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Long-running Venice Beach, California thrash/punk band SUICIDAL TENDENCIES has scheduled the following dates:

Oct.

Iconic singer Greg Graffin of groundbreaking West Coast punk rock band BAD RELIGION will release his new book, “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God”, co-authored with science journalist Steve Olson, on September 28.

The original bassist for Los Angeles-based punk band Fear has died.

Video footage of Jerry Only, a member of seminal horror-punk band the MISFITS, performing “The Star Spangled Banner” at Seattle’s KeyArena on June 5, 2010 can be viewed below.

US punk rock band Green Day may be debuting their new musical on mainstream Broadway this week, but the trio says they aren’t turning soft.

A few years back, I heard my first Crossover band (Municipal Waste), and have been looking for other bands that partake in the Crossover revolution like they do, but I really haven’t come across many. Recently, I received some material from a band that has not the same sound [as Municipal Waste], but something similar, while strapping on a set of  Thrash/Death-Ass-Kicking boots! Black Breath really took me by surprise with their album, Heavy Breathing.

Hailing from Seattle, Black Breath hasn’t been around for very long in the metal scene, nor have they put out more than one full length album (Heavy Breathing being it), but they have hit hard with this one, leaving a sweet twinge in the back of my head where the sound waves are jacking up my brain! A good portion of the tracks go back and forth between different styles, but all of them seem to include a smattering of Thrash, Death, and Crossover. Songs like “Virus” start out with a Thrash riff that will set any headbangers loins on fire, but include some Death in there as well. Then you have “Escape from Death” which starts out with a Death riff, and mixes some Thrash in there as well. One of the odd-ball tracks that the band seem to have stuck on there, is “Unholy Virgin” which came off the line sounding like straight-up Southern Rock, and continued into a heavy version of a song that could have been written by Stevie Ray Vaughn or something. This was kind of a refreshing sound in the album, but seem to come out of nowhere, and you never heard it again on the album. Altogether, there’s definitely a punk-ish sound in all of the tracks, which kick into the Crossover sound. Even the lead singer sounds like he came straight from Punk band-practice. Not that this is a bad thing!

For Black Breath’s first sound-off into the metal community, they did a very upstanding job. I still see some more good work to come from them in the future, and I hope they have some luck making more good albums with their label, Southern Lord. Their sound and approach to the scene are a welcome reprieve to the same old.

VERY GOOD

Similar Artists: Municipal Waste, As I Lay Dying, Kreator

1.    Black Sin (Spit On the Cross)
2.    Eat the Witch
3.    Escape From Death
4.    I Am Beyond
5.    Virus
6.    Heavy Breathing
7.    Children of the Horn
8.    Fallen
9.    Unholy Virgin
10.    Wewhocannotbenamed

J. Byrum – Drums
Nate McAdams – Vocals
F. Funds – Guitar
Elijah Nelson – Bass
E. Wallace – Guitar

Southern Lord Records

http://www.myspace.com/blackbreath

Review by TONY

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