Chris Burda and Matthew Jason got together to develop their own music under the name of Collapse Under The Empire in 2007. They both released the first four songs for the EP Paintball in summer 2008. After that they came up with their self-produced debut album, Systembreakdown, which was recorded in their own studio and saw the light as a digital album of day in spring 2009. The recording allows dreamy melancholic melody to flow within an atmospherically interwoven, electrifying sonic tapestry with angry moments. Collapse Under The Empire always sounding multi-faceted from minimalist, crackling, fragile sound spots to mounting, monumental sonic thunderstorms.

For the second album the band were signed by the indie label Sister Jack. The new album Find A Place To Be Safe will be out over CD Baby on Jan. 15th 2010. It was mastered by Michael Schwabe at Monoposto Studio. The appropriate single Crawling was pre-publicized on Sept. 25th 2009 over Believe Digital. Despite occasionally intricate arrangements, Collapse Under The Empire never lose sight of their songs and consistently stick to the leitmotif in everything they do - which is what makes their music a unique experience and worth listening to.

Press Release:
About "Find A Place To Be Safe"

Collapse Under The Empire created their own unique style and by doing what they confined to themselves from post-rock standards. 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. There are dark end time scenarios accentuated musically, which can also be seen in the artwork.
Find A Place To Be Safe is an album without any restrictions. Keyboard sounds flood your auditory canals, strings 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. Everything goes, everything is possible and the album seems to change when you listen to it more than once. Collapse Under The Empire will cause the listener to react from total relaxation to cold sweated fear, and then embark on a journey through colourful worlds of sound. A journey through ice, fire, fog and reality to help you find your own soul.

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Reviews

God is in the TV (UK)
Sadly, I can't see this album being anything but ignored, which is a huge shame because it is worthy of anyones attention and in my opinion, if a song or two made it onto an advert, I am sure that people would accept Collapse Under The Empire much like people accepted Sigur Ros. I really don't think you can go wrong with this album.

Radio K (US)
....it socked us so hard we can’t recognize its towering levels of awesome. Yes it’s post-rock but it embodies the genre without pretention or artsy flourishes, only sheer brute strength and thundering intensity. They don’t beat around the bush - both their band name and album title imply a bloody dystopia, an apocalyptic reckoning that will be as gorgeous as it is inevitable.

Shakenstir (UK)
Collapse Under The Empire have created one dark adventure here, which is capable of grabbing you by the throat for the journey. While there is sonic diversity, there’s also a consistent musical formula which can make this occasionally sound a tad repetitive. However, I remain hugely impressed by the band’s ability to construct instrumental music that paints pictures of such emotional power, while remaining easily accessible. Strongly recommended.

Manchester Music (UK)
... this album is an incredible mixture of instrumental ambient post rock and new progressive Krautrock. Collapse Under The Empire walk in the footsteps of other fine exponents such as Explosions and Oceansize, but seek the stouter middle ground of stadium hooklines as well as the fusions of ambient electronica.