Tyler Wolverton - Compression/Decompression

Compression/Decompression

In the ashes of Onyx Hammer, Tyler Wolverton met another active musician in the local music scene, Steve Stigmatic, award-winning saxophonist who had been in many other bands including Dead Members Of Society, The Counted, and NRN. The two met at a party through mutual friends and discussed their varying musical tastes and influences. The discussion outlasted two campfires and many, many beers, and would lead Wolverton to show Steve some of the different elements of industrial music. After having several other discussions about music the two decided to make a mixture of noise, metal and industrial this leading to Wolverton’s most recognizable band, Co/Dec (Compression/Decompression). Steve Stigmatic was looking to make some new music, but became bored of the routine each of his punk bands seemed to have, so he decided to make some heavy industrial beats with his synth. Soon Wolverton decided to make lyrics and added his own touch of heavy metal vocals. After only a few practices, the two quickly made a demo entitled “From Hell”. Co/Dec became a regular on the local Auburn radio station KGRG. “From Hell” became their first single on KGRG's industrial show, System Overload. Shortly thereafter, the duo produced the song "Plague" as their follow-up, but were unimpressed with the overall sound of the song, and so it became an internet-only release. After several weeks, there became a collection of over 30 unfinished songs, and three remixes of “From Hell”. To go along with the rising amounts of songs to complete, there was a phenomenal spike in Co/Dec's popularity. After a band discussion, Tyler and Steve decided that a live performance was in order. However, due to arguments between the artists they disbanded later that year.