Breed to Breathe
{{Use British English|date=October 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Breed to Breathe
| type = EP
| artist = Napalm Death
| cover = Napalm_BreedtoBreathe.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1997|11|17|df=y}}
| recorded = {{Start date|1997}}
| venue =
| studio = Framework Studios, Lincoln, England
| genre = {{hlist|Death metal|grindcore|groove metal}}
| length = {{Duration|m=19|s=02}}
| label = Earache
| producer = Colin Richardson
| prev_title = Inside the Torn Apart
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = Bootlegged in Japan
| next_year = 1998
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Chronicles of Chaos
| rev1Score = 8/10{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-717 |title=Napalm Death – Breed To Breathe |first=Adrian |last=Bromley |date=5 February 1997 |work=Chronicles of Chaos |accessdate=26 October 2014}}
| rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev2score = 6/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=306}}
| rev3 = In Music We Trust
| rev3Score = Favorable{{cite web |url=http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/06r09.html |title=Napalm Death – Breed to Breathe EP |author=Ollie |date=March 1998 |publisher=In Music We Trust |accessdate=18 October 2014}}
}}
Breed to Breathe is an EP by English extreme metal band Napalm Death, released in 1997 through Earache on CD.{{cite web |url=http://www.earache.com/catalogue/mosh185.php |title=Napalm Death 'Breed to Breathe' |work=Earache.com |publisher=Earache |accessdate=18 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923232602/http://www.earache.com/catalogue/mosh185.php |archive-date=23 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}
Release
The album is printed as CD Extra and contains a data track which features the video clip for the song "Breed to Breathe" and other band-related content such as a discography and a band history. Due to the depiction of graphic material the video clip prompted the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft, the German motion picture rating system organization, to ban it in Germany and even to obtain a court decision that declared the clip illegal.{{cite web |url=http://askearache.blogspot.de/2009/12/napalm-death-breed-to-breathe-clip-is.html |title=Napalm Death 'Breed to Breathe' clip is illegal in Germany |first=Digby |last=Pearson |date=27 December 2009 |work=Ask Earache |accessdate=18 October 2014}} Many media around the world also refused to feature the clip.{{cite web |url=http://earachenews.blogspot.de/2011/01/napalm-death-inside-torn-apartwords.html |title=Napalm Death – 'Inside the Torn Apart/Words from the Exit Wound/Breed to Breathe' 3CD box set available tomorrow in North America |first=Digby |last=Pearson |date=24 January 2011 |work=Earache News |accessdate=18 October 2014}}
Both bands that deliver a Napalm Death song on the sixth track are winners of a demo cover version competition{{Cite AV media notes |title=Breed to Breathe |others=Napalm Death |year=1997 |type=back cover |publisher=Earache |location=Nottingham, England}} that Napalm Death had launched in summer 1997 and limited to bands without a recording contract.{{cite journal |last=Christe |first=Ian |date=August 1997 |title=Riffs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2iwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48 |journal=CMJ New Music Monthly |publisher=College Media |issue=48 |page=48 |location=Great Neck, New York |issn=1074-6978 |access-date=16 January 2016}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| title1 = Breed to Breathe
| lyrics1 = Shane Embury
| music1 = Embury
| length1 = 3:15
| title2 = All Intensive Purposes
| lyrics2 = Mitch Harris
| music2 = Harris
| length2 = 3:23
| title3 = Stranger Now
| lyrics3 = Embury
| music3 = Harris, Embury
| length3 = 3:47
| title4 = Bled Dry
| lyrics4 = Embury
| music4 = Jesse Pintado
| length4 = 2:21
| title5 = Time Will Come
| lyrics5 = Embury
| music5 = Harris
| length5 = 3:22
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = US release
| title6 = Greed Killing
| note6 = Performed by Impending Doom
| lyrics6 = Embury, Harris
| music6 = Harris
| length6 = 2:54
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = European release
| title6 = Suffer the Children
| note6 = Performed by Fatality
| lyrics6 = Mark Greenway
| music6 = Harris
| length6 = 4:34
}}
Personnel
=Napalm Death=
- Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals
- Jesse Pintado – guitar
- Mitch Harris – guitar
- Shane Embury – bass
- Danny Herrera – drums
=Technical personnel=
- Colin Richardson – production
- Paul Siddens – recording
- Andy Sneap – mixing
- Tony Wooliscroft – band photograph
- Antz White – design, layout
- Graham Humphreys – design, layout
- Scalp – multimedia construction
References
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