A new review for Bent and Broken from Morpheus Music.
... The unity of Bent and Broken is quite a coup considering the diversity of the styles encountered - gutsy, plastic, digital mangling; harsh industrial electronica juxtaposed with synth washes and feminine vocal expressions; dreamy gothic nocturnes and fractured cyber-lullabies. Bent and Broken is perhaps the ideal introduction for anyone not yet familiar with Collide.
Check out the full review here. Thanks to Paul from Morpheus Music!
"The first half Bent kicks off with some of its most impressive tracks, beginning with an ominous, throbbing remix of "Mind Games" from Counting to Zero (which is an excellent single in its original form) by cEvin Key and Skinny Puppy collaborator Ken “HiWatt” Marshall; "Orgy,” an eerie, serpentine cover of a tune originally created by Cure frontman Robert Smith for his side project The Glove, featuring some of kaRIN's best vocal work; and an ultra-cool cosmic cover of Queen's "She Makes Me,” based on a solid foundation of acoustic guitar and now one of my all-time Collide faves. Another standout is the title track, which appears here for the first time, and pulses with the same dark energy of the opening cut, but with a lighter, more inquisitive touch..."
Thanks to Gregory Burkart and Fear.net, for the great review of Bent and Broken... especially nice, on this Halloween. Read the whole review here.
"...The sound is expansive and full of beauty and resonates long after...It’s pure reveling in the material making it as loud and bombastic as it can get."
"Across the board it’s pretty much top notch production value. Bent and Broken will make Collide fans go back and excavate and re-evaluate previous works in their original incarnation to discover what seeds are there that caught the remixers’ ear in the first place. Very much recommended."
Check out the entire review here. Thanks so much to Steven Hurst for being the very first person to pen a review!!
Although the official release date for our new album, Bent and Broken is Oct. 30th, we've sent out all of the copies from our Kickstarter campaign, as well as pre-orders from our website.
The CD, as well as immediate download is now available from our website. It is also available on Amazon.com, and should be on iTunes shortly.
Thanks so much to everyone who has tweeted us, or posted on Facebook, about getting your packages. We're glad you are liking everything!!
Thank-you to everyone who contributed to our Kickstarter, and who pre-ordered from our website, to help with the costs of putting out our new album, Bent and Broken
If you contributed more than $40 on Kickstarter, (or ordered the CD from our store with the thank-you list option) then we've added your name to the thank-you list which will be printed on the CD artwork.
We just started a kickstarter for our Bent and Broken release. Lots of great rewards including getting your name on the thank-yous on the cd artwork. Check out the full details here
kaRIN was really honored to have a chance to write lyrics and do guest vocals on the upcoming Tweaker CD!! The song is called Grounded and is VERY close to her heart and you're going to love it.
The New CD called "CALL THE TIME ETERNITY" is now available for presale. The release date is Oct 23rd.
Order here:
http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist/tweaker
Speaking of Tweaker, in other awesome news...Chris Vrenna is one of the special guest remixers for our own upcoming CD Bent & Broken!!!!!
We've been a little silent with any news coming out of the Collide camp lately, but don't think it's because we haven't been busy. It's just because we've been in the studio making lots of new things for you.
The big news is that our remix album is coming along, and is in the final stages of being completed! The title of the album is Bent and Broken. It features songs from both Counting to Zero, as well as Two Headed Monster. We aren't going to give away all of our secrets yet, but the album is going to be a double CD, (or extra big download) with 26 tracks.
We posted this on our facebook page in December, but somehow, we forgot to get it on our own news page...oops.
Guess who's on the cover of the new Carpe Nocturne magazine? We'll give you a hint--it's kaRIN!! You can download the issue right here: http://carpenocturnemagazine.com/ The whole magazine is over 200 pages, and the Collide interview/article is 10 pages long!! Go check it out!!
We have a new video for you of "Bending and Floating". It was directed by the very talented Edward Mavskegg, (who also made our video preview for "In the Frequency". We hope you love it.
The video will probably also answer a few of questions that a lot of you have been asking...Can kaRIN fly a spaceship? How did Collide start? Is kaRIN an alien? All of your questions will now be answered.
We got an email last week from MTV, letting us know that our video "Mind Games" could possibly get into rotation next week, IF we get enough votes on their site. We're only up against FOUR other bands, so we can do this! We haven't made a video in quite a while, so it's pretty exciting news. If you're tired of boy bands or rap taking over, now is your chance for your voice to be heard!
We have a brand new interview up on Attention Deficit Delirium, thanks to Bryan Reesman for the interview.
We talk about some of our music placements, the business of music, the return of The Secret Meeting, and turtles.
Check out the entire interview here.
It's the New Year! and we're sure that there are a lot of things on your mind, with everything going on in the world.
One of the questions that you've probably been wondering about, is what are Statik's top 10 favorite horror movies. Well, we have the answer for you right here. Readers beware, there are a lot of zombie films on the list...so if you don't like zombies, just move on. Thanks to Jonathan Barkan and Bloody Disgusting.com (Your source for horror.)
We are still getting reviews in for Counting to Zero. Here's a new little one by Sonya Brown of Music Artery.
Check it out right here.
We have a new review from one our favorite sites, Re Gen Magazine.
After reading the review, I guess we just do what we do, but we do it well.
(Counting to Zero)... is full of the same rich production and performance we’ve come to expect and love....There are those artists and bands whose sound is so distinguished and identifiable that you immediately know what to expect when a new album is released. In some cases, this is a detriment indicative of a lack of progress or exploration, while in others, it is simply the musical DNA that binds the whole of the artist’s output together to form a cohesive path of development and style.
Thanks to Ilker Yücel for the write up, and check out the full review here.
We have some great news to finish out the new year with. We have a new, unreleased song, called "Intruder", that will be appearing on the Underworld Awakening Soundtrack, due out Jan. 17th, next month.
We have some very good company on the soundtrack, including The Cure, Ministry, Evanescence, Combichrist, and 8mm. It was one of our goals for the year, to make it on the soundtrack, so we couldn't be happier.
