DECADENCE Sweden ®

This week, a friend and colleague of Decadence passed away in cancer. We would like to honor his memory by sharing some of our best moments together. Baffo was one of the few promoters out there who gave it all for his music passion with a professional and genuine attitude to the bands he worked with. He trusted Decadence when no one else would which ended up in two very special concerts in Rome, Italy. One day in the year of 2006, a fan, now a close friend, Alessandro Manocchio, found our album in a Rome underground Metal store in a basket with a bunch of albums. One thing lead to another and Alessandro and Baffo went all in, bringing Decadence, a yet unknown band, to Rome and the great club Jailbreak in the area.  As many of you know, Decadence is not a touring band, we travel wherever and whenever we are asked to come by fans and promoters like Baffo, making every concert special and memorable.

Some of you might have noticed that every now and then any of us in Decadence randomly perform with a black t-shirt with the text “Metal Massacre”. Sometimes we’ve gotten the question what it stands for – well, Metal Massacre is Baffo’s organization promoting concerts in Italy. We had lots of fun during our times in Rome. Some days after our last show there, we hanged out with Baffo in the park Villa Pamphili. Silly as we were we had a running race and Jocke fell and broke his collar bone. Awful moment, but we can look back at it with a smile now considering all that happened during our short time together. Baffo was with us at the hospital all night and took us the airport the morning after. Anyone who has had the honor to play on one of his events, especially at Metal Massacre, knows what we’re talking about.

Anyone who is a promoter themselves can hopefully be inspired by this story and see that a band-promoter contact does not have to mean a band treated like garbage because there will be other bands after that. Baffo was our friend and we kept promoting each other, even though our paths only crossed twice. It’s been 5 years since we saw Baffo last, but we’ll remember the moments we shared together forever. Rest in Peace.

Kitty, Kenneth, Jocke, Kristian and Marcus
D E C A D E N C E

A clip from Decadence last show at Baffo’s Metal Massacre:
Decadence live – May 25, 2007 in Rome, Italy

Decadence is once again a five-piece and today presents the new drummer, Marcus Jonsson. The next coming two months will be focused on completing the final touches on the new material and preparing for the studio later this spring. Marcus has many years of experience in the Stockholm Underground Metal scene with various successful bands. Having him join Decadence is something all of us look forward to. With Kristian Järvenpää and Marcus Jonsson completing the line-up, we are now available for booking upcoming shows and to enter the studio.

Decadence wishes you all a happy new year. Here follows our first update for 2012.

The new album is progressing and we are currently looking into distribution possibilities and other administrative work related to the release. It is already clear that the new album will also be available through our website for quick shipping everywhere. No quantity limits will appear when ordering this album as was the case with ‘Chargepoint’. The music material is finished but still we are not yet ready for the release. As this album will present Decadence in its finest days we don’t want to rush the final recording. Later on we will inform about the final release date.

We have also news in the line-up. The band is now strengthened by introducing an additional guitarist sided along Kenneth Lantz, his name is Kristian Järvenpää. Welcome on board! Further, Erik Röjås, our drummer during many years has now engaged in other music projects and has decided to leave the band. The new drummer of Decadence will be presented soon.

Considering the above mentioned news as a whole it is clear that the new album will have a fresh start with a new five-piece line-up and great new intense material.

Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Doors open at: 20:00 (8 p.m.)

Place: Göta Källare – T-Medborgarplatsen, exit Folkungagatan map

Tickets: Only at the door, 100 SEK

Event: Machine Rock Magazine releaseparty

First on stage: Sterbhaus

On the 7th of December Decadence will be on stage at Göta Källare in cold Stockholm, Sweden. Machine Rock Magazine celebrates its second issue and has invited Decadence and Sterbhaus as special guests to perform on this event, presented by myjam. This is probably the final appearance before we enter the studio. To make this night unique and different, we will perform some songs we have not preformed live in years, maybe never…! Also, we will not be a quartet as Kristian Järvenpää will be joining us as our new session guitarist, welcome onboard Chris! So, don’t miss out, be there and experience this special and rare Deca show with us.

Stay tuned, more info about the event itself will be up soon.

Two years have passed since the release of the album ‘Chargepoint’ by Decadence from Stockholm, Sweden. Many have let us know that the album is appreciated and we got positive feedback through reviews and interviews. We now gladly announce that the first single entitled ‘Vulture’ from Decadence upcoming album is released today on September 26, 2011.

Femme Metal Records has released this exclusive single on their special 2011 compilation album ‘Melody and Malice’. The compilation is released in the UK (distributed by Code 7 via Plastic Head) and in Germany (distributed by Twilight in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands). The profits from the sales will be donated to charity; National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The single version is different from the album version so this is a special occasion to experience Decadence before the 5th album is released. You can check out a preview of the track on YouTube: http://bit.ly/mWlk85

For eight years Decadence has worked with licensing and distribution deals, not signing, and has marked its brand in the modern Underground scene. The upcoming album aims to show and inspire others that there is nothing to fear by being independent.

In reviews of ‘Chargepoint’ one could read e.g: “Fiercely independent. Iron willed determination. Melodic thrash precision. /…/ Having done things on their own terms for the past several years, Their music belongs to the more elegant end of the thrash spectrum, oozing melody and sudden technical finesse, aggression and exuberance. Decadence are poised to carve a niche for themselves in the thrash genre”. – Maximum Metal Webzine

Words like this have inspired the next album and we in Decadence hope the single will give our listeners a sense of that.

Decadence is confirmed and will be playing at the Halloween Cruise on the Rockbitch Boat – a cruise between Stockholm, Sweden and Riga, Latvia. We will be sharing the stage with, among others, Engel, Sister Sin, Man.Machine.Industry, Degradead and a total of 30 bands on this brutal 40 hour Metal cruise! Don’t miss out, check the booking info to get hold of tickets and cabins.

Decadence will be on stage on October 29, 2011 at 10 p.m.  

We just got back to Sweden yesterday evening after having spent a great weekend in Lithuania and the Devilstone Open Air festival.

We would like to thank everyone involved in making Devilstone happen and to the organizers for inviting us to perform. We met some great people over there and we are appreciate all the support we got for our first show and appearance in Lithuania (also special thanks to Savage Messiah, you know why!).

Stay tuned for pics and comments in our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/decadencesweden.

We hope we will return soon!

We are glad to announce that we will pay a visit to Lithuania for first time! We have been invited by Devilstone Open Air Festival in Anyksciai, Lithuania on Saturday, July 16, 2011 for one exclusive show in the Baltic States. Stay tuned at Devilstone’s official website, HERE.

Get your tickets HERE.

Among others we will share the stage with Benediction, our partners in crime from Earache Records ‘Thrashing Like A Maniac’-compilation: Gama Bomb and Mutant, also some Swedish bands such as Ondskapt, In Mourning – and many more!

Don’t miss out, see you there!

Today we announced at Facebook that we are officially looking for a guitarist. Read the ad here (also in Swedish at Facebook):

Here we don’t think Decadence need a presentation. Our hope is that the person we are looking for has heard of us already. Our music is more technically suited for two guitarists, and considering our upcoming events, it’s time for us to find a new guitarist with Thrash- and Death Metal in the blood. We want you to feel comfortable with rhythm.

We want to know why you want to be part of Decadence so give a description of it to us and why you want to join. We would like you to be between 20-30 years old and include information about your qualifications, studio experience, live experience and the like. Send a picture of yourself and preferably a clip where you play, possibly a demo. We need a guitarist who is willing to put 100% into the band.

Send a message Kitty Saric (tagged in the note) on Facebook or email kitty[AT]decadence[DOT]se