Decline and Fall

Armando Teixeira has a long and multifaceted career and is considered one of the pioneers of EBM and Industrial in Portugal. Ricardo S. Amorim was the author of two music books and, in conversations about music and records that influenced them, Armando Teixeira’s 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. Wanting to surround himself with people who shared this vision, Hugo Santos comes into the fold, from Process 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.