Mortal Realm drops politically themed single ‘ROT (And Decompose)’
Mortal Realm (Photo by Motornerve Photography)
Seattle industrial project Mortal Realm has released the political single “ROT (And Decompose)” via Negative Gain Productions. The track is out as a digital single on Bandcamp and major streaming platforms.
The song continues Adam V. Jones’s blend of electro-industrial, EBM and dark electronic textures, now applied to US politics and power. He describes “ROT (And Decompose)” as “a critique of the current administration and a challenge to those who supported it in the past or present to confront the greed and malice hidden beneath its promises,” with an opening sample that mirrors “what happens when blind confidence replaces empathy and awareness.”
“ROT (And Decompose)” was written, recorded and mixed by Adam V. Jones, with mastering by Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg at Studio-600.
About Mortal Realm
Mortal Realm is the solo, multi-genre industrial project of Seattle-based musician Adam V. Jones, who previously worked in the Los Angeles esoteric-industrial duo Haex alongside Sarah Graves and created the solo project Sterling Silicon. Musically the project offers a mix of industrial, goth and post-punk with an electronic core, combining club-oriented rhythms with atmospheric and metal-tinged elements. The project is signed to US label Negative Gain Productions.
Jones first introduced his project via digital releases on Bandcamp, before announcing a full-length debut with Negative Gain. The album “Stab In The Dark” followed on 5 July 2024 as a seven-track set issued on digital, CD and vinyl formats through Negative Gain. Its tracklist comprises “Ox,” “Trash,” “Death Debt,” “The Face,” “Nostrum Nepenthe,” “Terminal Fate” and “The Bitterness of Life.”
Our review of the album “Stab In The Dark” described Mortal Realm as “the brainchild of American artist Adam V. Jones, previously known for his work with Haex and the lesser-known Sterling Silicon,” and described the album’s seven tracks as leading “the listener down a dark, intense Electro path where EBM and Industrial collide.”
Mortal Realm returned in late 2025 with the single “With A Heavy Heart,” released digitally on 7 November 2025 via Negative Gain Productions. And now there is “ROT (And Decompose).”
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