Album Review: Dyscordia - 4th full album entitled " The Road To Oblivion", release on April 17, 2024 // All Time Metal \\

Belgian Dyscordia release their 4th full length album "The Road To Oblivion" on April 17th 2024

Band: Dyscordia

Country: Belgium

Album: The Road To Oblivion

Genre: Melodic Progressive Metal

Label: Independent Release

Format: Digital CD / Physical CD / Vinyl

Mixing and mastering by Yarne Heylen (Project Zero Recording studio – Carnation)

Tracklist:

01. The Passenger
02. Hell
03. Oblivion
04. Interlude
05. Endgame
06. Toxic Rain
07. The Demons Bite
08. Infinite Fantasy

Album Review:

4th album for music veterans Dyscordia, consisting of 8 tracks of melodic progressive power metal with many gothic and death elements and a psychedelic flavor.

8 complex and well-crafted compositions with each one having its own particularity and its own details. Amazing guitar riffs and solos, intense and complex drums, the bass to have a connecting identity in the whole composition, the synth to give each track different touches in a range from gothic, melodic to orchestral, the incredible combination of lyrical and death vocals with vicious backing vocals, in "The Passenger" and "Toxic Rain" the use of sound effects that add a cinematic profile to them and at the end of "Infinite Fantasy" melodic whistling in combination with rhythmic guitar reminiscent of Far West music.

The album's fourth track "Interlude" is an instrumental variation of the wonderful "The Passenger" that could be used in a psychedelic action movie.

As a whole it is a musically diverse album and particularly interesting in terms of the successful combination of different genres of metal music.

It sure won't leave any metal lover unmoved.

Excellent! 9/10

Watch on Youtube the official video clip of "Hell"

Watch on Youtube the animated music video of "The Passenger"

Line-up

Piet Overstijns - Vocals

Stefan Segers - Vocals & Guitars

Martijn Debonnet - Guitars & Backings

Guy Commeene - Lead guitars

Wouter Nottebaert - Bass & Backings

Chevy Mahieu - Drums

Short bio

Dyscordia is a melodic metalband from Belgium. The band consists of long-time metal veterans who were the driving force behind bands like Gwyllion, Double Diamond, Artrach, Anesthesy, Impedigon and Rhymes of Destruction.

Their first EP, "Reveries", was released in the fall of 2010 and - together with their strong live reputation - earned them support slots for bands like Primal Fear, ReVamp, Ensiferum, Alestorm and At Vance.

With the production of their first full-length album, "Twin Symbiosis" (March 2013), the band established a strong working relationship with producer Jens Bogren (Opeth, Paradise Lost, Katatonia,…) and mastering engineer Tony Lindgren at the Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.

The album was followed by a lot of extremely positive reviews and resulted in the band playing more and bigger stages. Shortly after the release, Dyscordia were very well received at PPM Fest, Dokk'em Open Air and Graspop Metal Meeting.

In 2015, the second full-length "Words in Ruin" was recorded with the same team that was responsible for the sound of "Twin Symbiosis". The album was released in 2016 and the release show for the album quickly sold out. Strong performances at numerous festivals, including Alcatraz Metal Fest, followed. The band was also noticed on several international performances, including Summerbreeze Open Air in 2016.

In 2019, the band teamed up with Jens Bogren and Tony Lindgren once again to produce their third album. "Delete / Rewrite" combines everything that made the previous albums shine, but also takes the band to new horizons, resulting in their strongest work yet. In the words of Jens Bogren, it sounds ‘heavy as fuck’. A support slot for the Doro 2020 European Tour was secured.

When Covid continued, these plans had to be cancelled. As another consequence of this difficult period, founding member and drummer Wouter Debonnet quit and was replaced by Chevy Mahieu in the latter days of 2022. The band had to look for another rehearsal room and eventually returned to their hometown Kortrijk. During 2023, the band took the time to get Chevy worked in. Quickly this resulted in the creation of new material. A new clip "Hell" was released on the 24th of March 2023, and the second new animated music video "The Passenger" released on the 1st of April 2024, the fourth album "The Road To Oblivion" is now going to be released on April 17, 2024.

Discography

2010 – Reveries

2013 – Twin Symbiosis

2016 – Words in Ruin

2020 – Delete / Rewrite