These wicked monsters that surround us, wearing human faces, with endless, gnawing eyes peering from behind masks of pallid skin. Clandestine, they walk among us, mocking our humanity.
They! Who put devils in our wallets and demons in our heads. Our bosses and kings. Our prophets and priests. We are imprisoned in this world with them. Their single minded pursuit: to turn us into them.
Parasitical, they delight in vitiating the very engines of our dignity. Imperiously demanding sacrifice, exhorting us to saw off pieces of ourselves in homage to them, as we futilely chase their generosity and foolishly hope to earn their empathy, the very things they sold to become the creatures that they are.
An excellent find and a wonderful addition to the melodeath/doom of the world. We can never have enough music of this quality. Brett (Lascaille's Shroud / Soulmass)
Weirdly, BREATHS reminds me of Silverstein or maybe Emery, at their best, taking and elevating a genre that I have a huge amount of nostalgia for into something really excellent. An absolute banger. 𝚡̲adaa
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021