Out today is another great album of remixes from Beauty in Chaos, called Signs in the Heavens, Reality Upside Down. Statik did a remix of the song “The Devil You Know”, (featuring Kat Leon), which is song #2 on the 2CD set.

This is Statik’s 5th remix for the band. Previous remixes include “Grasp the Stars”, “20th Century Boy” (Featuring Al Jourgensen), “Heliotrope” (Featuring Betsy Martin), and “Stranger” (Featuring Kat Leon)

Thanks to Regen Magazine, Ilker Yücel, and Linda R. Bess (Not2bmesdw) for reviewing The Darkness Forever

Anyone who hears Collide can’t help but be drawn in. kaRIN’s sultry alternative pop vocals contrast with Statik’s melodic, scratchy noise, further bending the genre delineation that streaming services require artists to select when distributing their music. The Darkness Forever doesn’t have to rely upon kaRIN to carry the weight of being a sassy sort of Siouxsie Sioux meets Gwen Stafani songstress; with the release of instrumental versions of these cover tunes on a separate album, Statik’s industrially bent guitars, arpeggiated chords, and stomping beats saunter and slither from track to track, never ceasing to scratch an itch that many listeners probably didn’t realize they had. Echoing daylight piano melodies defy the distant apparition of a reverberating pulse when cranked to full volume. Dare I say, these instrumentals would fare well in the dark, alternative karaoke bar of your living room.

The mood of the album opens with an orchestral, trancelike march to Portishead’s “Wandering Star,” before an unapologetic version of “Heart-Shaped Box” drones on pretty compositionally true to Nirvana’s original. The unique choice of slouchy-sounding tom toms stood out in “Criminal,” maybe sounding too close to the sound of a worn out djembe drum. The stupefaction award of cover song choices on this album would go to “Rocketman.” Many artists have covered the beloved Elton John song over the years – even PNAU’s mashup version “Cold Heart” made a poppy splash in 2021. This writer won’t speak for anyone else, but any version of that song conjures a forlorn sense of permanent grief every time I hear it.

As the duo had done with 2009’s These Eyes Before, Collide manages to create a fuller experience of the originals from one recognizable track to the next. Whether any of the tunes on The Darkness Forever hit a personal note for either kaRIN or Statik, I confess that I find these cover versions refreshing in a gargle-with-nails kind of way, especially as both Muse and Peter Gabriel are two of my favorite artists.

As 2024 comes to a close, we'd like to thank the amodelofcontrol.com site for including us in their top 50 albums of the year. We came in at a respectable #39. It seems to get harder every year to get press for our releases, so this means a lot to us!

We’re not going to lie, it’s been tougher than every getting press to cover our latest release, so we’re happy to have a new review to post. Peter Marks reviews The Darkness Forever on the website Santa Sangre.

“Channeled layers which appear on these tracks wickedly end slipping back into an invisible reality; those enchanted themes just do not end from Statik and kaRIN, they’re connection only grows stronger never given up something I wish others would hold onto as well: imagination. Staying on such a path is not an easy option, thank you so much for refusing to give up!”

Read the full review here

Today is the day!!  Happy Release Day!!!! Wooooooooooo

Just wanted to thank each one of you that are part of this release in some way.  Even just being here counts.

All orders have been shipped as of yesterday! All downloads have been sent and it is now up on all streaming platforms!

We hope you love it!!

After you have had a chance to listen, we would love to hear from you!!

Much love,

Collide people

We are very excited to announce that we have a brand new release called The Darkness Forever!! This new release marks album #14 for us!!!

It is a cover album! We know we have already done a cover album with These Eyes Before, but that was 15 years ago!!

For each song, we tried to channel the original artist, while giving it our own slant and energy. We love these songs, and we hope you will love them too!!!

The official release date is July 16th!!! All orders will ship on, or before that date. (Note: as of 7/09/24, it looks like physical orders will ship around 7/19/24, as our CDs are taking a bit longer than expected to get from our manfacturer.)

BUNDLES and PRE-SALE ITEMS

The first 250 physical orders will be signed, and come with a free signed poster (folded) and a signed card because we love you!

We are offering special T-shirt and CD Bundles. During the pre-sale, with each album sale (physical, or download), we will be sending you a code with your physical order, where you can download the files from Bandcamp, in whatever format(s) you desire. (MP3 V0, MP3 320, FLAC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, ALAC, WAV, AIFF). Sample rates up to 96k.

We are also offering an Instrumental Download version as an option in some of the bundles.

For the T-shirts, we are only doing a very limited amount—so if you want one —now would be the time.

For any orders over $75, get free USPS First Class shipping, by using the Discount Code “FreeShip75”, during checkout. (You have to enter it after you enter your shipping information)

Here is the track listing:

1. Wandering Stars (originally by Portishead)

2. Heart-Shaped Box (originally by Nirvana)

3. Half Light (originally by TomandAndy with Low)

4. Supermassive Black Hole (originally by Muse)

5. Unholy (originally by Sam Smith)

6. Criminal (originally by Fiona Apple)

7. Broken Machine (originally by Nothing But Thieves)

8. Human Behavior (originally by Björk)

9. Games Without Frontiers (originally by Peter Gabriel)

10. Sweet Jane (originally by The Velvet Underground)
11. Rocket Man (originally by Elton John)

The best way to help support us is by buying directly from our website. That’s the only place we will be offering the bundles before the release date.

We will need your help to get the word out there!!! Tell a friend, tell ten friends!!! Write a review, like, or share a post, write a blog, post on your Tik Tok and so on—use your imagination. There are many ways to help.

So, if our music is, or has ever been important to you, this is the way to let us know, and every bit helps. We even have a donation button if you want to go that way.

Much love,
Collide
kaRIN & Statik

cover of the Sam Smith/Kim Petras song

Oh YES we did!!

We fell in love with this song, (and with Sam Smith & Kim Petras who created it), and we felt moved to do our own version.

We hope you love it!!

To all of the people who don’t fit in...for ANY reason

Thank you for making the world a better place!!

Thanks so much to Sam Smith & Kim Petras!

Their art, their truth & their bravery to be themselves struck us.

Love, compassion, and understanding for each other is always the way forward, and it is getting increasingly scary and dangerous in a world that tries to pressure people who do not fit into particular molds.

We will be donating a portion of the proceeds of this song to The Trevor Project.

The Trevor Project provides support services to LGBTQ young people.

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