{"id":383262,"date":"2026-01-02T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383262\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:56:12","slug":"bravepicks-2025-coroners-dissonance-theory-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383262\/","title":{"rendered":"BravePicks 2025 \u2013 CORONER’s Dissonance Theory #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finally made it to a New Year and we greet 2026 with our #1 for BravePicks 2025! It could only be Swiss technical thrash pioneers, Coroner, who are celebrating the release of Dissonance Theory, the first full-length offering from the band in over three decades.<\/p>\n

In his review<\/a>, Nick Balazs wrote:<\/p>\n

In the land of thrash comebacks, Coroner finally returns from the lab with their first studio album in 32 years. Dissonance Theory is a calculated and cold effort. Somebody call the doctor! Where other thrashers set out to rip your head off, Coroner strikes with surgical precision.<\/p>\n

The trio slaps on their gloves and go to work with an album that won\u2019t hit with immediacy. It\u2019s a grower with a modern production effort, technical but not over the top, and progressive with gothic undertones. It\u2019s a natural path followed on from Mental Vortex and Grin and has the feel of stepping into a steely, icy laboratory.<\/p>\n

Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stay tuned for BraveWords\u2019 writers\u2019 individual Top 20s (new studio albums ONLY), Top 5 Concerts, Top 5 Brave Embarrassments (a fan favorite!), Thoughts On 2025, What\/Who Needs To Stop In 2026? and Metal Predictions For 2026.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading BraveWords! Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

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1) CORONER \u2013 Dissonance Theory (Century Media)<\/p>\n

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Guitarist, songwriter and producer Tommy Vetterli spoke with BraveWords about the band\u2019s return and the making of the album, with Vetterli revealing that some of the song ideas making the cut for Dissonance Theory date back as much as 10 years:<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember writing the opening riff and part of the verses for the new song \u2018Renewal\u2019 in 2015,\u201d he says, \u201cbecause I wrote it when I was in Thailand on holidays. Ron (Broder \/ bass, vocals) and Diego (Rappachietti \/ drums) didn\u2019t like it too much \u2013 they said it didn\u2019t sound Coroner enough, that it sounded too much like Slayer or Metallica \u2013 so I put it on ice, but it became the last song we recorded for the new album because we were short one. I came up with a new verse, pre-chorus, chorus and the whole middle part in two hours. So, the oldest song ideas are from 2015, and from there I think I wrote some stuff every year when I took off to the mountains for a break from producing. Every time we sat together and worked on the new songs, it was a very creative situation. It was just a question of finding the time to work together. That was the biggest challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

BravePicks 2025 Top 30<\/p>\n

1) CORONER \u2013 Dissonance Theory (Century Media)
2)<\/a> TESTAMENT \u2013 Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast)
3)<\/a> SACRIFICE \u2013 Volume Six (High Roller \/ Cursed Blessings)
4)<\/a> PARADISE LOST \u2013 Ascension (Nuclear Blast)
5)<\/a> DESTRUCTION \u2013 Birth Of Malice (Napalm)
6)<\/a> AMBUSH \u2013 Evil In All Dimensions (Napalm)
7)<\/a> HELLOWEEN \u2013 Giants & Monsters (Reigning Phoenix)
8)<\/a> CENTURY \u2013 Sign Of The Storm (Electric Assault)
9)<\/a> ARCH ENEMY \u2013 Blood Dynasty (Century Media)
10)<\/a> SMITH\/KOTZEN \u2013 Black Light\/White Noise (BMG)
11)<\/a> SAVAGE MASTER \u2013 Dark & Dangerous (Shadow Kingdom)
12)<\/a> DREAM THEATER \u2013 Parasomnia (InsideOut)
13)<\/a> LAMP OF MURMUUR \u2013 The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy (Wolves Of Hades)
14)<\/a> SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL \u2013 Grizzly (Sumerian)
15)<\/a> SODOM \u2013 The Arsonist (Steamhammer)
16)<\/a> WINGS OF STEEL \u2013 Winds Of Time (High Roller)
17)<\/a> NATTVERD \u2013 Tidloes Naadesloes (Soulseller)
18)<\/a> WYTCH HAZEL \u2013 V: Lamentations (Metal Blade \/ Bad Omen)
19)<\/a> AMORPHIS \u2013 Borderland (Reigning Phoenix)
20)<\/a> PHANTOM SPELL \u2013 Heather & Hearth (Cruz Del Sur)
21)<\/a> WARMEN \u2013 Band Of Brothers (Reaper Entertainment)
22)<\/a> CALVA LOUISE \u2013 Edge Of The Abyss (Mascot)
23)<\/a> CRYPTOPSY \u2013 An Insatiable Violence (Season Of Mist)
24)<\/a> DEFTONES \u2013 Private Music (Warner \/ Reprise)
25)<\/a> BENEDICTION \u2013 Ravage Of Empires (Nuclear Blast)
26)<\/a> CONDITION CRITICAL \u2013 Degeneration Chamber (Independent)
27)<\/a> ARCHITECTS \u2013 The Sky, The Earth & All Between
28)<\/a> INHUMAN CONDITION \u2013 Mind Trap (Listenable Insanity)
29)<\/a> THE HALO EFFECT \u2013 March Of The Unheard (Nuclear Blast)
30)<\/a> LIK \u2013 Necro (Metal Blade)<\/p>\n

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