Label: Metal Blade
Release Date: 01/23/2026
Variant: Orange Smoke Vinyl LP

Frail Words Collapse is often regarded as a landmark album in the metalcore genre, blending melodic death metal influences with aggressive hardcore. In 2020, Loudwire named the album one of the top-25 best metalcore albums of all time. Frail Words Collapse features several re-recorded songs from the band’s earlier releases, including the songs “Forever”, “The Beginning” and “The Pain of Separation” from the split album As I Lay Dying / American Tragedy, as well as a re-recording of the song “Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier,” which appeared on the band’s debut studio album Beneath the Encasing of Ashes.

TRACKLIST

94 Hours
Falling Upon Deaf Ears
Forever
Collision
Distance Is Darkness
Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier
Undefined
A Thousand Steps
The Beginning
Song 10
The Pain of Separation
Elegy