There is probably no more worn-out context pressed into alternative music than darkness, but in my opinion, most often the sounds that truly look into the darkness are absolutely different than those that one might think of at first association. Danish Kollapse takes on darkness with a guitar alternative and does it more than interestingly
Author: Wiesław Czajkowski
I like bands that create music that is not easy to classify and name. Perhaps it's because, when communing with sounds from very different corners of creative invention, I often clash with the strenuous and irritating attempt to name something that doesn't really need a name at all and lump it into a drawer of needs. All it needs is attention – even just a little bit.
The Danish trio Kollapse plays essential, dark music. They are definitely on the side of darkness. However, it is not a comic book blackout like that of black metalists, nor is it a gothic darkness filled with second-hand glitz. Kollapse ventures into areas where people think more about putting their heads in a microwave than about spiderwebs and vampires.
Let's imagine music that will be a kind of postmodern thought reworked into a canvass of noise, one that actually isn't really interested in what it is, doesn't really strive for a name, but boldly combines elements that on paper might seem to lack connection points, but in practice have them. This is why I feel I shouldn't make it easy for myself and spill the labels of scenes or genres.
Kollapse creates a highly offensive, wild and emotional noise that is surprisingly subtle and downright muted at the same time. You can find some similarities in their music to bands such as Chat Pile, Guiltless, Great Falls, or even Daughters, but again, to make it not so easy, these will not be strictly musical similarities, it will rather be a similarly uncompromising way of treating sonic matter, devoid of barriers, artificial inventions and smooth words that are mainly useful to critics.
An important element of Kollpase and, of course, AR puzzle is the sound of this essentially guitar music. AR sounds cold and mechanical, but it has more of a junkyard and rust feel than a well-oiled machine. Thanks to this, all the grating sounds, which in the olden days could easily have been included in the Amphetamine Reptile Rec. catalog, reinforced by the weight and strongly beaten tempos, get stuck in your head. Steady, sometimes arrhythmic, nervous, but you can still clearly hear what the poet or composer had in mind. This is a significant advantage.
AR is a strange piece of music, on the one hand I am aware of its quality and strong message, but on the other hand, somewhat paradoxically, I understand that it is not easy to find an audience who will appreciate this type of music. Maybe if there was an Extreme Roadburn festival, where bands like Kollapse would play, but for now there is no such thing. For today, our imagination will be enough and using it, I encourage all future participants of the festival that does not exist to approach Kollapse.
AR Album : https://kollapse.bandcamp.com/album/ar
Follow Kollapse:
https://www.facebook.com/Kollapseband
About the author: He has been associated with heavy music for so long that he no longer remembers who was first - Celtic Frost or Venom. Half in charge of Disco Hospital Booking, an independent concert initiative centered around alternative.
