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 tracks of despotic terror.

Collapse was self-recorded and mixed by the band, alongside Jake Murray (Ill Vision), at Just Noise Audio. With mastering provided by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, Collapse is the follow-up to self-released debut EP Spiritual Disease.

The five-track EP, containing singles "Dissolution," "Telluric," and "Immurement," is twenty minutes of grim, paralyzing, cathartic, angry emotion, reminiscent of END, Harms Way, Nails, and early Napalm Death. It was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joe Clayton (Pijn, Leeched, Curse These Metal Hands) at No Studio.

Such a thoughtful, driven, and honest approach has already led to the young band catching the attention of many, with festival appearances at Bloodstock, 2000 Trees, ArcTanGent, 80Trees, and Tech Fest. Grief Ritual have also supported Knocked Loose, Terror, Gatecreeper, END, Fuming Mouth, Heriot, Wiegedood, Ithaca, Inter Arma, and Pupil Slicer during this busy period, passing the one-hundred-show marker in early 2024.