Collapse

Grief Ritual's punishing brand of metalcore twists blackened metallic hardcore and the crushing, slower sides of black and death metal to their extremities. On debut album Collapse, the anger, frustration, and disenfranchisement they feel about the UK and wider world are laid bare. Human extinction, capitalism, genocide, ecocide, and the rise of populist right authoritarianism are explored in garish detail across ten tracks. Sociopolitical issues such as austerity, racism, misogyny, wealth inequality, gentrification, and eroding human rights are also put under the microscope, as first written about on their critically acclaimed debut EP Spiritual Disease. Collapse has riffs, beats, and breakdowns that obliterate, and a bass tone fit to tear down the establishment. Dualling vocals from a wide spectrum of extreme metal, and the most sinister and punishing of matte black death metal, bustle to take center stage across eleven