Genre: Crustcore
Origin: USA
Released: 2008
Website: Born/Dead
Label: Prank Records
Uploaded: 15.01.09

Man, if you thought Born/Dead kicked ass before, wait until you’ve heard The final collapse. It’s as powerful as ever, as fierce as ever before and easily carries some of their most hard-hitting melodies.
Now don’t be alarmed by the word ‘melody’, I don’t mean to call this melodic. But, the riffing creates passages of rumbling, rambling wickedness, that sticks. Not a lot of crust acts can brag about their ability to create memorable riffing (‘cause is a lot of cases it just comes off as a wall of sound), but these lads can. It’s of course raw-as-hell, but laced with fierce melodies. And the somewhat thrashy, crusty hardcore is of course backed up by the heavy drumming and the two rough voices taking shifts spewing forth spiteful lyrics of anti-war propaganda and stark images of death.
There’s a touch of the old, classic British and American hardcorepunk, there’s a dose of the Swedish agenda, and it’s presented in the typical Born/Dead way. As a bonus to their new material you also get Assault, originally released on a split 7” with Peligro Social. And take heed as track 7, Sirens, is a Cress cover.

Tracklist:
01. Barricades
02. Years of death
03. Nuance
04. The final collapse
05. Bomb factory
06. Anamnesis
07. Sirens
08. Eulogy
09.
10. Assault