Khroma – Collapse

Releasedate: 28-03-2014; Label: Inverse Records
By: Sabine van Gameren

Khroma is a formation from Finland making Experimental Metal. The band established in 2010 and released a debut album about a year later. Anno 2014 they return with a follow up: “Collapse” is out now.

Several Findustry performances, a great display at Tuska festival 2013 and European tours have been in the past for this band already. It certainly aroused our interest for this release, especially after the interview we did with them about it last summer while they were still working on it.
When starting it you easily swift into a sort of subconscious in which you experience a variety of events brought by Khroma. Electronic elements combined with that sharp edgy vocal impression of diverse causes and anger. The band likes to play with your mind, the tempo is in it but on the way you constantly get teased with breaks. When you get a chance to release the tension it’s hotter as hell and the energy that’s been stuck inside you of you will come out.

The whole is well thought and you can expect no song to be too similar and putting the control of your expectations in their hands is a relatively safe trip to do so, because the songs always return to a sound that can only be described as ‘Khroma’.
Their persistency on details is paying off, in the little corners of their sound you keep enlarging your listening experience playtime after playtime. The album does not get boring, a thing not every band can bring nowadays. Instead Khroma provides you with a new addiction that no authority has built a rehab-center for yet. It’s called “Collapse” and you are about to get hooked the moment you have it in your hands.

Line up:
Janne Aulavuori – Guitars, backing vocals
Antti Honka – Drums
Maarik Leppä – Bass
Mikko Merilinna – Guitars/Keys
Riku Rinta-Seppälä – Vocals/Electronics
Joni Tanskala – Guitars

Tracklist: 01. Collapse 02. Keep You Whole 03. A Vessel To Steer 04. Panopticon 05. Cypher 06. Shards Reflect 07. Distorted 08. EXIF Data 09. The Martyr Acts

Links:
Khroma Facebook