Collapse Under the Empire

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Collapse Under the Empire
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General information
Genre (s) Post-rock , instrumental , ambient
founding 2008
Website collapseundertheempire.com
Current occupation
Guitar, bass
 Martin Grimm
Keyboard, drums
 Chris Burda

Collapse Under the Empire is an instrumental post-rock band from Hamburg , which was founded in 2008. The duo, consisting of Chris Burda and Martin Grimm, has released six studio albums as well as a number of EPs and singles.

history

Chris Burda and Martin Grimm first met in Hamburg in the summer of 2008. In 2009 four songs were composed for the first EP Paintball under the name Collapse Under the Empire .

The debut album Systembreakdown was initially released in 2009 on his own. A year later, the successor Find a Place to Be Safe was released on the Sister Jack Records label and began to make the band known internationally. Magazines like Q and Clash and Rocksound praised the band's cinematic sound.

With The Sirens Sound , a psychedelic mini-album was released and shortly afterwards the split EP Black Moon Empire together with the Russian band Mooncake . The band also contributed the title Anthem of 44 to the compilation Emo Diaries by the American label Deep Elm .

The third album by the band Shoulders & Giants was released in 2011 and is the first part of a concept work . Shoulders & Giants received good reviews - the music magazine Visions praised, among other things, the "beyond doubt [e] [...] crystal-clear production" and described it as a "convincing and captivating album" . Plattentests.de highlights the “imaginative arrangements” and “cinematic sound clouds” of the album and awarded it a grade of 8/10. The band also consolidated its reputation internationally.

In September 2012, Collapse Under the Empire released their fourth album, Fragments of a Prayer, on their own label, Finaltune Records . It was named album of the month in the music magazines Zillo and Sonic Seducer . The following year the 6-track EP The Silent Cry was released . It was voted among the 50 best publications of 2013 by eclipsed magazine .

In May 2014, Collapse Under The Empire completed their concept two-parter with the album Sacrifice & Isolation . The two-parter from Shoulders & Giants and Sacrifice & Isolation is her most ambitious work to date.

After eight years of pure studio work, Collapse Under The Empire have decided to bring their music live on stage for the first time. The band made their live debut on May 7, 2016 at the Dunk! Festival in Belgium.

In October 2017 Collapse Under The Empire released their sixth album called The Fallen Ones and for the 10th anniversary of the band in December 2019 the retrospective album "The End of Something" and the single "Beyond Us". In addition to the digital version, "The End of Something" was released on December 13, 2019 in a limited (150 copies) lavish 4-LP box. A new album is planned for April 2020.

style

Collapse Under the Empire play instrumental post rock, with influences from other genres such as trip-hop , shoegazing , synth pop and progressive hard rock . The band's style is compared with bands like 65daysofstatic and God Is an Astronaut, among others .

Commitment to environmental and nature conservation

So far, the band has raised money for environmental organizations with two charity singles. In 2011 The Silent Death was released in aid of Sharkproject and in 2014 Lost in aid of Rettet den Regenwald .

Discography

Studio albums

  • System breakdown - 2009
  • Find a Place to Be Safe - 2010
  • Shoulders & Giants - 2011
  • Fragments of a Prayer - 2012
  • Sacrifice & Isolation - 2014
  • The Fallen Ones - 2017
  • The End of Something - 2019

EPs

  • Paintball - 2009
  • The Sirens Sound - 2010 (mini album)
  • Black Moon Empire - 2011 (Split EP)
  • The Silent Cry - 2013
  • Collapse Under The Empire vs. Cato - The Remixes - 2015

Singles

  • Crawling - 2009
  • Grade Separation - 2010
  • Anthem of 44 - 2010
  • Black Moon Empire - 2011 (Split Single)
  • The Silent Death - 2011 (Charity Single)
  • Disclosure / The Great Silence - 2011 (Double A-side Single)
  • There's No Sky - 2011
  • Dragonfly - 2012 (Free-Single)
  • Closer - 2012
  • Breaking the Light - 2012
  • Stjarna - 2013 ( Depeche-Mode cover)
  • We Are Close as This - 2013
  • Lost - 2014 (Charity Single)
  • Sacrifice / Low - 2014 (Double A-side single)
  • Stairs to the Redemption - 2014
  • Giants (live) - 2016 (single video)
  • Dark Water - 2017
  • The Forbidden Spark - 2017
  • Anomaly - 2018
  • Abstracted - 2019
  • Beyond Us - 2019

swell

  1. ↑ Issue 283 (February 2010)
  2. ↑ Issue 53, p. 106 (September 2010)
  3. ↑ Issue 154, p. 91 (November 2011)
  4. ↑ a b c d Collapse Under The Empire - Shoulders & Giants plattentests.de
  5. ↑ a b Collapse Under The Empire - Save the Rainforest visions.de
  6. ↑ a b Collapse Under The Empire - Shoulders & Giants visions.de
  7. ↑ Big plans and a new video: Collapse Under The Empire announce their 2013 release plan at zillo.de
  8. ↑ October 2012 edition
  9. ↑ February 2014 edition
  10. ↑ Collapse Under The Empire - Fragments Of A Prayer visions.de
  11. ↑ Collapse Under The Empire support Sharkproject heartbeatmedia.de

Web links

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