Artist: Whitechapel
Title:  Hymns In Dissonance
Label: Metal Blade Records
Cat #: MB161252
Release Year: 2025
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak

Metal Blade Records is the ninth full-length studio album from the American deathcore band Whitechapel.

Hymns in Dissonance, indeed: "No holds barred, there is nothing nice about HID, from the riffs to the lyrics to the overall vibe of the album," says guitarist Alex Wade. "We tried to write our heaviest album yet. We wanted to put out something that was shockingly menacing and brutal". "The album follows the story of a cult leader who is gathering worthy people to join his cult," continues Wade, "and there are moments in the story where the cult followers sing an evil hymn to open a portal for the cult leader to enter.

The band's dynamic, brutal musicality serves as a soundtrack to the compelling lyrical story, vividly imagined by vocalist Phil Bozeman. "Hymns in Dissonance is a mockery of the true nature of what hymns are," explains Bozeman. "Hymns are melodious and harmonious. Dissonance is the opposite of melody and harmony. Dissonance represents evil. The tracks on the record are the hymns, representing the seven deadly sins, from track 3 to track 10. Tracks one and two are the introduction.

Whitechapel is the district of London where Jack the Ripper committed the murder of at least five prostitutes in the late 1880s.

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Track Listing:
1. Prisoner 666
2. Hymns in Dissonance
3. Diabolic Slumber
4. A Visceral Retch
5. Ex Infernis
6. Hate Cult Ritual
7. The Abysmal Gospel
8. Bedlam
9. Mammoth God
10. Nothing is Coming for Any of Us