Dissension Particles

Dissension arose through the mutual love of metal music between two Chicago musicians back in 1998 but ended as an epilogue of insanity and the human condition. The enormous weight and emotionality of the material made production a difficult task, taking over seven years to compile, and actually never reaching full completion. Today this recording and other strands are the the only existing documentation of this unique and innovative brand of music, documenting a real journey from sanity to insanity, and back to something else. The album can be described as a modern crunch groove mixed in with episodes of transparent clean guitar parts, and jazz inspired drumming. Similarly, the vocals transform back in forth between soft vocal tones and abrasive melodic screams. Together, they comprise an album that meanders in and out of chaotic and psychedelic episodes. This album will look back at you as much as you look in it. It is a true concept album with a message that becomes more relevant as it ages. The self titled album is a prophecy and a wild ride in to the rabbit hole of our existence. This album is for anyone that wants to venture to other planes of reality, and is not scared that they may not come back the same. Article 1: Dissension is the opposition of magnetized parts, the combination of which generates a whole. Positive and negative charges exert force upon the other, creating a balance, and thus constructing a physical and existential space. The collective movement of these opposing parts subjugates this balance to variance, the encroachment of one part equal to the retreat of another. Unequal variance offsets stability and creates motion, one side chasing after the other, creating a stable orbit or existence. This movement pattern inevitably expands the differences between the parts, and the balance becomes more volatile, intensifying the speed of the spin beyond containment. As structural boundaries break down, the true authenticity of its essence shines through, erupting in total combustion. The magnetic parts explode from one war to the next, each step representing an evolution of the progression. Article 2: Nature speaks in familiar terms, every structure the son and daughter of atom, the DNA of existence. Underlying genes permeate every earthly element and every living cell, thus passing down the fundamental properties. Earth exists as the atom, through a balance of positive and negative energy, moved through the wind, and colliding in an orbit. The land, air, and seas exist in harmony, through violent crashing and dividing of their parts. All things move along with the wind, dancing to the beat dissension. Article 3: We humans, each composed of a unique collection of atoms, retain the essential components of our parts. We are the ocean, the land, and the air, dancing in concert to the pulse, crashing and dividing from each other, both when we create life and end it. It is our plight and our existence, each of us a soldier in battle within us, and with what is. Article 4: In the silence, you can hear the war; the sound of reality dividing in a million pieces and crashing in to the machine-our thoughts. Our personal reality is based on the information embraced through our senses and understood through our intellect. We intercept information from what is, and we assign it to categories of discernment. We understand what is by what is not, constructing our world on the basis of contradiction, and knowing the world only through these lenses. Our thoughts and are sanity are of dissension, and we demonstrate it’s likeness through our gods, government, and creations. Article 5: The sum total of every perception determines what reality is. Consequently, it is unobtainable. Each individual only gets a part, limited by the direction and capacity of their senses and understanding, but with the false assumption that he or she can extend beyond that. It is the false assumption that we can know the nature of something. We create a false state of knowing in order to transform the overwhelming stimuli we receive from the world in to organized patterns of right and wrong. Knowing is the way we cope with life and death. This phenomenological world is based on our subjective experience, the combination of our perceptions and our intellect, built on one another, and expanded to judge all things. Both the fragmentation of reality and the necessity of knowing serve as the basis for the war within our species. It is a charge that incites us to violence, killing in the name of our attachment to what we perceive as right and wrong in reality. Article 6: Our Love is our Hatred, and our Hatred our Love. Our pain our pleasure, and our pleasure our pain. Each emotion and feeling of human existence depends on the opposite emotion or feeling, in order to exist, for happiness without sadness is nothingness. What is one without the other, except an unblemished canvass? The structure of our emotions emits our nature, and represents the dualistic nature of our emotional being. When the balance is offset, and an emotion becomes saturated in us, the separateness becomes indistinguishable. Human feelings reveal how we experience our world through dissension. Article 7:We are all in motion; turning in a cycle, which itself is turning. Mankind will live out its destiny, each day writing the end of days through evolving progressions of existence, each increasing in momentum. Mankind will war, because mankind is a war, in every cell of being. Humanity will serve its end, existing until it inevitably reaches the prophecy of its contents; non-existence. It is what we are made of. Article 8: Die this game of dissension, but unto what option. To live is to war, but to die is to submit. We may only change our destiny by shedding the human charge. the charge by standing in the eye of dissension. Our freedom is living in spite of life, in spite of dissension, rising above what we were born to be and rather choosing to reunite with what is. Only in that light can we can see our true reflection and begin to choose what we want to be. We can live free through our detachment from attachments. We can understand differently by keeping reality whole, holding multiple truths simultaneously and maintaining a capacity to receive more. We live anew by not knowing, thus rejecting the charge of knowing. We can better live our life if we recognize our continuous death and let go our false security. We can feel differently by being here and now, taking it in, without bias or expectations. We can only be something else, if we embrace what is and let go of what we are.