There’s something deeply exhausting about modern life.

Not because people are weak.

But because everything feels heavier than it should.

Prices continue rising. Opportunities become harder to find. Wars erupt across the world while ordinary people deal with the consequences. Social pressure grows louder. Anger becomes easier to access than hope. Everywhere you look, there’s a sense that something is slowly breaking apart.

On their debut EP COLLAPSE, Tebing Tinggi hardcore outfit Nonsens transform that frustration into five tracks of pure sonic violence.

Released in May 2026, the record feels less like a collection of songs and more like a reaction to a world constantly operating under pressure. Loud, aggressive, and unapologetically raw, COLLAPSE captures the anxiety, hostility, and emotional weight of everyday survival through the lens of beatdown hardcore and death metal-infused brutality.

Formed in 2024, Nonsens have quickly established themselves as one of the emerging voices within North Sumatra's underground hardcore movement. Consisting of Fatiha Rinko (vocals), Fakhruddin Ar-Razi (guitar), Rangga Pratama (drums), and Restu Ramadhan (bass), the band embrace a sound built around crushing breakdowns, metallic snare attacks, abrasive guitar work, and an atmosphere that rarely allows listeners to breathe comfortably.

The result is intentionally unforgiving.

Every riff feels sharpened.

Every breakdown lands with destructive force.

Every scream sounds like accumulated frustration finally reaching its limit.

Yet beneath the physical aggression, COLLAPSE reveals itself as something far more reflective than its violent exterior initially suggests.

Throughout the EP, Nonsens explore themes of human instinct, psychological deterioration, social pressure, systemic violence, and the consequences of power wielded without accountability. Rather than approaching these ideas through complicated metaphors, the band communicate them with directness and raw emotion.

Opening tracks “N.E.G” and “Instinct” establish the record's confrontational tone immediately. The songs tap into humanity's more primal impulses, portraying people not as rational beings but as creatures constantly navigating anger, survival, and conflict. The music mirrors that perspective perfectly, charging forward with relentless momentum and little interest in restraint.

Elsewhere, “Hack Murder” pushes the EP into darker territory. The song amplifies the record's sense of chaos and destruction, embracing an atmosphere where violence feels less like an isolated act and more like a symptom of a society losing control of itself.

That sense of societal collapse becomes even more apparent on “Under The Pretext.” Here, Nonsens direct their frustration toward larger systems of power, examining how wars, political interests, and decisions made by global superpowers continue to shape the lives of ordinary people. Economic instability, social uncertainty, and collective anxiety linger throughout the track, turning its aggression into something that feels both personal and political.

By the time “Miserable” arrives, featuring guest vocals from Ryo, the EP reaches its emotional breaking point. The song feels like the aftermath of everything that came before — a portrait of exhaustion, disappointment, and the crushing realization that anger alone cannot fix a broken world. It's a fitting conclusion to a record built around pressure, because collapse rarely arrives without warning. It emerges after strain has accumulated for far too long.

What makes COLLAPSE particularly effective is its refusal to overcomplicate itself.

Nonsens aren't trying to reinvent hardcore.

They're not interested in trends, aesthetics, or manufactured authenticity.

Instead, they focus on delivering raw emotion through music that feels immediate, physical, and honest. The band's anger never sounds performative. Their frustration never feels forced.

Everything comes across as lived experience.

In many ways, COLLAPSE represents exactly what hardcore has always done best: transforming real-world tension into communal release. It takes fear, pressure, disappointment, and rage, then reshapes them into something loud enough for an entire room to feel together.

For a debut release, it's an impressive statement.

Not because it offers solutions.

Not because it promises hope.

But because it documents the reality of a generation carrying more weight than ever and refusing to stay silent about it.

COLLAPSE is pressure given a voice.

And Nonsens make sure that voice is impossible to ignore.