It is a slow, creeping thing, this fear, this cold hand at the nape of the neck. It does not announce itself with a scream but settles in like a sickness, tightening with every glance, every word that could be truth or treachery. The air thickens, the walls close in, and the face beside you…the one you once knew as well as your own…becomes a mask. Every breath is a question. Every silence is an answer you do not want. You try to recall the moment trust slipped through your fingers, but it vanished before you knew to grasp it.
Rome’s industrial dark-wave outfit This Eternal Decay plunges headfirst into the abyss with Cold Fear, the second single from their forthcoming fifth album, SPETTRO. A collision of brooding synths, relentless percussion, and guttural intensity, the track distills paranoia into sound. Born from the creative synergy of Riccardo Sabetti (Spiral69), Pasquale Vico (Date at Midnight), Andrea Freda (Spiritual Front), and Alessio Schiavi (Avant-Garde), the band fuses darkwave’s longing with industrial’s mechanical menace.
Cold Fear fixates on the quiet terror of doubt—the unraveling of trust, the suffocating unease of realizing the familiar has turned unknowable, the presence beside you no longer safe.
The video, a disorienting experimental film directed by Luigi Lauria, is a fun performance video with a few spooky tricks up its sleeve.
Watch the video for “Cold Fear” below.
This Eternal Decay quickly established themselves with the release of their debut album, I Choose an Eternity of This, via Trisol Music Group. The album garnered immediate attention, leading the band on a tour through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, including two performances alongside Samsas Traum.
In April 2020, they unveiled Silence, featuring collaborations with Then Comes Silence and Theatres des Vampires. Though the pandemic halted their European tour, Silence was met with widespread acclaim, prompting three reissues in just five months. June 2021 saw the release of Leave, a maxi-single featuring remixes by Kurs Lestat and an acoustic rendition with Luigi Rubino (Ashram).
Their third album, NOCTURNÆ, arrived in January 2022, boasting guest appearances from Hapax and Avant-Garde, with remixes by ACTORS, Ash Code, Wisborg, and A Copy for Collapse. It earned praise as one of the year’s best darkwave releases and fueled the NocTour, a 15-date European run with sold-out shows.
Momentum surged in 2023 with ABSØLUTIØN, released on May 18, followed by a debut live performance at Wave Gotik Treffen and a European tour spanning 30+ dates, including appearances at Castle Party, Prague Gothic Treffen, and Return to the Batcave.
Listen to Cold Fear below and order SPETTRO here.
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