OFF MY TONGUE I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT SURROUNDS YOU I'VE TAKEN EVERYTHING AND MORE I AM THE OCEAN THAT WILL DROWN YOU I AM THE STORM I AM CORRUPTION AT IT'S CORE THE TIME HAS COME TO SHED MY SKIN MY TRUE COLORS ARE SINKING IN INSECT IN MY COCOON YOU'VE YET TO KNOW THE MEANING OF DOOM AS I EXPEL MY DISGUISE FUTILITY SPILLS FROM YOUR EYES COMPASSION IS A VIRUS AND I AM THE CURE I AM DESIGNED TO CONSUME YOUR MIND AND ASSUME YOUR BODY AS MINE I WAS FORMED LIKE NO OTHER INFECTED BY NO CONSCIENCE DEVOID OF ALL MERCY AND BORN OF NO MOTHER
7.
Anastomosis 02:00
8.
Lysis 05:19
LYSIS STARING IN THE FACE OF ANIMOSITY DISARRAY BEFALLING HOW MUCH CAN ONE GIVE BEFORE DISAPPEARING ALTOGETHER? A STINGING URGENCY TO ERUPT IS GROWING WILDLY TEARING ME FROM INSTINCT IS THE GRASP OF THE NEED TO EVADE LEST I AM FOREVER TO BECOME ONE WITH THIS REFLECTION IT IS CLEAR THAT I'VE BEEN FEEDING FROM THIS POISON GLAND FOR FAR TOO LONG IMAGES OF THE PAST ARE BLEEDING OVER ME THEY WILL NOT LET ME FORGET THE WRETCHED HISTORY OF MY CREATION AND SO IT HAPPENS ONCE AGAIN I AM SINKING HEAVILY BACK TO THE PLACE FROM WHENCE I CAME THERE IS NO QUESTION THIS IS NEVER-ENDING THIS IS PART OF ME I’LL NEVER BE RID OF IT NEVER BE RID OF IT HOW MUCH OF ONE CAN BE GIVEN BEFORE ALL THAT THEY ARE DISAPPEARS?
9.
THE LAST RESISTANCE LONG IT HAS BEEN FORGOTTEN WHILE DEEPLY IMMERSED IN RUIN THAT THERE STILL LIES A REASON THAT THERE IS STILL SO MUCH TO BELIEVE IN FOR ALWAYS I'VE TRIED TO TURN AWAY FROM THE ONLY PLACE I'VE KNOWN NOW I CAN SEE THERE IS SOMEWHERE I CAN BELONG SOMEWHERE THAT WILL NOT EVER FEEL WRONG BENEATH THIS SKY IS WHERE WE SHALL REMAIN FROM WHERE WE HAVE THRIVED IS WHERE WE SHALL DECAY I HAVE TAKEN ALL I AM NOT TO RUN AWAY SOMEWHERE INSIDE I'VE SEEN THIS ALL BEFORE I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THIS IS WORTH SAVING SOMEHOW I KNOW I JUST HAVE TO TRY OUR VIGOR WAS UNAVAILING BUT THIS WILL NOT BE WHAT DRIVES US AWAY NOT AS LONG AS WE CAN WITNESS A SIGN OF HOPE FLICKERING IN THE DARK I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING LEFT WORTH DYING FOR AWAKEN, RAGE, AND DIE AS NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT WE ARE TAKE THE LAND AND SKY NOTHING CAN TAKE US NO ONE WILL TRY AWAKEN, RAGE, AND DIE WITH NOTHING MORE THAN WHAT WE LOVE TAKE THE LAND AND SKY NOTHING CAN TAKE US NOTHING CAN TAKE US NO ONE WILL TAKE US
10.
Sunderance 05:39
SUNDERANCE TIME HAS GONE WITHOUT US NOTHING IS THE SAME ONLY EVER FLEETING MEMORIES REMAIN ALL IS FAR BEHIND US AND SO WE LOOK BACK TO A TIME WHEN WE ARE NOT ALONE

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Dissona's follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2012 release. Paleopneumatic is the culmination of years of agonizing, hard work and consequently our most fully realized production to date.

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released January 15, 2016

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Dissona Chicago, Illinois

Dissona is a progressive metal band from Chicago, USA. They have spent much of their time carefully carving out their desired sound by writing songs that embody various styles and emotions.

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