We're very excited to announce that UK mechanized black metal futurists Decoherence are about to reappear from the darkest unknown with "Order", an imposing third full-length voidscape consecrating an unrivaled auditory vision into absolute darkness and emptiness.
The cataclysmic forthcoming work has been teased by notorious underground metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who in premiering the opening song “Closed Timelike Curves” have remarked how the track “evokes a sense of vastness, of being aboard a tiny vessel in the incalculable void of space”, and how the album as a whole is a “harrowing and powerful experience“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.
Humanity's microscopic existence and total insignificance within the paradigm or our vast reality and unknown creation, soundtracked using the medium of cold, synthetic, mechanical experimental black metal to infer a future reality, aeons away, in which unknowable technological advances will bridge unfathomable sidereal distances and quell humanity's longing for knowledge by placing us right in front of the mouth of oblivion, from which any return or escape will be impossible. Decaying at the event horizon, the awareness that our maniacal quest for knowledge was solely driven by an oppressive feeling of meaninglessness and fear in the shadow of the immensity and cruelty of the empty vast cosmos, will become more crushing than the infinite gravity itself. It is the premise itself, made of absolute insignificance and inevitable annihilation which makes the music of Decoherence so completely antihuman. A scenario of absolute hell lost between science, imagination, philosophy and total fear, merging different states, flaws and aspects of the human nature and mind, meticulously crafted from the surrealism of Blut Aus Nord and Ulcerate-derived avant-garde dissonant black and death metal, the grim, sidereal vastness of Darkspace, the industrial post-human bleakness of Godflesh and Brighter Death Now, and the ambiguous, experimental futurism of transformative 80's and 90's bands like Alchemist, Ved Buens Ende, Voivod and Killing Joke.
"Order" is slated for a July 28 2023 worldwide release on LP, CD, MC and digital/streaming formats via Sentient Ruin.
Formed by Stroda (UK), in partnership with American vocalist Tahazu (vocals), and since 2019 also taking shape as a trio with Prior handling noise and electronic soundscapes, Decoherence has left mankind and this world behind to visualize instead cataclysmic and alien events of unseen magnitude and immensity, far beyond the reach and comprehension of mankind, deep into the one thing which more than anything defines mankind’s nothingness: the cosmos, eternal and immeasurable engine of creation and unimaginable destruction. Draped in dark matter and fueled by emptiness, with its immense evocative force and with visionary lucidly Decoherence have sonically bridged alien worlds and opened a portal to a vast and remore realm unknown, where existence is meticulously annihilated in perpetuity through immense cosmic cataclysmic events of creation and destruction, the magnitude of which ridicule mankind and vaporize its minuscule existence. Early in 2018 Decoherence brought these visions of annihilating cosmological immensity to fruition for the first with the release of their self-titled debut 7” EP released via Sentient Ruin - one of the label’s defining and most successful 7”releases to date. The superb quality of their debut EP and the critical acclaim which resulted paved the way for a short but incendiary burst of writing/recording which yielded a debut album of unseen ambient black metal immensity - the Ekpyrosis debut full-length LP - released as a 12” vinyl once again via Sentient Ruin in late 2019. Ekpyrosis was then followed up the following year by an even more imposing beast in the form of the second full-length Unitarity, and then in 2021 by the compilation System I which included also a cover of the Killing Joke song “The Wait”. 2023 would then see the release of the band’s immense third full-length album Order, and industrial black metal beast destined to consecrate Decoherence as one of the most exciting and promising new industrial underground extreme metal bands of the decade.