BUMP.
Kollapse = my favorite album of 2001 and much more . The progression of the band is incredible. They got better with each album.. and I still love their first three! They're IMO the only band that lived while Neurosis was still HEAVY and that reached such a level of excellence if one can relate them.
On Kollapse, the alternance between crushing, hardcore assaults and emotionnal, sometimes wandering build-ups works like no other. Excellent introduction (1st sample) followed by two 'classic' and hardcore rocking tracks that already bear a mark of maladive frustration and unbridled 'creative' catharsis (2nd sample) . What is particularly interesting is that the most agressive, raging songs sound like those on their previous efforts on LSD, thus prefiguring a sort of 'tragic' ending (3rd extract; first reaction = wtf?) . The more the album advances the more you realize that you reach an ineluctable end, between hope and resignation (4th sample ; closer of the album/band's career). It's the end of an era.
It's the kind of album you have to live with, alone, trying to relate it to your own living and frustrations more than any other
By the way, you know how much I'm a fan of The Ocean Collective
(no? now yes. Fluxion is my favorite metal album of the 00's) . Although it's completly different in its impact and actual sonority I will say this :
Percussions on the Human Stain = Opening of Big Strong Boss on 'Kollapse'
Some Riff in Isla de la Luna = Black Sabbath on 'Venom'
Opening of Killing the Flies = beginning section after the intro in Detonation on 'It's me god'
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Of course there's nothing to be ashamed of (especially when Cult of Luna's first two are Breach + Neurosis), on the contrary but Breach literally traumatized The Ocean's mainman, Robin Staps.. and you can actually see it. It's extremly subtle and intelligent though.
Breach = unknown pionners that trace the alley for that classic post-hardcore school. Except that nobody or few, did better.
That's the definition of genius in art.
Samples :
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=83V7YOB2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SDIKHBUL
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3PA9BNV0
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QQE2MRQ9
As I speak I've just received my copy of 'It's me God'
