The album begins with a powerful, knock you off your feet, wanna play this while drag racing song called Violet's Dance. I conjuor up indescribable images of power and electricity when this song plays upoin my ears. "Violet's Dance is the feeling of my own perspective of life," says kaRIN, singer/songwriter of Collide. "I have always been able to see my life from the inside as well as objectively from the outside as an observer, so that I am both passenger and driver...ride...restless violet's dancing."

This is Collide's first album, released back in 1996 with an already formed personality, where most bands don't really find themselves till their second or third album this Calafornia based dynamic duo come across as if they have been playing for decades.

The most memorable tracks besides Violet's Dance are Pandora's Box which kaRIN says "conveys the emotion of knowing something is bad or harmful to you, but wanting it anyway." and Dreams and Illusions was the first song kaRIN and Statik (who does all the wonderful "noise") did togeather ". . . before there was a Collide, or even the thought of starting a band together." kaRIN explains. "It's the feeling of wanting something that you can't attain."

Beneath the Skin is a nearly flawless album which is a phenominal achievement for a first release. The song speaks of sorrow, need, passion and power. it will pluck at the strings in your heart and will keep your mind scanning images of your own past. "The basic theme of anything I do artistically is a subconscious flow of what's going on in my life." kaRIN tells me. "I like to channel through vocals and words... a diary of sorts, pin pointing my thoughts and emotions. A lot of what I was actually going though at the time was the sickness of someone really close to me."

Be sure and check out the official website and the new Club Collide now with over 60 members.