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Juturna

Act Appalled

In Fear and Faith

We're All Thieves

The Glorious Nosebleed

On Letting Go

In The Morning And Amazing...

Your Friends Are Gone

Mandala

Travel Hymn

Kicking Your Crosses Down

Borrowed Bearings is the fourth chapter in Vector Collapse’s seven-album arc — the moment where the blast crater, the rebuilt workshop, and the dead-reckoning journey all slow down long enough to listen.

These songs live in the spaces between big decisions: the hum of a room you’ve called “normal” for too long, the way you stand like your parents without meaning to, the late-shift agreement with someone just as wrecked as you not to make the night any worse. It’s metalwave wired for small, specific scenes instead of slogans — heavy guitars and neon synths wrapped around lyrics that look straight at the quiet stuff most people step over.

“Reserve,” “Signal Fire,” and “Slow is Smooth” anchor the record as the three flare points: learning to keep something in the tank, catching the almost-missed warnings, and finally choosing pace over chaos. Around them, the rest of the album maps the subtle recalibrations that change your heading without a single dramatic speech: turning down circuits in “Breaker Shrine,” reading the stress fractures in “Tension Lines,” and letting a little honest light into the room on “Light Leans In.”

Borrowed Bearings is not about being saved by some perfect guide; it’s about borrowing steadier angles from the people and moments that show up when your own compass is spinning, and then slowly, stubbornly, learning to stand on your own feet again.

Tracklist:
1. Room Tone  
2. Soft Alarms  
3. Cold Forge Hymn  
4. Reserve  
5. Breaker Shrine  
6. Signal Fire  
7. Borrowed Bearings  
8. Borrowed Light
9. Slow is Smooth  
10. Tension Lines  
11. Nightshift Pact  
12. Margin Notes  
13. Worn Emblem  
14. Light Leans In  

Tags: vector collapse, Borrowed Bearings, metalwave, synth metal, retrosynth, concept album, heavy, introspective, electronic rock


Reserve

From the upcoming album Sojourner, “When No One Answered” tells the story of a man in the final moments of his life. Instead of encountering what he had been taught to expect, he finds something entirely different. He sees people everywhere, but nothing divine appears. In that moment, he realizes that God is not present in the form shaped by the modern evangelical church. He isn’t afraid—he’s fascinated by what he’s witnessing—but he also understands that he must accept a difficult truth: he doesn’t know everything, and neither do the people who claimed they did.

LYRICS:

VERSE 1
I slipped beneath
A waking tide
The world grew thin
And opened wide
A drifting leaf
In winter air
A brittle hush
No presence there

VERSE 2
I waited long
For gold to bloom
A whispered dawn
To cut the gloom
But dark held on
With iron hands
No open gate
No promised lands

PRE-CHORUS
I reached for heaven
Like it was mine
But found a desert
Without a sign

CHORUS
When nothing answered
I drifted further inside
When nothing answered
I learned the quiet could guide

VERSE 3
The sacred hush
Became a wall
A hollow sky
Too vast to call
And in that void
Where God should be
I saw a truth
Not taught to me

BRIDGE
The truth was softer
Than sermon hands
Not fire above
Nor strict commands
The God I sought
Was shaped by fear
And in the dark
That shadow disappeared

PRE-CHORUS
I reached for heaven
Like it was mine
But found a desert
With a different sign

CHORUS
When nothing answered
I drifted further inside
When nothing answered
I learned the quiet could guide

CHORUS REPRISE
When nothing answered
I drifted nearer the outside
When nothing answered
I found the strength to survive

When No One Answered

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The Robot With Human Hair, Pt. 1

Full Collapse

Standing On The Edge Of Summer

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