08/17/2025 08:43

Coroner

Coroner return with new album 'Dissonance Theory' in October

After more than three decades, Swiss pioneering technical metallers Coroner return with a new studio album: 'Dissonance Theory' will be released on October 17th, 2025 worldwide via Century Media Records.

Track listing:
1. Oxymoron (00:58)
2. Consequence (06:15)
3. Sacrificial Lamb (06:02)
4. Crisium Bound (05:29)
5. Symmetry (03:58)
6. The Law (05:00)
7. Transparent Eye (05:16)
8. Trinity (05:41)
9. Renewal (05:21)
10. Prolonging (03:13)

Coroner's guitarist, songwriter and producer Tommy Vetterli checked in with the following comment about the band's new music:

"I thought a lot about what Coroner should sound like today, but I pretty quickly realized that looking backwards wouldn't serve us. Of course, over time you develop a certain signature as a musician. So even if the material is new, it might still feel like a bridge to earlier phases - simply because it's me writing it.

That said, we didn't set out to continue a legacy. We just wanted to create something honest and grounded in the present. 'Renewal' now opens the chapter for what became the first Coroner album I'm fully satisfied with, start to finish. So we'll let the music speak for itself - you'll know if it speaks to you."

'Dissonance Theory' contains 10 new songs across 47 minutes, recorded by Tommy Vetterli at New Sound Studios in Switzerland, and mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden (Opeth, Kreator, Amon Amarth, etc.). The album's cover artwork (to be seen above) was created by Stefan Thanneur.

The album will be available as limited 2CD mediabook (with expanded booklet and the legendary 'Death Cult' 4-track demo from 1986 - featuring Tom G. Warrior [Triptykon, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer] on vocals - as bonus CD), standard CD jewelcase, digital album and LP in the following vinyl variants:

- 180g black vinyl (unlimited)
- 180g creamy white-black marbled vinyl (ltd. to 500 copies, available from all French retailers, www.emp.de & www.cede.ch)
- 180g deep blood red (ltd. to 300 copies, available from www.cmdistro.de / Bandcamp: https://centurymediashop.bandcamp.com & from Coroner)
- translucent coke bottle clear vinyl (US retailers)

(source: Century Media Records)