Artist: Black BreathAlbum: Heavy BreathingLabel:

Southern LordRelease Date: March 30Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): BuyDownload:

“Escape From Death”In terms of local and national buzz and sheer momentum, Black Breath are as essential to local metal as Shabazz Palaces are to local hip-hop. The new album is an almost-overwhelming juggernaut of powerful old school riffage and hardcore muscle that rushes out of the gate without an ounce of secular subtlety on opening track “Black Sin (Spit On The Cross)” and doesn’t let up until the last, strangled gasp of “Wewhocannotbenamed.”Black Breath play Neumo’s on May 13 with Coalesce and Lewd Acts.