Seven tracks of catastrophic blackened audio; binding, suffocating and punishing frequencies of pure morbidity. 
‘In Dolorous Sights’ explores obscure deathly enigmas through depressive black metal’s convergence with crushing noise, unsettling moods and intensity. With this album creator Old delves deeper towards the philosophic view of spiritual ruin, destruction of modern morality, of pose and body and the failings of faith. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno – CANTO IX

CREDITS
CD RELEASED SEPTEMBER 8 2015 ON SEANCE RECORDS - http://www.seancerecords.com/
LP RELEASE DATE: JUNE 25TH 2016 ON TRAIT RECORDS - http://traitrecords.com/ 

Recorded, Mixed and Produced by Old 
Mastered by James Plotkin 
All music by Drohtnung 
Artwork by Maxime Taccardi

05 - DROHTNUNG - IN DOLOROUS SIGHTS

01 - Elisabeth Dixon - Limit Experience

Since 2015’s debut EP Heartworm, Melbourne industrialists Kollaps have refined their restless brand of harsh, post-industrial noise. Recruiting doom/noise veteran Damian Coward [Heirs, High Tension] to bass/percussion/production in 2016, Wade Black (vocals) and Robin W. Marsh (drums, programming) offer up SIBLING LOVERS, an LP that intensifies the conflict between the twin energies of confusion and control at the core of Kollaps’ sound.

The band’s distinctive jarring textures and crude tones are created using re-appropriated waste materials like scrap metal, raw plastics and steel beams. For the band, this isn’t an empty gesture to the industrial genre, it’s a way to literally use the detritus of postmodern society against itself. The band also subvert convention by bypassing the desk and running their vocals directly through amplifiers, thereby injecting a hint of their live intensity into the recording. The overall effect is again of contrast- the band’s raw, provocative voice is amplified by the record’s subtly confident production. 

Conceptually, Sibling Lovers follows Heartworm’s exploration of a societal sickness that manifests itself in the debasement of the individual soul. For lyricist Wade Black, Sibling Lovers is introspective and confessional; images of actual physical sicknesses (cancer, colostomy bags, heart worms) are used to make sense a malignant world of slaughterhouses, incest and alcoholism. 

But it’s their intensity as performers, rather than their gruesome lyrical content that has built Kollaps a reputation for ferocious live shows and violent performances. Steadily drawing raucous crowds around Australia, alongside some of the best local and intentional underground performers [All Seeing Hand (NZ), Armour Group, Military Position, Mensch, Complete, DIM, Elisabeth Dixon, Primitive Calculators]. 

Mixed by Ivan Lisyak (now of Siberia Records) and mastered by James Plotkin (Sunn0))), Khanate) Sibling Lovers is released September 29th 2017 on TRAIT RECORDS (AU) & SILKEN TOFU (EU) - TRT005/STX.57

KOLLAPS - SUCK
TAKEN FROM "SIBLING LOVERS", RELEASED ON VINYL / DIGITAL 29.09.2017 ON TRAIT RECORDS(AU)AND SILKEN TOFU(BE)
PERCUSSION/BASS/NOISE RECORDED BY MIKE DESLANDES @ THREE PHASE STUDIOS
VOCALS/SAMPLING & ADDITIONAL NOISE RECORDED BY BEN ROBERTSON @ COMMON ERA SOUND
EDITING BY DAMIAN COWARD
MIXED BY IVAN LISYAK
MASTERED BY JAMES PLOTKIN @ PLOTKINWORKS
ADDITIONAL NOISE COURTESY OF LUKE HOLLAND/TRAPDOOR TAPES
ALL SONGS WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY KOLLAPS

Sibling Lovers

Suck

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Kollaps - Suck

PLYERS - CLEAR 
Released on Vinyl (Trait Records) and Digital (Art As Catharsis) on 11.07.2017 
Recorded and mixed with Neil Thomason at Head Gap Studios Preston, Victoria 
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audioseige, Seattle
Cover image by James Heenan. 
All songs written by PLYERS.

PRESSING DETAILS:
250 copies
140gm “Ultra Clear” Vinyl
CMYK Sleeve, printed on uncoated 330gsm stock
Download code included

04 - PLYERS - OWNER SUPPORTER

Elisabeth Dixon - JJJ Mix Up Set | 28.10.2017

Tracklisting:
1. Elisabeth Dixon – Asherah
(Delta Shaman)
2. Rrose – Onceless
3. FBK – Past Ownership
(Wandjina Visitations)
4. Positive Centre – Great Excavator
5. A/N - R&M
(Shamanic Sound)
6. Function – Psychic Warfare (Vatican Shadow Remix)
(Unisonic Ascension)
7. Abdulla Rashim – Alem Maya 1
8. Charlotte Isabelle – Geridoo
9. Eomac – Spectre (Tommy Four Seven Remix)
10. Pact Infernal – Nitimur In Vetitum

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