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| 4.0 excellent | Hot Chocolate CONTRIBUTOR | May 6th 20 |
is it time to start talking about all time greatness for whatever this band has been doing for the past 10 years?
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| 0.0 | Slex | May 9th 20 |
This album is insanely bad and the praise it's getting downright incenses me. Boring and
generic electronic elements, near-relentless meathead buttrock chugging in lieu of actual
riffs and painfully corny and wildly inconsistent vocals make for a gigantic step down
for THE. Not just the biggest disappointment of the year; it's just plain ol' in general
one of the very worst albums released in 2020.
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| 2.0 poor | Mitch Worden EMERITUS | May 8th 20 |
Well, they got the title right...
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| 0.0 | Hirsch | May 11th 20 |
The album is way better then the singles suggested.
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| 4.5 superb | misho87233 | May 8th 20 |
I don't really understand those 2-score ratings.. this is easily their best album to date and it's
only getting better with every one listen to the whole experience.. one of the best not only prog
albums of this year
Love the death and black metal sections in some of the songs - a nice surprise
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| 3.0 good | iamSeraph | January 1st 22 |
Their most easily accessible, but unfortunately
also their weakest album yet imho. The short
runtimes really hurt the creative possibilities
of the songs, most math-heavy prog is gone, and
the tonalities are all over the place as well.
There is no clear focus, no greater idea, while
electronics go hand-in-hand with Nu Metal- and
even Djent-ingratiations. Of course there are
occasional bright spots as well, like for
instance the ending of AGERA, the epic buildup of
TORKA, or the
grandiose title track KOLLAPS overall - but
firstly, this is a Hirsch Effekt record after
all, so did you really expect a complete failure
guys - and secondly, these are also three of the
only long tracks of the album. This speaks to the
theory that THE simply need longer songs to fully
shine. Anyway. It's a letdown considering their
amazing discography, but it's still better than
most contemporary German progressive post-
hardcore. Curious to see them live this year and
check out their energy iRL.
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| 0.0 | didnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | June 25th 20 |
It seems this album warrants either praise or hate. I don't understand either. It is far from a bad album. The instrumentation, production and even the vocals (that so often become grating on such records) are all high-class. Songwriting also is pretty memorable, which is unusual for the common noodly show-off prog contemporaries (looking at you, Animals As Leaders). But 'Kollaps' is not a breath of fresh air either. An exercise in the familiar, it reuses ideas, creative choices and tropes far from unusual in this style. So here's to a perfectly listenable fun prog-core album.
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| 4.0 excellent | kalkwiese | May 9th 20 |
THE try lots of new things here. One thing is shortening the songs, that's quite a challenge for a band like this. Another thing is some new styles. The opener Kris is like a Leprous song from The Congregation/Malina era. Bilen is like a more complex Rammstein song. Some songs a little more electronic, like Torka. The songs don't have these big intros and outros, they go into eachother directly, so this album has a different sense of pacing than the ones before.rKollaps is a good album by a band that isn't afraid to challenge themselves. Some might be turned off, but THE are keeping their identity while eliminating every sense of treading water. It's a success.
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| 2.5 average | qt | June 4th 25 |
| 3.5 great | El Olam | November 13th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | luschn | April 22nd 23 |
| 2.5 average | Zac124 | April 1st 23 |
| 4.5 superb | craPkit | February 8th 21 |
| 3.0 good | fb2k | September 28th 20 |
| 1.5 very poor | Alex C. | September 4th 20 |
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