French crust/hardcore/sludge outfit Split releases »Violence Breeds Violence« studio live session video

Photo by Rémy Barbe

Rouen, France based crust/hardcore/sludge outfit Split has released »Violence Breeds Violence« studio live session video featuring songs from their debut album, out on October 10th, 2025 via Incisive Records.

Directed/shot/edited by Remy Barbe for Swarm Of Flies Films. Recorded in Studio III at Le Point FMR in Paris. B camera (DV) by Basile Marion. Mixed by Lucas Ramos At Bruit D’Avril Studio. Produced by Incisive Records and Vadb Productions.

Tracklist:
01. Coward
02. Good Cop
03. Discipline (Hoax cover)
04. Something Of My Own
05. Stained Soul
06. Vicious Soul

Split is all about settling scores with yourself, the world and the rage of wanting to get out of it. Between hardcore punk, crust and blackened noise, Marvin Borges-Soares (ex-Structures) makes Split a collection of hatred where each line comes from demons witnessing a world corrupted by violence, precariousness, addiction and death.

Split’s debut album, »Violence Breeds Violence«, is a dark and uncompromising sonic manifesto. Across 7 tracks, the band delivers an intense and cathartic journey through hardcore energy, blending raw rage, pain and urgency.

Lyrically, the record tackles heavy and visceral themes – domestic violence, police brutality, poverty, depression, addiction, death – making it both a cry of survival and an act of resistance.

A first strike that sets the tone for Split and marks its arrival on the French extreme music scene.

Order »Violence Breeds Violence« here: split-hc.bandcamp.com

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well