In a Noisey interview, Anthony Green explained why this album took a little longer than Violent Waves:
Noisey: There’s a pretty long pause between Violent Waves and Descensus.
Green: Basically, the band sort of broke up in an unspoken way. I wasn’t talking to anybody, lots of personal shit was going on, we had to change our management, which was ugly – we had no internal guide. When I went to rehab, I got some fucking energy back, and it was like, ‘I don’t know what to do, I feel depressed as shit, I need to work through this time, the only thing that really makes me really feel good is playing music – please don’t leave me’. I switched from being obsessed with trying to get away from the toxic, isolating shit to this other thing about harmony and communicating; about not hiding or repressing anything. I was in a celebratory mode, and I remind myself of it everyday.