Collapse Under The Empire
is an instrumental/post-rock duo from Hamburg, Germany. They formed 2007,when Chris Burda and Matthew Jason got together to develop their own music under the name of COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE. They both released the first four songs for the EP "PAINTBALL" in summer 2008.

After that they came up with their self-produced debut album "SYSTEMBREAKDOWN",which was recorded in their own studio and saw the light as a digital album of day in spring 2009. The songs were praised by critics and audience alike and brought the young band a lot of attention on the scene.

For the second album the band were signed by the indie label Sister Jack.The new album "FIND A PLACE TO BE SAFE" will be out over Cargo Records on Nov. 27th 2009. It was mastered by Michael Schwabe (Einstürzende Neubauten,Die Toten Hosen, Beatsteaks) at Monoposto Studio. The appropriate single Crawling was pre--publicized on Sept.