DECOHERENCE
Vast and immense ambient/industrial black metal envisioned, composed, and recorded by Stroda (UK), in partnership with Tahazu (vocals), and since 2019 also taking shape as a trio with Prior handling noise and electronic soundscapes. As with bands like Blut Aus Nord and Darkspace, 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/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 then saw the release of the band’s immense third full-length album Order, and industrial black metal beast which consecrated Decoherence as one of the most exciting and promising new industrial underground extreme metal bands of the decade.