Report | DECOHERENCE – Order

            The ongoing events in our world today inspire a grim outlook for times ahead, and such bleak futuristic realities are pinpointed by DECOHERENCE, who’ve now unveiled Order as their third full venture into hostile dimensions. This title is contrary to the aural chaos engaged on “Closed Timelike Curves,” after an ominous presence builds atmospherically around its industrial beats, and it launches through blasts and low-end speed riff currents with accented points to augment their erraticism. Melodic elements take form in ethereal string projections that evoke a cold and barren cosmos, with distinctly picked tones also echoing across multiple regions, and this universe expands during slower passages to reach mesmeric levels of trance. These elements collide further amid the grinding turbulence of “An Unconfined System,” where different fret patterns and tremolo currents emerge from its dissonant matter, and rhythmic effects strike high when a calculated groove evolves with beats timed to curves in deep riff space.

            The unsettling factor is raised on “With No Pre-Existing Direction,” where disharmonic frequencies are amassed over multiple percussive speeds, and their density intensifies further when blasts subside for sections with slow purposeful beats. Fretted constellations captivate as this aura evolves, and there seems to be time-dilating effects heightening the perception of some, which are traced across the charge of drumblasts until dissipating into a sparce-noted vacuum. Similar realms are traversed during “The Future Behind Them,” with a cosmic haze from one area surrounding the operation of industrial machinery, and those sounds are enough to provoke flashbacks of my past manufacturing job, contributing perhaps even more to the dread radiated throughout this track. While the vocals mainly drone through distantly from another plane of existence, they are able to match that anguished spirit here alongside burdened riff progressions, and these interact with the chaotic structures to yield greater potency for this composition.

            Tortuous riff forms unfold within the dismal expanse of “Quintessence Field,” and atmosphere becomes central to its grind, with haunted energies emanating from serene inner regions that also exhibit more intricate drum programming. These merge with their industrial counterparts and various alien technologies to reach a massive last encounter on “Degenerate Ground States,” and unlike the preceding tracks, which are partially designed around multiple rhythmic fluctuations, steady beats are maintained here as those other elements progress. The impact becomes hallucinatory before its totality speeds past an event horizon, completing a lawless and oppressive sonic configuration, and Order ultimately capitalizes on the band’s past voyages with many quantum details sure to draw listeners into its void.

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