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System I

by DECOHERENCE

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Metallurgical Fire
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Metallurgical Fire System I is strange enough to have almost danceable tracks mixed in with the creeping dissonant dread (Dimension Witness, parts of Ray Spallation). This is a far more refined approach than that found on Unitarity. The Killing Joke cover is good but it feels a little out of place. Otherwise the album is one of my favorite dissonant black metal releases, certainly up there with Skáphe, Veilburner, etc. Favorite track: In Perpendicular Planes.
Hayduke X
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Hayduke X As is consistently the case with this project, System I is nightmare fuel of the highest order. Smoggy violence envelops the listener. Harsh ambient perfection. Favorite track: In Perpendicular Planes.
Christopher Charlot
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Christopher Charlot Another exceptional release from this industrial tinged, black metal horde. While not as straight forward as last years masterpiece Unitarity, Decoherence have found new ways to unsettle and creep through the eight tracks on System I. Mind blowing in concept and execution, this is a monument to the void, this is end times. Favorite track: Non-Holistic Constraints.
Ippocalyptica
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Ippocalyptica In retrospect, I never gave Unitarity the respect that it deserves, but now I can state that it ranks among my top 15 of 2020. System I is not as intense as Unitarity and, for this reason, its brilliance is perhaps not as immediately apparent, but as far as dissonant industrial black metal goes, you are not going to find better than this in 2021. Decoherence are among the elite in their field, and System I is quite the statement. Favorite track: Line of Force.
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Multinational industrial black metal rising force Decoherence join Sentient Ruin again to bring you "System I", a 12" vinyl, digital and cassette tape full-length album/compilation of all the band's recent digital only singles and EPs, remastered to their final and ultimate form along with a glorious and previously unreleased cover rendition of Killing Joke's classic cut "The Wait". While these tracks were previously already digitally (self)released, don't be fooled or misled to think you're hearing any "b-sides" or otherwise "left over" material, rather, consider "System I" not only the righteous third official full-length album from the band, but also by far Decoherence's most visionary, cohesive, and imposing songs to date. Awe-inducing and ghastly in its enveloping immensity, the tracks on "System I" see the enigmatic multinational black metal band morph into their most defiant and commanding form yet, as they construct an impenetrable mechanized swarm of liquefying industrial hallucinations and swirling dissonance that eradicates the listener from their corporeal and terrestrial self to cast them at the edge of a light-devouring void. Stylistically "System I" sees Decoherence's sound still thrive and evolve within the familiar synthetic black metal deconstructionist framework of progenitors like Blut Aus Nord and Darkspace, but as the Killing Joke cover included unmistakably hints at, these tracks also reveal a marked shift for the band toward a more unintelligible, unpredictable, and ominous immateriality, as elements incorporated from post-punk and experimental industrial assume stronger delineations adding ulterior dimensions and identities to the band's already alien and otherworldly sound.

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released May 21, 2021

► Tracks 1-2 from the 2020 digital only self-released "Nucleosynthesis" EP
► Track 3 from the 2020 digital only self-released "Dichotomic Observables" single
► Tracks 4-7 from the 2020 digital only self-released "Formulation and Solution" EP
► Track 8 “The Wait” previously unreleased, by Killing Joke (Coleman, Ferguson, Glover, Walker - Courtesy of Universal Music Publishing group)

Stroda: all instruments
Tahazu: vocals / lyrics
Prior: noise / electronics
Recorded and mixed by Stroda
Mastered at Necrosound
Artwork by Prior
Design and layoyout by MA

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