Breach

Venom (Relapse)
by Tim Den

More quality (heavy) music from Sweden, the country that never fails to impress. Breach sounds like they’ve been influenced as much by later, metal-er Earth Crisis as by later, more-accessible Napalm Death. I suspect that they listen to a bit of Neurosis and Eyehategod too, since they don’t exactly sound like cheery types. Dark, chaotic, with crushing guitars (that treat themselves not so much as riff-producers, but punctuation marks) and some noisecore gibberish. Mean fucking album with a pretty damn evil mood.
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