EP
Breed to Breathe
Breed to Breathe is an EP by Napalm Death, released on 17 November 1997 through Earache Records on CD. It is filed under death metal, the style the Birmingham band had pushed to its extremes since their early records.
It arrived in the same year as the album Inside the Torn Apart, and just before Words From the Exit Wound in 1998, so it sits in a busy stretch of the band's late-nineties output, following Diatribes in 1996. For anyone tracing the group's path between the early grind of Scum and the later records, it's a short, useful stop along the way.
Breed to Breathe: tracklist and credits
6 tracks · 20:49Tracklist
- 1Breed to BreatheShane Embury3:16
- 2All Intensive PurposesMitch Harris3:24
- 3Stranger NowShane Embury and Mitch Harris3:47
- 4Bled DryJesse Pintado and Shane Embury2:22
- 5Time Will ComeMitch Harris and Shane Embury3:24
- 6Suffer the ChildrenMick Harris and Barney Greenway4:36
- Produced by
- Colin Richardson
- Recorded at
- Framework Studios, Lincoln, England
- Labels
- Earache Records, Earache
- Length
- 20:49
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How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 17 November 1997 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 17 November 1997 | |
| Wikidata | 1997 | |
| UK / Europe release | 17 November 1997 | earliest UK or European date |
2 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 November 1997 | XE | Earache Records | 5018615118558 | original |
| 25 November 1997 | XE | Earache Records | 745316018522 | other |
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| coverartarchive | 600×597 | upscaled |