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Grapes Kollapse - Duration: 00:28:59
- Available since: 06/06/2025
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Not even a year has passed and here the Danes are back, pleasant surprise of last year: their essential sludge metal in “The Great White Nothing”, released for Aesthetic Death, had positively struck us perhaps not for originality, but for a marked inspiration. This new product, on the other hand, is a split album with the Kollapse, another Danish formation which, however, moves on more particular coordinates, highlighting a noise component decidedly more similar to a wider panorama in which they can be seen converges, quarries in, Helmet and Melvins.
The project, which will be performed live by the two bands together for the first time at the next Roskilde Festival in July, is sufficiently ambitious to attract our attention. Originally it should have been a classic split, but the two groups have decided to create something more complex and more similar to collaborations as often used in the world of groups such as The Ocean or Cult of Luna. In essence, Grava and Kollapse try their hand in two real songs, both giving their interpretation: “Haematometomets philosophers” and “Red Furnace”, therefore present twice in the tracklist. Then there are a series of intro, outro and intermezzi – played by both bands – which bring the total minute to almost thirty minutes of music.
If the interludes are mostly atmospheric, the two supporting songs are excellent compositions that in common have only the title, on balance: the Grava interpret the common theme with their dry and square songwriting (both their songs are under four minutes) while the Kollapse vents with buildings in several very different parts.
Their “Haematomets” in fact is a sort of suite of over nine minutes divided into three virtual movements: a first post-core part (and here they come back into play converge and quarries in), a dilated central part quite in line with the cult of Luna and a very rough ending in full Slugde Metal style.
In their “Red Furnace”, on the other hand, the dilated times and the noise parts return which make the song rather unstructured. The weighs on their part, exactly as in the previous album, remain exquisitely square and metallic also on their song with the same name, building their bearing structures on guitars but still leaving to go enough, and ultimately not being exaggeratedly far from the Kollapse.
Overall “Kollapse & Grava” is an interesting album that cannot be called 'only' as 'a long ep': the limited vinyl edition and the live presentation complete an artistic and typically underground framework.
In a nutshell, we are faced with a sound experience perhaps not shocking, but of sure value.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
