Tag: Dissona
Best of 2025: Chris C – Finding Renewal In A Cyclical Escapism
As cyclical as it is — the experience of being a listener of heavy metal — it is exciting, truly, how every new year brings a surprise or two or three. And it doesn’t have …
Best of 2025: Seth Buttnam – All Bosses Rando No Hit Speedrun
Is this the final album I’m ever going to listen to? That has been on my mind a lot this year. Eventually, whether it be tomorrow or years from now, there will be a final …
Best of 2025: Lone Watie – Hey There. Look At These Nice Rocks.
Like most people, I keep lots of things around the house that mean something to me and nothing to anyone else at all. I hold on to these things because they represent some meaningful time …
Best Of 2025: Spencer Hotz – Slowly Smoothing Brain Syndrome
Dearest Reader(s?), I firmly believe the noodle soup in the can called my skull is starting to go bad. More than likely, you will agree with that sentiment when you finish reading this rather unhinged …
Best Of 2025: Dan Obstkrieg – Have A Wonderful Day
Ranking junk: we love it. And yes, folks, usually I’d love to whip up some fanciful theory for you about how the human propensity to rank things is evolutionarily adaptive instead of decadent, but there …
Best Of 2025 – Zach Duvall: The Never-Ending Goldrush
Hello and welcome back to the heart of another List Season. Tired yet of seeing these things peppered all over the internet? Of course you aren’t! So below I present my top albums of the …
Best Of 2025 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25
LET’S GET READY TO FUMBLLLLLLE!! Did we fumble? Sure, there’s about as much stylistic distance between our top two albums as possible, but that’s hardly a fumble. Last Rites has always been a little scattershot …
Dissona – Receptor Review
[Cover artwork by David Dubenic] It’s tempting to call Dissona a passion project. Based in and around Chicago, they’ve been making progressive metal for more than 15 years, outlasting the tides of misfortune and disappointment, …