Firebreather‘s new one is a banger of heads and a crusher of ribcages. The Gothenburg trio have been together a decade now and will issue their fourth full-length, Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire, on Oct. 16. It’s to be their first offering through Heavy Psych Sounds after releasing their first three albums through RidingEasy Records — their most recent LP was 2022’s Dwell in the Fog (review here) — and the first single taken from it is the title-track, “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire.”

In true Firebreather style, they make that a hook, and amid their own tonal density, they craft a memorable groove and find clarity in distortion. It’s pummel, and Firebreather for sure have become reliable purveyors in that, but it also showcases how they’ve grown into their own sound over the last 10 years, which is what you want going into the new record as well. What I want, anyway.

Bottom line is it sounds killer, will look forward to more. The PR wire brought the following (except the tracklisting; that I found while checking dates on Metal Archives). Have at it:

Swedish sludge metal trio FIREBREATHER to release new album “Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire” on Heavy Psych Sounds; first track streaming!

Swedish sludge metallers FIREBREATHER have signed to Heavy Psych Sounds Records for the October 16th release of their new full-length “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire”, and premiere the title track!

🩸 Check out new track Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire 🩸

Firebreather formed in Gothenburg in 2016, rooted in crushing, sludge-doused doom from the very beginning. Never wavering from that commitment across all three of their incendiary full-length releases, the trio has pursued weight with purpose, not as spectacle, nor as an exercise in excess, but as the only language broad enough to hold the emotional reach and sonic heft of their sound.

The music arrives in a way that writes itself with no distance between the words and the sound; they rise from the same cursed ground, and that honesty has become the band’s defining force.
Firebreather is a band that never postures or asks to be admired for their heaviness- and to see them live is to experience exactly why. Their weight takes on another life entirely. The band’s towering tone and consuming grit don’t fill a room so much as alter it. Volume presses against the body before the first lyric lands and riffs arrive like shifting earth. The drums don’t drive the songs forward; they anchor them while the line between sound and physical force begins to disappear.

Years spent crossing Europe and North America have only sharpened that purpose, and a decade on with a fourth album on the way via the notorious Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Firebreather remains exactly where it belongs. Head down. Volume up.

Tracklisting:
1. Only in the Eyes of Others
2. El Cuervo
3. Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire
4. The Sorrow Hides
5. Protector of Realm
6. Against the Light
7. Shrines

FIREBREATHER is
Mattias Nööjd – Vox/guitar
Jacob Madetoja – Bass
Joakim Olsson – Drums

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Firebreather, “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire”