Release Date: March 23rd 2026. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD.
Collapsing Walls - Tracklisting
1.Collapsing Walltz 08:07
2.15 Bricks 06:21
3.F.U.B.A.R. 08:18
4.Crumbling Down 10:11
5.Against the Wall 09:07
Members
Guitar: Martin Zaugg
Bass: Patrick Lorenzon
Drums: Roman Bolliger
Review
Collapsing Walls is the third full length from Instrumental Doom/Stoner Metallers Skullpriest where they explore some pretty cool and cosmic based passages within the whole album. The album is forty one minutes long and told across five tracks. Each track is bursting with its own central story that allows Skullpriest to explore some gloomy Post-Rock landscapes which is set against a highly aggressive style of Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal, With this being a purely instrumental record, Skullpriest are quite adept at adding areas of Psych, Space and Ambient sounds into the mix.
The album can be wholly aggressive one moment and beautifully sedate the next with Skullpriest never afraid to explore their Post-Rock, Post-Metal and Doomed Out themes especially within the excellent tracks of Collapsing Waltz, 15 Bricks and F.U.B.A.R. with a slight musical identity crisis emerging from the more experimental elements that comes across through the whole record. If you dig the likes of PELICAN, Karma To Burn, BELZEBONG and Clouds Taste Satanic then Skullpriest have all those bases covered with the music slightly being quite gritty and progressive along the way.
Skullpriest do play with a free-flowing style of music that becomes almost “JAM ORIENTATED” but this allows the record to become quite eclectic and freakishly heavy in ways you don’t expect especially on 15 Bricks, F.U.B.A.R. and Crumbling Down. Wait till you hear the jazzy and space rock interludes that Skullpriest inject into the mix before applying an Atmospheric Sludge makeover that adds a level of OVER THE TOP crazed attitude to the whole which is quite hard to ignore.
Collapsing Walls is a superb album and if you’re a longtime fan of the Instrumental Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal scene then I can’t recommend this album highly enough. Just be prepared for Skullpriest to try different things and you’ll have a great time. There’s some highly inventive use of different sonic experimentation which only adds to the whole unique experience that Skullpriest pull off great originality before everything is said and done.
Words by Steve Howe
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