lowheaven
collapse


4.0
excellent

Review

by NBA USER (86 Reviews)
August 31st, 2023 | 34 replies


Release Date: 08/25/2023 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Overgrown with moss and filled with mold....

Lowheaven’s debut EP collapse is bleak. Its depressive weight clings to you like swampy air and is even described by the band itself as “not a happy listen”. Lead by ex-Sparrows frontman Dan Thomson, collapse retains Sparrows’ narrative-leaning song structures and presents them through a lens of screamo, blackened hardcore, and buzzy shoegaze. While obvious to the discerned ear, the band’s influences never result in collapse devolving into a rehash of any one of them. Rather, collapse carves itself an interesting niche with its deliberate pace and crushing guitar work, with opener “cancer sleep” slamming into the listener with a foreboding quality like an encroaching storm. It’s a feeling collapse creates and maintains throughout the EP with a combination of charred riffage and swelling, eerie melodic passages. “Buried In” strengthens the EP’s dread by encapsulating its entire range of emotions in one song, ending in a beautifully moody reverb-drenched outro. It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact reason collapse works so well, especially given its short runtime. The parts of its sum are easily identifiable but are stitched together with expertise and executed wonderfully. Fans of early metalcore will appreciate collapse’s oeuvre and focus on devastating riffs while also knowing that somehow with only 4 songs, there’s more emotion and mood soaked within than releases thrice the length.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
Calc
August 31st 2023


17456 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Short little blurb for what's hopefully the start of an awesome band.



https://lowheavenband.bandcamp.com/album/collapse

Pikazilla
August 31st 2023


31155 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

buried in is so fucking good

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
August 31st 2023


4596 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

This sounds like something I'd dig... great extended soundoff brother

MarsKid
Emeritus
August 31st 2023


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I was just about to say that this had a lot of similarities to Sparrows--checks out it looks like lol. Glad someone is filling in that void.



EP is solid as hell.

MarsKid
Emeritus
August 31st 2023


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Circuit Circuit, new Joliette, now this.



EP of the year has stiff competition!

Pikazilla
August 31st 2023


31155 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

sparrows and black peaks yeah

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
August 31st 2023


4596 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Similarities with Black Peaks? Yeah gonna have to check this immediately

MarsKid
Emeritus
August 31st 2023


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Man I miss Black Peaks :^(

tyman128
Staff Reviewer
August 31st 2023


4596 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah this is fantastic

Calc
August 31st 2023


17456 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

glad yall are diggin. and I didn't knew there's a new joliette out soooo brb.

MarsKid
Emeritus
August 31st 2023


21035 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

It's worth it man, the first three tracks in particular rip

Hawks
August 31st 2023


93344 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Bout 2 jam ahrd. m///

radianteclipse
August 31st 2023


513 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yep this certainly slaps

Hawks
August 31st 2023


93344 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

It's dece.

Calc
August 31st 2023


17456 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Chipmunk dammit...

Cygnatti
September 1st 2023


36115 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

My fault, Calculon…

Calc
September 1st 2023


17456 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Just miss you bro hope you doin alright!

Scoot
September 1st 2023


22610 Comments


something-heaven

Groundking
September 1st 2023


2329 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'Man I miss Black Peaks :^(' [2]

MillionDead
September 1st 2023


5574 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Definitely has some bright spots. The cleans hurt it.



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