{"id":40046,"date":"2024-04-08T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40046"},"modified":"2024-03-30T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:27:58","slug":"decline-and-fall-announce-new-ep-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40046","title":{"rendered":"Decline and Fall announce new EP \u2018Gloom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bleak Recordings\u00a0has announced\u00a0\u2018<\/strong>Gloom,\u2019 the debut EP From Portugal’s\u00a0Decline and Fall, a new darkwave project from Armando Teixeira,\u00a0Hugo Santos\u00a0and\u00a0Ricardo S. Amorim,\u00a0all prominent artists in the Portuguese alternative and heavy music scene.

Armando Teixeira\u00a0has a long and multifaceted career and is considered one of the pioneers of EBM and industrial music in Portugal, through projects such as\u00a0Ik Mux, which began in 1986, and\u00a0Bizarra Locomotiva, which he founded in 1993 and remained the main creative force until he left a decade later. With a vast and award-winning body of work as a composer, whether in\u00a0Boris Ex-Machina,\u00a0Knok Knok,\u00a0Da Weasel,\u00a0Bullet\u00a0or\u00a0Balla, which has been the artistic incarnation he has nurtured for the longest time, he also has a prolific career as a record producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo S. Amorim\u00a0is the author of the books\u00a0Culto El\u00e9ctrico\u00a0and\u00a0Wolves Who Were Men-The History of Moonspell, and met Armando Teixeira in 2015 for an article about\u00a0Besti\u00e1rio, the second full-length by\u00a0Bizarra Locomotiva, released in 1998. When they met again years later, in conversations about music and records that influenced them, Armando Teixeira\u2019s desire to return to his roots was awakened, composing in a way that brought to the surface what would be his primary influences, from post-punk to new wave, through industrial, but with a necessarily more evolved experience and artistic maturity, as well as access to completely different tools from those he had when he started out in the 80s, and a technical and theoretical knowledge that has never stopped growing.

Wanting to surround himself with people who shared this vision,\u00a0Hugo Santos, from\u00a0Process of Guilt, which, over the last 20 years, has explored heaviness and rhythmic intensity, punishingly repetitive and cathartic, as a privileged form of expression. Common tastes and influences are discovered, records are shared that have influenced all three or that are new discoveries for one or the other, inspiration grows and the seed that gives rise to Decline and Fall germinates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the title track\u00a0and pre-order the EP via Bandcamp below<\/p>\n\n\n