Breed to Breathe

Breed to Breathe
EP by Napalm Death
Released	17 November 1997
Recorded	1997
Studio	Framework Studios, Lincoln, England
Genre	Death metal, grindcore
Length	19:02
Label	Earache
Producer	Colin Richardson
Napalm Death chronology
Inside the Torn Apart (1997) Breed to Breathe (1997) Bootlegged in Japan (1998)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Chronicles of Chaos	8/10[1]
In Music We Trust	Favorable[2]

Breed to Breathe is an EP by English extreme metal band Napalm Death, released in 1997 through Earache on CD.^[3]

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.^[2] 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.^[4] Many media around the world also refused to feature the clip.^[5]

Both bands that deliver a Napalm Death song on the sixth track are winners of a demo cover version competition^[6] that Napalm Death had launched in summer 1997 and limited to bands without a recording contract.^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Breed to Breathe"	Shane Embury	Embury	3:15
2.	"All Intensive Purposes"	Mitch Harris	Harris	3:23
3.	"Stranger Now"	Embury	Harris, Embury	3:47
4.	"Bled Dry"	Embury	Jesse Pintado	2:21
5.	"Time Will Come"	Embury	Harris	3:22

US release
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
6.	"Greed Killing" (Performed by Impending Doom)	Embury, Harris	Harris	2:54

European release
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
6.	"Suffer the Children" (Performed by Fatality)	Mark Greenway	Harris	4:34

Personnel

Napalm Death

• Mark "Barney" Greenway – vocals
• Shane Embury – bass
• Mitch Harris – guitar
• Jesse Pintado – guitar
• 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

1. Bromley, Adrian (5 February 1997). "Napalm Death - Breed To Breathe". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
2. Ollie (March 1998). "Napalm Death - Breed to Breathe EP". In Music We Trust. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
3. "Napalm Death 'Breed to Breathe'". Earache.com. Earache. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
4. Pearson, Digby (27 December 2009). "Napalm Death 'Breed to Breathe' clip is illegal in Germany". Ask Earache. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
5. Pearson, Digby (24 January 2011). "Napalm Death - 'Inside the Torn Apart/Words from the Exit Wound/Breed to Breathe' 3CD box set available tomorrow in North America". Earache News. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
6. Breed to Breathe (back cover). Napalm Death. Nottingham, England: Earache. 1997.
7. Christe, Ian (August 1997). "Riffs". CMJ New Music Monthly (Great Neck, New York: College Media) (48): 48. ISSN 1074-6978. Retrieved 16 January 2016.