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Brace For Impact

by Colony Drop

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heterodoxies A unique take on crossover thrash, with intriguing elements of other genres as well (NWOBHM, D-beat among others). Lots of great hooks and some memorable choruses. Can't go wrong with Gundam references either! A 2023 favorite for sure! Favorite track: The Guillotine.
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Tom's Reviews I had such a hard time picking a favorite track, so I chose the one the reminded me of Static-X's current singer 😅 and it's a badass song too.
But if you like Metal that takes influences from all of the greatest 80s Thrash bands, then this is the album for you. They even throw a bit of Iron Maiden into the mix for flavor! Favorite track: Patient Xero.
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pantherpilsner That last track sounds like 1992 Biohazard making a thrash metal song for anime sci-fi dorks (guilty as charged), and everything else is some weird kind of "Iron Maiden playing crossover" stuff that...just works, somehow. Buy it! Favorite track: (MS-07) The Gouf.
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Brace for impact! The human race’s legacy is naught but slaughter, Bellum omnium contra omnis. A legacy of persecution is our center of gravity. There is no hidden history, The human race’s nature is plain to see: Each unexplored horizon, one more potential colony. Remaking the world in our image. Engaging Operation: British. Death from above to our masters. Flip the script and grind the bastards down. Death from above to our masters and their supremacist sympathizers: Population galvanizing, blood and soil just piss and shit, Evaluating all for its worth, Making sure there’s no heaven on earth, Unrepentant, one in their pride. That’s why we drop the colony. [Chorus] Drop it. You’re goddamn right; tonight we make the colony drop. Let’s show them what we’re made of, Let’s show them what we’ve got. You’re goddamn right; tonight we make the colony drop. Now show me what you’re made of Now show me everything you’ve got. Brace for impact!
2.
Remade 04:01
Half a chance, half a prayer. No life left to lead. Put in irons without cause. Railroaded to bleed. Flesh fused with machine. Butchery without seam. Here in the punishment factory, You suffer under the blade. Here where the sentence is handed down, You will be remade. Steel and steam, soil and sweat, Concrete overhead. Toil and ache, work and break, Just to be repaired. [Chorus] Identity redefined. Joint ligaments realigned. Basic dignity denied. Remade over and over.
3.
One hundred fists, one thousand miles an hour. Pugilists with supernatural power. How bizarre, we’re burning platinum like a shooting star. D-beat adventure. One hundred hits against the vampire’s kiss. Crusading with the Major Arcana. You know we never buckle; We’re bursting through endless blockades with bloody knuckles. [Chorus] Brothers and sisters in arms, we stand. Fighting hand to hand, we stand. Brothers and sisters in arms, we stand. Fighting hand to hand, we stand against the world. It’s a D-beat adventure.
4.
Supplicant 03:46
Pale traveler from a distant star, Well-met upon your arrival. Requiring my body for pleasure, As well as for survival. Sing this perversion. I lay me down into this bed of flesh. Innumerable tentacles now unfurl, Caress away my uselessness. Foul proboscis insert. Flora and fauna invert. Reproductive system usurped. Paraphiliac ascendant, Now spreading over the earth. Behold the master’s return, forever. In honor, my body bent to your device, I offer forth my free will as a human sacrifice. I’ll be your willing supplicant. Fulfillment of long-dormant fantasy, Forevermore entwined, your supplicant I’ll be. Forevermore your willing supplicant. [Chorus]
5.
A castle full of traps bids you test your fate. Corridors of blades within its walls await. Maintaining command over the wasteland. Where its shadow falls, they keep the knives at hand. Spikes under trap doors triggered by false locks. All maps are useless inside this puzzle box. An endless hall of mirrors. Nonlinear trajectory. Within the reach of treasure an endless tomb waits for thee. [Chorus] Buried knowledge of ages. Aristotle's lost comedies. Cobwebs entomb the pages, join them now in history. All before you failed, Now you will join them. Inside the clockwork grip, They lie torn limb from limb.
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Heartfelt 00:55
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Heartwrench 02:45
I recall the sunrise as if it was weaponized. Eroticism dressed the stage, and anatomy inflamed. My judgment was compromised, But who among us hasn't walked that line, Just to find every protest thwarted, And wound up a statistic unreported? It’s time that I take back control over my soul and my flesh. I won’t shut up and roll over, I’d rather feel my heart wrench. My body once done with, Then came sunset over a sharper world without relief. Ten years of grinding teeth. I would have preferred demise. Instead, I got the rest of my life cast aside and branded a liar. But I survived. [Chorus] And when I see myself nude in the mirror, Disgusted at the shadow cast by lust, I know since then that I've become only stronger, And I vow to set my heart ablaze. [Chorus]
8.
Patient Xero 02:45
A veil of contagion cocoons these silent streets. Death brought thee flowers, sickbeds and rosaries. We consecrate each surface, anoint each one with bleach, And then burn the corpses of those we cannot treat. The world is less cell structure, And growing viral load. In soil called “population,” A single solemn rose. My body is a garden, Where I hope nothing grows. Patient Xero. And from the House of Usher, Our so-called leaders speak. Unto a nationwide bargain-bin mortuary. They plan to spend their futures in Hermetically sealed rooms, But the best shelter money can buy Is just an overpriced tomb. [Chorus] Sick.
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I was raised beyond the gates, Where all they teach is sedition and hate. Cash money upfront, Down payments to the country club, Sports cars and polo shirts. Taxes drop and nobody gets hurt. “Play to win, if you know what I mean.” I think it’s time to bring back the guillotine. How am I supposed to live my life When everyone I love deserves to die? Say your prayers when dinner is served. The hell we believe in we deserve. Money changers in their Sunday best. We’ve cut their fucking heads off for less. We’ve cut heads off for less. How am I supposed to live my life? Everyone I love deserves to die. Now bring it back. Bring back the guillotine.
10.
The Beast. Memories of bloodshed. Memories of towers crumbling. Rally ‘round the leader. Rally ‘round a crooked finger. Party lines and barbed wire. Grievances that demand relief. Fantasies of bloodshed, Sworn now to be released. We fantasize the beast outside the firelight. Worship at the altar. Ego alter; nation falter. Contingencies, conscription, Military mass-mobilization. Party lines and barbed wire. Documentation now unsealed. Enemies around us. Enemies among us now revealed. [Chorus] We fantasize the beast inside the heart of man; The coldest place to hide.
11.
War is in session. New ordinance, secret mission: Precipitate your fall from grace. Hunted down by the pilot ace. The Gouf. Fresh off the assembly line, Principality’s pride. Under the command of Ramba Ral, We’ve come to watch your stronghold fall. Close-quarters ground combat optimized mobile suit: The Gouf. Beta-four heat sword and shield, Seventy-five tons of Zeon steel. Five-barrel machine gun hand, Locked and loaded for the final stand. The Gouf. Heat rod with shocking power, Top speed sixty miles-per-hour. Design rewarding tenacity. Massive killing capacity. Close-quarters ground combat optimized mobile suit: The Gouf. MS-07. The Gouf.

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A screaming comes across the sky: Brace for Impact, the shredding debut album by Seattle, WA crossover thrashers Colony Drop. United in rebellion in the seedy underbelly of a technological megalopolis, the quintet strike like an assassin’s blade—with speed, precision, and style. Written in hermetic seclusion with pugilistic discipline, Brace for Impact is a testament to the songwriting-first ethos that made metal great in the first place: catchy riffs, vocal hooks, blistering solos, no bullshit.


Though their sound is rooted in thrash, Colony Drop swears allegiance to no one genre or style. The group rejects contemporary metal’s quantized tedium and pizza party purists’ navel-gazing nostalgia in favor of a no-holds-barred approach. Instead, Brace for Impact celebrates its members’ diverse passions. Stoner doom, D-beat crust, melodic death metal, classic prog, post-punk, NWOBHM, and Japanese “Burning Spirits”-style hardcore are some of the flavors Colony Drop brazenly explores in this concise 35-minute showcase of musicianship and storytelling.


Formed in 2019, Colony Drop built their sound around the shredding guitars of Benjamin Burton and Ryan Moon (TURIAN), whose complementary-yet-distinct solo styles hearken back to the tradition of dueling duos: Hanneman/King, Denner/Shermann, and even Downing/Tipton. The pummeling rhythm section of drummer Eric Harris and bassist Ari Rosenschein (STAHV) supports their fretboard pyrotechnics, hence the band’s motto: “High Speed, Twin Lead.”


Colony Drop is fronted by vocalist Joseph Schafer, whose electric growl delivers a litany of sci-fi nightmares and countercultural anthems inspired by the weird fiction of authors including China Mieville, as well as classic anime like Mobile Suit: Gundam, from which the band derives its name. This grandiose vision of the techno-apocalypse is reflected in Brace for Impact’s bold cover art by Matt Stikker.


The result is a true album in the classic style: eleven knockout punches, each with its own distinct identity, each catchy enough to be a single. Together, they paint a kaleidoscopic picture of a mechanized future using sounds from rock’s glorious past. As the title suggests, Brace for Impact is a clear statement of intent: Colony Drop is here to bring back the guillotine and watch your strongholds fall.

For fans of Iron Age, Power Trip, Black Breath, and High Command.

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released August 25, 2023

Produced by Nicholas Wilbur and Colony Drop
Recorded and Engineered by Nicholas Wilbur at The Unknown Studios and by Ryan Moon at Buster Room Recordings in 2022
Mixed & Mastered by Alex Farrar at Drop of Sun Studios in 2022

Colony Drop is:
Ari Rosenschein – Bass, Backing Vocals
Benjamin Burton – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
Eric Harris – Drums
Joseph Schafer – Lead Vocals, FX
Ryan Moon – Lead Guitar, Keyboard

All Music by Colony Drop
All Lyrics by Joseph Schafer and Colony Drop

Artwork & Cover Layout by Matt Stikker

Logo by Emily McCafferty
Photography by Chris Schanz

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HIGH SPEED TWIN LEAD.

Lead Guitar (R): B. Burton
Drums: Eric Harris
Lead Guitar (L): Ryan Moon
Bass: Ari Rosenschein
Vox: Joseph Schafer

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