I Am Providence: The Voice of Death

Between her crusades in Deep Fade and The Spectral Light, 2025 has been Amanda Votta’s most accomplished in her quest to explore art’s harshest frontiers.

In celebration of Halloween, the Detroit-born, Liverpool-based Votta teams up with Roy K Felps (Korperschwache) as I Am Providence, who today release their debut collaboration LP, The Voice of Death. (Exclusive to Sun 13, you can watch the video for The Voice of Death’s opening track, Kill Them All and Come Back Alone below.)

As I Am Providence, Votta and Felps trade barbs that cut deep, leaving permanent marks. The duo’s key focus onThe Voice of Death, the incessant power struggle against the malaise of aggressive capitalism and the privileged few. It’s the “machinery of war” as I Am Violence rightfully claim, and The Voice of Death is the sound of it. Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, a slow grinding churn that echoes Godflesh at quarter-speed; a sonic backdrop to quarry being cornered on the killing floor.

Through sweltering sonics, on Sleepwalking on Unholy Ground, Votta’s voice slowly emerges like a groan from the void. Similarly with The Witch Who Brings the Plague, both songs call upon the political unrest that currently overshadows the world. And the residue leaks into The Mushrooms That Grow in the Soil of a Shallow Grave – dystopia sci-fi scanner drone that sees Votta and Felps exchange a maelstrom of noise as they approach the darkest frontiers.

Which is where they arrive with Spectral Insomnia. Doom-laden horror-tronica through the smashed lens of Skinny Puppy, with a beat like a heart pumping blood to organs, it gradually unfurls into a slowcore drone that finishes at the edge of a hellscape. And like its title suggests, Final Moments is the sound of falling from said hellscape. The erosion of hope in a snapshot of anguish, Votta’s voice crashes through the speakers like a hammer blow.

So many artists are making music adapted for these times, but few have captured the uncertainty through such an unhinged nature as Votta. And accompanied by Felps’ ruthless walls of sounds, The Voice of Death is the latest unsettling chapter in something likened to being sucked into the vortex.

The Voice of Death is out now via Cruel Nature Records. Purchase from Bandcamp.