After more than three decades, Swiss pioneering technical metallers Coroner will return with a new studio album, Dissonance Theory, which will be released worldwide on October 17, 2025, via Century Media Records. Today, they have unleashed a pummeling new single, “Symmetry,” along with a music video, which can be seen below.
Coroner’s guitarist, songwriter, and producer Tommy Vetterli comments: “This track is about vanity, ego, and how self-obsession can be destructive. That idea shaped the way we played it, too. ‘Symmetry’ gave us room to explore, and with the rhythmic dimension Diego [Rapacchietti – Drums] brings, it pushed us further than we’ve gone before.”
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Coroner‘s guitarist, songwriter, and producer Tommy Vetterli (a.k.a. Tommy T. Baron) 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/mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Kreator, Amon Amarth) in Sweden. The album’s cover artwork (see below) was created by Stefan Thanneur.
Dissonance Theory will be available as a limited 2CD mediabook (with expanded booklet and the legendary “Death Cult” four-track demo from 1986, featuring Tom G. Warrior [Triptykon, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer] on vocals, as a bonus CD), standard CD jewelcase, digital album, and LP.
