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Costly Signals

by Dyssidia

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VenoMal1c3 Favorite track, you're kidding, right? I can't pick a fave when every goddamn tune is stronger in some way or another than the one before it. 1st lemme say I'm a fan of Liam's other bands & I LOVE Freedom Of Fear.
Now, about those vocals: God. DAMN! Mitch is sick! I texted my wife about this so she could listen on Spotify & she was impressed. Vocals are outstanding & never boring.
The only weak point is the final 3 1/4 mins of the last song. It just has an overall generic & derivative feel. Favorite track: Hope's Remorseful Retreat.
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Adrián Ponce Amazing prog metal album, with so many vocal performance sensitivities and exquisite guitars, bass, drums and keyboards performances. Favorite track: Arrival.
Mikey.
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Mikey. A brilliant mix of styles, and an album that pulls you in and keeps your mind glued to each song. The production is great, meaning that the drums, aside the other instruments, aren't compressed every way until Sunday, meaning that they can sing freely and resonate. Costly Signals is ten songs of pure brilliance and imagination. Buy it! Favorite track: Infinitesimal.
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1.
Thrive 06:19
Tracing thin threads through stems, the botanist affixes fine stipules. Forming through thick terra tough, you should have listened we are on the precipice. One side forever wilted. The other never dead! Ambrosial elements caged in forceful arrogance, ignorant wisteria the lesser of two. Forget me not inflorescent, forget me not incandescent. To bruise the petals and see a dream where all the colours fade into me, you must find for yourself what this all represents before it’s life swiftly withers. One and only hundreds more, you have to hold your tongue, confusing all the others, when the truth is there is one. Narcissus glutted with rays from the sun, blind to its foundation, its roots are strangling spit out the pith! An unfortunate event, for the soul that holds this nourishment. Anther sweet like wine every wish becomes desire, A chain of pale jade hanging around your neck. I do not know of tears for where I live sorrow cannot enter. Forget me not omnipresent, forget me not horizonless. Surveyor of the skies, voyeur of its radius. Explain to me the reason why, I feel as I'm indebted.
2.
The Gutted Stag still walks, he has lost all he had inside. Staggering through the forest, his gallant nature hard to hide. What sweet traveller will bless this beast with tenderness? Tend to its wounds, sewing up its skin. Watch where you tread, all this metaphor you will shed, Now there's nothing more for you to dread, so much to endure within. Don't put that poor beast on a pedestal, he may stumble. It’s such a long and lonely fall from a place that high, Each thoughtful traverse is a step more further from the life it couldn't live. Every endeavour panic and purpose in hostile flight, Prolonging images showing through mirrors on the tension of the water's surface. What sweet traveller will bless this beast with tenderness? Tend to its wounds, sewing up its skin. Watch where you tread, all this metaphor you will shed, Now there's nothing more for you to dread, so much to endure. Withering silhouette, the trees they slowly wept, The graceful creature slept and dreamed peacefully of death. Withering silhouette, the trees they slowly wept, The graceful creature slept and dreamed peacefully of death.
3.
Focus on the feeling, pin point precision, soothing tender nerves create an ultimate division. An esoteric form of information feeding into your inner circle, When you think you are worthless, redefine what's truly worth your need to breathe and function. And to find a meaning in limitation, towards a sight of deviation, We are cages and these cages don't even know what they've been made to hold. Contemplation is the reason for our being, confirmation in fractal sight. Colours effervescent too bright, inching closer and closer towards the other side. We're all trapped in this spike of light, Together we could be the force that makes everything stand still. We are infinitesimal! Vast and unseen by our eyes, without reason, telling putrid lies. Focus on the feeling, pinpoint precision, soothing tender nerves create an ultimate division. Paradoxical space grows with every moment, are you a passenger? Or will you change this course? Persuasive and perfectly placed genuine reality. We're all trapped in this spike of light, Together we could be the force that makes everything stand still. We are infinitesimal! Vast and unseen by our eyes, without reason, telling putrid lies. Concentric golden covered shapes that tile the space that I walk. Congested dreams that I reach for, when you refuse to talk.
4.
Bloodrush 06:26
Observations swirling out of any control. Void and space seemingly leave all aspects of self aside. Quickly hide this side of yourself from gleaming envious eyes. There is hope bound to the centre of my chest. It may be foolish. My heart needs rest. Reciprocity against an apparition’s faulty word. Look at it, the shape absurd. Sceptic situations circle around you closing in. A tantalizing thought would leave most captured by a radiated sin. Smash the atoms against my skin. The edge of chaos. The edge of a whim. Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as a measure of worth. Insulted? Of course you are. Are you righteous? Are you deserving? Are you blameless? Without fault. Righteous, deserving. Rotting, yet providing. An exemplary display of your own fault. Negligence.   What is this sound I am hearing in my head? How long can I keep these words unsaid. Generosity, senses struggling to reassume. The constant flow that made you. Hiding from the shining light. Encapsulated by sight. Terrifying poison vines. Thriving towards the centre of the earth. The edge of your own free thought. What comes after this? Who will fix your full and tired eyes? Who will fix the constance in your lies? Let your sensibilities guide you softly It’s a special kind of feeling, That I will never understand. It’s here, And yet I feel myself not feeling anything at all. What a remarkable phenomenon, why are you taking this to heart? I will wait with you one night longer. I will wait with you for one night longer With the wind at your back. You shall travel home.
5.
Arrival 06:02
Still, extremely so, the edges that confine slice through, Restraints that once bound you and as you dissolve into nothingness. The universe will greet you, a face that is bursting with intense proclivity, 

This is concerning, the human experience. Here. Now. Please. It is the time for you to see your scorn and what it does to others. Junctions of fondness obliterated. What is it you're asking for? Overgrown. Time is something you cannot defeat. Is that so? Don't spend your breath trying to conquer it. I will bestow to you my greatest gift. Nothing left for you to change, there’s no one here to take the blame, Nothing but the spoiled shame of all the things you seldom crave. Nothing left for you to change, there’s no one here to take the blame, Nothing but the spoiled shame of all the things you seldom crave. The universe will greet you, a face that is bursting with intense proclivity. This is concerning, the human experience. Overgrown. Time is something you cannot defeat. Is that so? Don't spend your breath trying to conquer it. Chasing each part, each fitting your individual needs, no better than those who stood before you. How many times must you spoil yourself, before you understand it’s wrong! Moments pass, bloating quickly, images will never last. I will bestow to you my greatest gift. Soon you will know.
6.
For your future’s sake, Here's some advice I'd advise you to take. Take a moment to think about how the seeds you have planted will sprout.
7.
Breathe deep, consume, release. Vastness in belief, your morals they leave. You snake, serpentine. Get back, dodge and weave. Strike, strike, strike! Bite the hand that feeds. Bite the hand, malevolent selfish greed. The burden of proof unfolds itself unto you. Accolades fall away, dripping in the water you've tainted with rage. Dragged into waste absorbed, you will not leave this place unscathed. Held tightly as you stand, does this distance make you mad? A cloud of terrifying thoughts spawns complex metamorphosis.
8.
Good Grief 10:39
What will fill the hole that’s left? Through endless bouts of aversion. Empty spaces now gliding on the surface of my mind and i know, That it is time to occupy this intricate purpose. He was helpless. He was alone. And his heart had turned into stone. Unfortunately optimism doesn’t pay you fortune and peace. It makes you weak. Unfortunately optimism doesn’t pay you fortune and peace. It makes you fucking weak. And i will give this all of my might. And fight with nothing but pure spite. Being without reason. Apologetic sense of utmost treason. Those pillars that hold up all. In your mind are convulsing. Plummet into the afterlife, through tremors, crawl. Can you feel the earth move? Can you feel the earth shake? Can you feel the moving? Can you feel the earth shaking? Can you feel the earth moving? Can you feel the earth shaking? Can you feel the earth moving? Can you feel the earth shake? And i will give this all of my might. And fight with nothing but pure spite. Being without meaning. Don’t sabotage yourself, you're truly worth it. Those pillars that hold up all in your mind. Are convulsing. Plummet into the afterlife. Through tremors, crawl. With all the anger turned to honey from nostalgia. A sharpened view. Cutting the finest of sceneries. Run towards the edge. And throw yourself into the undefined. You are almost there with much at stake. But now the ground begins to shake. Fracture convulsing. This world will swallow all. You are almost there with much at stake. But now the ground begins to shake. Convulsing, this dying malice. Earth will swallow us all. Frail foundations falling. Do you hear my voice calling? To you from the past. Will you remember me? Can you see me in the centre of your mind? Is this picture crystal clear? Is it brimming full of fear? Hang those worries from the firmament. Can you feel the earth move? Can you feel the earth shake? Can you feel the earth move? Can you feel the earth shaking? Can you feel?
9.
What have you lost young one? How can I help you find what you are missing? Is it something that can even be found? Or is your daydreaming creating an obsequious cloud? Your sun and your stars as you claim me to be, I'm so lucky to be in your orbit. A gruesome punishment in idle insolence, Remember what you have now, was something you once hoped for. Inspiration in the light of consisted contempt, After you wake, you will feel the weight. Hope is at the heart of all attachment, although attachment leads to so much more. It eases itself over opaque time, We believe you have the strength to bear your own rumination. A gruesome punishment in idle insolence, Remember what you have now was something you once hoped for. Inspiration in the light of consisted contempt after you wake you will feel the weight. All hope retreats. Remorsefully, undoubtedly, sadly. Hope’s remorseful retreat.
10.
Tender to the touch. I knew you would say as much. It’s a simple kind of rush. Now hush. There must be Influence over the outcome, Vicious visuals swirling through your head. And For the longest time you’ve needed consequence, To keep you from an obvious conclusion. Every bit of you feels your beating heart, Streams of dark royal red flood through you, Times as such are so far gone. Countless. You must twist and taught, Until it is disconnected. Pointless. And tender to the touch. There must be influence over the outcome, Vicious visuals swirling through your head. And for the longest time you’ve needed something more, Invading thoughts of trepidation. Questionable actions made years ago, reactions that took me off guard. Shifting between logical endings, changing seconds into a bloated millennia. With each movement my words become more true, Let that set in and let your contemptuousness splay fully. Life can fall in and out of place, another name without a face. Think it through, what secrets are you holding? Speak truth. It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. You must not forget that you will be responsible for what you have tamed. Persistence you have chosen rightly for once, for the eyes cannot see what the body truly feels. What a disturbing strange, strange thing to be drawn so deeply.

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released March 27, 2020

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Dyssidia Adelaide, Australia

Part of the rising cohort of world-class Australian progressive metal, Dyssidia have crafted a unique sound amongst their peers, combining bone-crushing riffs with rich harmonies, soaring vocal melodies with brutal growls and breathtaking soundscapes with intricate rhythms.

Following 3 EPs, Dyssidia released their epic hour-long full length album in March 2020. Next album due in early 2024.
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