![]() "It's always great to be able to release a legacy release like the Ion Dissonance's debut LP, being that it was a formative band for me," Hawemann notes. And Hawemann keeps defining that sound by mining the past and present for gems. A couple of years in, TDW's name can even stand in for a certain sound, a burgeoning substyle that ties together the commonalities of the label's discography. ![]() Since starting as a way for Hawemann to release his own music, such as the genuinely excellent Nightmarer, 1 TDW has expanded into a one-stop shop for those who like it oppressive and really dark. Hawemann's Total Dissonance Worship feels especially well-curated because it states that niche up front with its name. ![]() "But it is curated to a specific niche within extreme metal, namely the kind of stuff that obviously leans more into a dissonant direction or sounds oppressive and really dark in other ways." ![]() "It's really just a 'do I like it or not' kind of question first and foremost," label head Simon Hawemann writes in an email. While dissonance is the name of the game, there's no dissonance behind Total Dissonance Worship's game plan for choosing what to release. ![]()
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