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| Released | 17 October 2025 | |||
| Recorded | 2022–2025 | |||
| Length | 47:20 | |||
| Label | Century Media | |||
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Dissonance Theory is the upcoming sixth studio album by the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, due for release on 17 October 2025, through Century Media Records. [1] It will be the band's first studio album since Grin (1993), and their first release with drummer Diego Rappachietti, who replaced original drummer Marky Edelmann in 2014.
After disbanding in 1996, Coroner announced in 2010 that they were reuniting for a series of festival appearances, including the following year's installments of Maryland Deathfest, [2] Hellfest, [3] and Bloodstock Open Air. [4] Although guitarist Tommy Vetterli had stated that new music from Coroner was a possibility, he claimed both vocalist and bassist Ron Broder and drummer Marky Edelmann had no interest in making a new album. [5] [6] On 12 February 2014, Edelmann announced that he would be leaving the band at the end of the month, citing a disinterest in new material, as opposed to Broder and Vetterli; [7] he was replaced three months later by Diego Rapacchietti. [8]
In a June 2014 interview with Andrew Haug, Vetterli spoke about the possibility of a new album, saying, "I can't say when [a new studio album might arrive]. It's just what we want. But everybody's very busy, you know — me producing bands in the studio all the time... If we do something, it has to be very good." [9] In the following year, Broder stated that the band had individually been in the process of collecting songwriting ideas and was hopeful that they would enter the studio in 2016 to begin recording a sixth studio album. [10]
Progress on a sixth studio album from Coroner had been slow for years, due to the band members taking their time on writing and recording new material without having to rush it. On 26 July 2016, the band announced that they had entered studio to begin recording their new album, which was initially set for release in 2017; [11] however, the album never arrived in 2017 and there had been no news about the album until April 2020, when Coroner announced via Twitter that they were "going to record a NEW album this year." [12] In a May 2021 interview with Agoraphobic News, Edelmann (who has remained in contact with his former bandmates since leaving Coroner) stated that the band was planning to "finally go to the studio this fall" to work on their new album. [13] In a May 2022 interview with 69 Faces of Rock, Vetterli said, "We've actually started the recording, we have started recording drums, six songs are recorded and two more songs are ready, but Ron's part is missing and then we have to write another one, and then we hit the studio and record it." [14]
Coroner released their first song in more than three decades, "Renewal", on 15 August 2025 and announced on the same day that their sixth studio album Dissonance Theory will be released on October 17. [1]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Oxymoron" | 0:59 |
| 2. | "Consequence" | 6:15 |
| 3. | "Sacrificial Lamb" | 6:03 |
| 4. | "Cirsium Bound" | 5:30 |
| 5. | "Symmetry" | 3:58 |
| 6. | "The Law" | 5:01 |
| 7. | "Transparent Eye" | 5:16 |
| 8. | "Trinity" | 5:42 |
| 9. | "Renewal" | 5:22 |
| 10. | "Prolonging" | 3:14 |
| Total length: | 47:20 | |