Rebreather

Photo By Mollie Crowe

Formed in 1999, Rebreather delivers music to enhance the senses. Rising from the staunch wave of the '90's doom/sludge sea, the band's sound draws from the thunderous volumes of Cavity and Floor as much as from the twitchy finesse of Barkmarket or Hum's melodic rumble. But to say that Rebreather simply mimics any of these acts is sorely missing the point. While some bands are happy to move small chunks of ground by following their contemporaries, Rebreather takes the tomes of the elder gods and completely rewrites them. Call it organized chaos. The first band ever to grace the Nyabinghi stage at the inaugural Emissions from the Monolith Festival in 2000, Rebreather's attention to detailed melody within fury can be heard on releases such as 'Need Another Seven Astronauts' (2002), 'Half Speed Ahead' (2003), 'Sunflower' (2008) and 2018's self-titled EP.

Rebreather creates punishing, tenacious, and metallic music that seethes and breathes. More than a barrage of stark noise and earthen sludge, Rebreather creates songs; glorious, winding songs that allow dissonant, harmonic guitar/bass tones to soothe before they strike, drumming that builds and then batters, and vocals that display a powerful, shimmering vulnerability. On December 3, Rebreather will release its fifth full-length LP, 'The Line, Its Width, and the War Drone', via Aqualamb Records. 

Produced by Rebreather and mastered by Carl Saff (John Carpenter, Bongzilla, Elder), 'The Line, Its Width, and the War Drone' takes trickles from both the band's past releases and 20 years experience and coalesces the trio's "cave pop" into a roaring river of soaring sound. Flush with oddly accessible, dazzlingly tight metalcraft, ominous, propulsive basslines, and a rampaging rhythmic verve, the record's widescreen sheen gleams with a mercurial mystique befitting of only the most tight-knit, veteran units.