It’s The End Of The WORLD As We Know It
Post-rockers Coldbones are making a bold return with their strangely prescient second album, The Cataclysm. Drummer Max Parr and guitarist Jordan Gilbert reveal the real-life events behind their apocalyptic concept and how working with an artist helped shape its sound.
Words: Alex Lynham
When they started working out how to follow their electrifying debut LP, Where It All Began, UK progressive post-rockers Coldbones were faced with a difficult task. Cutting through the potential indecision, drummer Max Parr brought an idea to the rest of the band.
“A couple of years ago, in the summer of 2018, I approached the guys and said, ‘Look, I think we should do a concept about the world ending as we know it.’ I wanted to stay away from that post-apocalypse [as seen in other fiction], and just go for a whole new cataclysmic event that shapes the world in an entirely different way. We used past events and works of fiction to shape these two big catastrophes that are occurring on the album.”
Coldbones, L-R: Jordan Gilbert, Max Parr and Nick Suchak.
Images: Victor Kovachev
The concept of what was to become The Cataclysm was welcomed positively, and the band set to writing, enlisting the help of artist Alice Urbino to create the album artwork early in the process.