Discography byCollapse Under The Empire
Title: Non-Album Singles & Bonus Tracks
Format: Compilation
Release: Aug. 8th 2024
The 15 tracks span the period from 2010 to 2022 and are a kind of retrospective of Collapse Under The Empire's work outside of the regular albums. Connoisseurs of the band will recognize subtle shifts in the sound, the use of electronics, the noise factor or the rock attitude that mark the development of COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE; the 15 tracks take the listener on a journey of development of the two over the years. This CD is a must for fans and a great look into the musical world and also includes 4 unreleased tracks.
Title: WORKS 12x LP Box Set
Format: LP Box Set
Release: June 1st 2024
WORKS is a very unique vinyl 12x LP Box Set, limited to just 200 copies. It has 12 vinyls with their complete discography including 114 songs and bonus features. Their largest LP box set ever. For the first time you can get the whole discography of 9 Albums + 3 EPs + Singles + Bonus-Tracks on 12 vinyls (12inch/ 30cm - 140g black) in a slip lid box.
Title: Recurring
Format: Album
Release: Sept. 29th 2023
Recurring can be described as an orchestral post-rock epic, that lifts the sound and complexity of Collapse Under The Empire to a new level. Thematically, it is about the perpetual cycle of life, that everything on our planet is constantly recurring. After destruction and death - purification, peace and redemption follows. The album is somber, melancholy and hopeful at the same time. "Recurring" creates a powerful sound that combines ethereal soundscapes with their bands signature guitar-driven post-rock sound.
Title: Forgiveness
Format: Single
Release: Sept. 15th 2023
Forgiveness is the second single of the album "Recurring" the duo shared with their listeners. Overall, the drumming is comparably present in this song, which leads to a rather marching and running touch.
Title: Revelation
Format: Single
Release: June 30th 2023
Revelation is a single from the new album "Recurring" (official release Sept. 29th 2023). On "Revelation" the band shows all the musical facets that have distinguished them for 15 years. A mix of different adjacent genres such as post-rock, electronic, ambient, shoegazing and orchestral echoes, which takes the listener on a journey into the unknown.
Title: Section I
Format: Single
Release: March 18th 2022
This Single called
Section I from of our
SECTIONS SERIES. It is purely electronic, still instrumental with only a frew post-rock guitars in the background. It shows a completely different side of Collapse Under The Empire's variety of compositions.
Title: Section IV-VI
Format: EP
Release: Dec. 24th 2021
Sections IV-VI is a EP compilation of three songs of our SECTIONS SERIES. With this release, we move further and further away from the post-rock sound and enter new electronic spheres, covering the musical varieties from ambient to ice-cold electronica.
This time we don't have any concept or story to achieve a certain emptiness and purification.
Title: Everything We Will Leave Beyond Us
Format: Album
Release: Nov. 20th 2020
With our 8th full length release we set to music a dark world that has got out of control. Hotspots everywhere, above all the corona virus, environmental destruction, the greed of mankind, injustice, exploitation, poverty, war and resistance. The 8 new titles show this development in dark soundscapes, apocalyptic guitars and epic synth sounds, piling up the tracks to huge mountains of sound. Thematically, Everything We Will Leave Beyond Us is no longer a utopia, but a bitter reality. One can only hope that mankind will survive the current crises, and above all learn from them!
Title: Red Rain
Format: Single
Release: Oct. 2020
Red Rain is a single from the album "Everything We Will Leave Beyond". Thematically, the single deals with current events in the world. Society has come to a standstill because of our own habits and through greed and environmental destruction the earth has been freed from resources that have caused entire animal worlds to become extinct.
Title: A New Beginning
Format: Charity-Single
Release: June 2020
We support the RED CROSS organisation in the fight against the CORONA epidemic with a charity single. Download the song here and support the organisation with a donation. You are free to choose any amount! All income goes to 100% to the foreign aid of the INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT by the German Red Cross.The track will also appear on our upcoming album "Everything We Will Leave Beyond Us" (Release 20th Nov. 2020).
Title: Beyond Us
Format: Single
Release: December 2019
BEYOND US is part of the album THE END OF SOMETHING, which is also available as 4 LP Box-Set. The single was also officially released with a music video. We thank Maxime Tiberghien, Sylvain Favre and Maxime Hacquard for using this awesome short film!
Title: The End of Something
Format: 4x LP Box Set
Release: December 2019
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary the retrospective album "The End of Something" comes with 38 tracks and is strictly limited as 4x vinyl box set. Included are rarities, new & bonus tracks, B-sides and the best of 10 years.
Title: Abstracted
Format: Single
Release: February 2019
The track Abstracted is the second forerunner single and combines vivid synthetic sounds with guitar walls and a very own signature sound of electronic post-rock.
Title: Anomaly
Format: Single
Release: December 2018
Collapse Under The Empire are back with the single Anomaly. The track combines everything that Collapse Under The Empire developed in the last 10 years.
Title: The Fallen Ones
Format: Album
Release: October 2017
The 9 tracks on "The Fallen Ones" conjure a dystopian journey that inspires to explore the landscapes of a pessimistic future. Highly interpretive and emotionally charged, The Fallen Ones evokes images of fear, insecurity and yearning. The album offers the listener the opportunity to delve into these emotions. The theme of the record fits quite well into today’s world, but besides anxieties and negativity about the future, the album also paints pictures of hope. It provides moments of being reminded to own inner strength and power.
Title: The Forbidden Spark
Format: Single
Release: October 2017
The Forbidden Spark is one of the most popular songs from the album The Fallen Ones. It also has been released as single a couple of days bevor the official album release date.
Title: Dark Water
Format: Single
Release: September 2017
Dark Water is a single from the album The Fallen Ones. It has been released with an official music video. The video was directed and created by Murat Kılıç.
Title: Giants
Format: Live Single
Release: June 2016
This is the live version of Giants, which was presented at the Dunk!festival in Belgium in May 2016. It also was the first live performance since the existence of the band in 2008!
The performance also has been recorded on video tape:
Title: The Remixes by Cato
Format: EP
Release: 2015
With four reinterpretations, Cato shows what cinematic qualities can be found in the tracks of "Collapse Under The Empire". In these, the menacing, analogue sound evolves to an epic range in its own cosmos beyond the mainstream. Later on, the song The Path was used in the Hollywood Trailer Brightburn in 2019. You can watch the trailer here:
Title: Stairs to the Redemption
Format: Single
Release: 2014
This single is part of the album Sacrifice & Isolation and has been released with an official music video. For the second time the video was directed by Daniel Tassell from London.
Title: Sacrifice/ Low
Format: Double A-Side Single
Release: August 2014
To celebrate and pass on the success of their new album
Sacrifice & Isolation, Collapse Under The Empire released the new double A single
Sacrifice/Low including an exclusive new track via Bandcamp and Soundcloud on August 8th 2014. The track
Sacrifice appears in a more compact shorter single version as on the album and sounds like a monolith frozen in the desert with its melancholic syntie surfaces, electro beats and apocalyptic guitar sounds.
Title: Sacrifice & Isolation
Format: Album
Release: 2014
With this release the band finished their two-part concept album with Shoulders & Giants. Until now, the their most ambitious work! Sacrifice & Isolation is about freedom, isolation and death. The final product is their darkest and most experimental album full of dramatic and unsettling sounds. The first half represents the electronic side of the album. Not until towards the end does an organic sound develop, which finally comes to a close with the last track, The Path. Collapse Under The Empire doesn‘t let much hope shine through the melancholic synth pads, electro beats and apocalyptic guitar sounds in Sacrifice & Isolation.
Title: Lost
Format: Charity-Single
Release: 2014
Collapse Under The Empire support the worldwide organization Rainforest Secure in their continuous work of preserving the rainforest and saving the animals, plants and people living there. All revenue go to 100% towards the organization. If we don’t rethink and massively go against the current trend, there will be no rainforest in the following years and no animals living in it. The meaning of this for the ecosystems and humanity as a whole does not need further explanation …
Title: We Are Close As This
Format: Single
Release: 2013
The second single We are close as this from the The Silent Cry EP is embed in the teaser video.
Title: The Silent Cry
Format: EP
Release: 2013
On The Silent Cry, Collapse Under The Empire demonstrates their facet-rich side and cover a great mix of styles in six tracks. Everything is represented, including electronic playfulness, strong outbursts, and orchestral and piano tracks. Every track generates its own voice and depth and stands on its own.
Title: Stjarna (Depeche Mode Cover)
Format: Single
Release: 2013
On time for the release of
Depeche Mode's 13th album "Delta Machine" in March 2013, Collapse Under The Empire shows their respect and covers the instrumental track
Stjarna, probably known only to fans, from the B-side of the single
Little 15. Collapse Under The Empire regards Depeche Mode as one of the most influential bands on their music, and present the atmospheric track in a new light. The track Stjarna can also be heard on the 6-track EP
The Silent Cry.
Title: Breaking the Light
Format: Single
Release: 2012
On the second single Breaking the Light, post-rock guitars meet atmospheric synthesizer inserts and elegant piano tracks, while the percussion, focusing on cymbal and accenting snare and tom hits, gives the ideas the emphasis they need.
Title: Fragments of a Prayer
Format: Album
Release: 2012
Fragments of a Prayer was the first album under our own record label finaltune records. The 10 instrumental tracks are very multifaceted, ranging from gripping melodies, orchestral dramas, and electronic confusion to the deepest, darkest epic; everything is present. Here and there, wind instruments, pianos, and strings add new accents full of drama and beauty, and the listener dives into a type of
soundtrack-like landscape. The song
Great Silence also has been released as video. It's been created during a collaboration work by students from the Luzern School in Switzerland, directed by Immanuel Wagner, Cecile Brun, Nils Hedinger and Katja Schiendorfer.
Title: Closer
Format: Single
Release: 2012
The single Closer is a foretaste of the upcoming album Fragments of a Prayer, which will be released on September 28, 2012. The track combines all the elements that have distinguished them so far. Interlaced electronic gimmicks, a driving rhythm, poignant melodies and a deep dark undertone that creates goosebumps. The single closer was released with a intense video clip, a short sci-fi (ish) psychological drama, made by a team of young filmmakers from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Title: Dragonfly
Format: Single
Release: 2012
The single “Dragonfly” was a free single for all fans. The song is an exclusive release that is not to find on any album.
This song was also released to shorten the waiting time on the coming album “Fragments of a Prayer”.
Title: Disclosure/ The Great Silence
Format: Double A-Side Single
Release: 2011
German post-rock act CUTE released a new double A- single and a new video to their song The Great Silence which is taken from their latest album Fragments Of A Prayer.
The Disclosure video shows a cloud of light-emitting spores are released from a clandestine lab deep beneath London's Barbican Estate and weave a new architectural landscape. A theatrical urban piece inspired by expressionist performance. It is directed by Daniel Tassell from London.
Title: There’s no Sky
Format: Single
Release: 2011
One of the most lovely songs from Collapse Under The Empire. It is a sad love story between two mythical creatures, showing in their official music video:
Title: Shoulders & Giants
Format: Album
Release: 2011
In 10 tracks, many different worlds of feelings will be experienced on Shoulders & Giants. It is a
two-part concept work.
The second part Sacrifice & Isolation was later released in 2014.
Shoulders & Giants thematically deals with the human existence, the dream of advancement, a life of absolute
freedom, isolation, and death. The listener feels like they are on a trip through an icy, mountainous landscape without the slightest sign of human activity.
Shoulders & Giants, presents itself as somber and full of hope, pacifying and adrenalizing, fearful and caressing, unobtrusive and brute, loud and soft, silent and telling, monotonous and ever-changing.
Title: Black Moon Empire
Format: EP
Release: 2011
What happens if you take one of Germanys best-known Post Rock bands, and mix it up with one of Russias best known Post Rock bands? That’s right, you get a Split EP full of surprises!
It is not just a compilation of tracks with russian band Moon Cake, Black Moon Empire is more than that! The title track is a composition of both bands and blends their unique styles, which winds along bend and curvess, culminating in a Post-Rock eargasm. The title track comes with a video that tells the story of a recluse who steals the moon in oder to bring back a loved one. The video was directed by Jens Blank.
Title: The Silent Death
Format: Charity-Single
Release: 2011
The Silent Death is a charity song, composed for a film of an organisation that fights
against the extinction of sharks. This single is the original 6 minute version of the soundtrack and
100% will go to The Shark Project. Decide by yourself how much you spend by downloading the song.
Title: Anthem of 44 (Deep Elm Sampler)
Format: Single
Release: 2010
The Emo Diaries, Chapter 12 features unreleased music by Dedicated To Dedications (Worthing, England), Arms Around The Stereo (Winnipeg, MB, Canada), The Dandelion War (Oakland, CA), The Sky Life (Edmonton, AB, Canada), Ease The Medic (Columbus, OH), Those Galloping Hordes (Reading, PA), Everlyn (Madrid, Spain), Goonies Never Say Die (Blackpool, England), Late Night Condition (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Nathaniel Sutton (Edmonton, AB, Canada), Collapse Under The Empire (Hamburg, Germany) and closes with a stunning submission by Summer Hours (Brooklyn, NY).
Title: The Sirens Sound
Format: Album
Release: 2010
Six months after the appearance of their second album, Collapse Under The Empire released "The Sirens Sound". In 5 songs covering 33 minutes and ranging between unassuming minimalism with fragile instrumental passages and complete offensive opulence, Collapse Under The Empire achieves their own cosmic sound. The Sirens Sound takes the listener on an instrumental trip into the unknown.
Title: Grade Separation
Format: Single
Release: 2010
GRADE SEPARATION is the single of THE SIRENS SOUND. Keyboard rule over the silence, while guitar walls pierce through sound barriers. Your own imagination is be winged by reappearing flashes of sound that sometimes flow through what you expected to be silent. GRADE SEPARATION will cause the listener to react from total relaxation to cold sweated fear, and then embark on a journey through colourful worlds of sound.
Title: Find A Place To Be Safe
Format: Album
Release: 2010
Find A Place To Be Safe brims over with power and intensity. It’s a soundtrack for the apocalypse without a happy end. Inspired by Orwell’s thought of an authoritarian state Collapse Under The Empire composed songs, like Take A Shot On Me and the claustrophobic album title track, to create a fitting instrumental background for societies similar to Orwell’s dark visions for the future.
Title: Crawling
Format: Single
Release: 2009
Crawling is the first single from Collapse Under The Empire and kicks off with a hypnotic echoed swirl, escorted into a rising colossus by some gentle piano work. Building to a breathtaking crescendo before splintering away into a void. It’s backed by Captured Moments, also to appear on the second album
"Find a place to be safe", another piece that rises and swoops with guitar/piano interplay.
Title: Systembreakdown
Format: Album
Release: 2009
“Systembreakdown” is the first full length album and contains just the right blend of catchy riffs, up-beat drums and soothing breakdowns with the kind of electronic touches. It’s great stuff for the night, setting the mood for quiet reflection and contemplation. Yes it’s post-rock but it embodies the genre without pretention or artsy flourishes, only sheer brute strength and thundering intensity.
Title: Paintball
Format: EP
Release: 2008
Our first EP comes with five tracks, three tracks are still unreleased but will released the first time in the end of 2023. We combine epic guitars with chilled electronic elements and a portion melancholic mood.