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Dissolution

"We’re going to play fast music, and it’s going to be loud," says gut-growlin’ lead vocalist/guitarist Dennis Mott about the next gig featuring his fiery death metal band, Dissolution.
   
"Fast, heavy, loud and brutal," affirms bassist/background vocalist/lyricist Matt Stanicky (ex-Deadfall, Rising).
   
Dissolution has been crushing Winnipeg metal heads since its live debut in 2004 with its underground brand of undiluted death — a complex mix of melodic metal, power metal and overseas-spun, speed-induced ear clobber.
   
"It’s a lot of Carcass, old-school Swedish melodic death metal. I’ve seen us on those Russian download sites listed as brutal melodic death metal," says Mott (ex-Deadfall, Putrescence, Postmortem Panty Raiders), who began Dissolution in late 2003 with founding member/guitarist Ryan Forsyth (Kaluza, ex-PPR).
   
"We started jamming after a Deadfall show," Mott says.
   
Add powerful drummer Scott Patterson (In 2 Months, ex-PPR) to the death metal mix, and the four-member, death-metal insanity of Dissolution was solidifried. Check out the band’s pair of self-released albums — Dying Dead Undead and the recently released Dirt Skies (with killer artwork by Nyco Rudolph) to hear and see what I mean.
   
"I would say we sound like brutal, melodic death metal with some power metal thrown in," Stanicky says. U brutallic/metallic-bent street beaters can check all this wholesome metal goodness by hitting dissolutionca.bandcamp.com or Facebook.
   
"We have both of our albums available there on bandcamp — and we’ll have hard copies at the show, and shirts with artwork by Nyco, too," Stanicky says.
   
See Dissolution unleash the true spirit of death metal when it headlines a gig at The Zoo on Dec. 3 with Eyam, C@nt Punisher, Hell & Malfunction and Kaluza, featuring Ryan Forsyth and Putrescence member Jean-Louis Wittinger — aka guitarist Grimmgore (ex-Lykeum/Legerdemain/Dissolution/Fuck the Facts) — Mike from Psychotic Gardening/Eyam and Ben from CP/Mortalis.
   
"We’re only going to be playing songs from Dirt Skies," Stanicky says about the upcoming Dissolution set list. Both Stanicky and Mott say U street beaters can expect to hear Bloodlust, Years of Pain and Undead Cybernetic Life when you check in at The Zoo.
   
"We really push ourselves," Stanicky says when I ask him what sets Dissolution apart from the Manitoba metal pack. "Ryan said it one time — the idea of Dissolution is to write songs that are challenging. We are constantly improving."
   
"Matt will write lyrics when we are songwriting," Mott says. "Then I’ll play around with the rhythm and the timing of it."
   
Both Mott and Stanicky agree that being a member of Dissolution is being part of a true collaborative experience, and it’s something they take very seriously.
   
"We’re all open to each other’s suggestions," Stanicky says. "When I first joined Dissolution, Ryan told me, ‘suggestions are welcome’ and he meant it.
   
"Our music may sound really serious," he continues, "but it’s fun."
   
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