West Michigan’s Dissonant holds itself to the highest standards of performance and songwriting excellence. Their painstaking self scrutiny has created one of the tightest unsigned metal groups in years, and a groundbreaking full length debut called “Copy Burn Distribute Repeat”.  Not only are their songs refreshingly original, but they back it up with an ingenious marketing campaign.  Their record is 100% FREE!  Anyone and everyone can get a copy of “Copy Burn Distribute Repeat” by visiting their myspace page or dforfree.com and downloading it as high quality mp3.   Ala the Radiohead or NIN business models, Dissonant are using this technique to develop a new grassroots fan base by empowering them with free merchandise.  All they ask in return is that you help spread their gospel across the world by doing what the title says and copy, burn, distribute, repeat! 

Past members of the D have included ranks from both Still Remains and the Showdown, and now feature drummer Josh Moore formerly of veteran death metal group Summon.  Rounded out by the Songwriting of Ben Allen, the vocal attack of Jake Farran, the thunderous bass of Dan Cox, and the shred ability of Ryan O’Neill, Dissonant are easily the best heavy metal musicians in West Michigan.   Their sound is intense, raw, and unrelenting.  At the same time they utilize tasteful melody on nearly every song, and maintain cohesive song structure and flow.  “It’s loud and Aggressive, and its complexity should be appreciated. Almost like the contamination of prog.” (Recoil mag 4/08).