Kollapse and Grava stream new collaborative album »Kollapse & Grava«; out now via Vinyltroll Records and Futhermocker!
Danish hardcore/sludge metal bands Kollapse and Grava have just released their collaborative album »Kollapse & Grava« on June 6th, 2025 via Vinyltroll Records and Futhermocker.
Tracklist:
01. Kollapse & Grava – Invokation
02. Kollapse – Hæmatomets filosofi
03. Grava – Hæmatomets filosofi (Blóðtøka)
04. Kollapse & Grava – Knæl
05. Kollapse & Grava – Omen
06. Grava – Red Furnace
07. Kollapse – Red Furnace
08. Kollapse & Grava – Knell
Courtesy of Audible Music:
The two Danish heavy trios Kollapse and GRAVA released the collaborative album »Kollapse & Grava« on June 6, 2025. The album release sees the full elaboration of the project’s core concept, where each band wrote a new track, which was then interpreted musically and lyrically by the other, thus creating a new unique composition. Thus, the album consists of four new compositions tied together by collective instrumental passages.
Kollapse and GRAVA premiered the album live on Saturday July 5th at the legendary Roskilde Festival in Denmark, where the visual and auditory possibilities of the Gloria stage formed the perfect setting for a complete sensory bombardment. The same day, a limited vinyl version was released via Vinyltroll Records and Futhermocker.dk.
Listen to Kollapse & GRAVA’s new collaborative album HERE.
Kollapse states on the album: “For Kollapse, this project has been a way to push ourselves and our creative processes in new directions – a way to step outside of our comfort zone and create new music in a collaborative effort. To co-create in such a creative process – especially for a band like us that is usually very closed around ourselves – has been a huge challenge and task for us, which has given us new understandings of our own musical direction and expression, and moved our musical output down new paths.”
Photo by Peter Troest
And GRAVA elaborates on the collaborative Roskilde show: “We have shared venues with Kollapse before, but this time we’re actually on stage together and experiencing our music flow together in a unique way. Fortunately, we have a common attitude towards creating music and we simply let our guards down and went wherever to flow took us. It’s been insanely cool to experience. We have gotten an opportunity to play on a very special stage, so we have thought deeply about how to create a special live event for this project. We all want it to feel as honest and as raw for the audience as it does for us on stage and this is very much in the spirit of the music we made for the album itself. Therefore, we have added a unique visual dimension to the live show, so that the whole project is attacked from every possible angle.”
In the borderland between hardcore and sludge metal, Aalborg-based Kollapse and Copenhagen-based GRAVA have developed the album »Kollapse & Grava«, a monolith of darkness that radiates bright black light, and the result of a very special collaboration between two of the most unique bands in the Danish music underground.
Both bands are trios playing uncompromisingly hard, but there are also many differences to be detected. GRAVA originates from heavy doom sludge, while Kollapse conveys an extreme output that is best described as hardcore based on New Yorker noise-rock. Kollapse has made its mark at home and abroad with a merciless album series, which culminated in early 2024 with the band’s third and award-winning LP »AR«, while GRAVA with two unusually strong full-lengths within less than two years has also established itself on the Danish and international scene, most recently with »The Great White Nothing« from September 2024.
Over a number of years, the two bands have met on tour, played shows together and naturally built a friendship in which the idea of a joint project arose. Originally, the plan was “just” to record and release a classic split 7″ single, but the idea soon morphed into an artistic process, where the two bands barricaded themselves in their respective rehearsals over the autumn and winter of 2024 to each dish up a completely new composition that could make the other band peel their eyes and ears wide open.
Full of trust and with the vision of pushing boundaries, the two bands continuously initiated each other into their own new music and the lyrical universe around it. The main idea was that the two bands would also interpret and record each other’s new song. Never before have Kollapse or GRAVA been so open about their art and blindly handed over their newborn child, as any new composition is, to another band, to experience it treated without any limitations at all. The result is the two tracks »Hæmatomets filosofi« and ‘Red Furnace’ which thematically tie a blood-red bow of arteries around body, flesh and captivity.
On the other side of the songwriting, the producer duo Flemming Rasmussen Metallica, Morbid Angel etc.) and Peter Peter were ready at Sweet Silence Studios to encapsulate the magic in the four very different compositions over three days, as well as a small handful of instrumental and ambient pieces of music that help create a sonic skeleton to the album’s meat and muscle.
Kollapse is:
Peter Clement Lund – Guitar, Vocals
Thomas Martin Hansen – Bass, Vocals
Peter Drastrup – Drums
GRAVA is:
Atli Brix Kamban – Guitar, Vocals
Casper Axilgård – Drums
Niels Asger Svensson – Bass, Vocals
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well