Swedish sludge metal trio Firebreather to release new album »Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire« on Heavy Psych Sounds; first track streaming!
Gothenburg, Sweden based sludge metal trio Firebreather has announced their new full-length album, »Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire«, scheduled for release on October 16th, 2026 via Heavy Psych Sounds.
Check out the first single and title track »Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire« below!
Tracklist:
01. Only In The Eyes Of Others
02. El Cuervo
03. Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire
04. The Sorrow Hides
05. Protector Of Realm
06. Against The Light
07. Shrines
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
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 via Doomed & Stoned today!
🩸 Check out new track »Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire« 🩸
“Instant headbanging stuff.” — Doomed & Stoned
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.
Photo credit: Jonas Andersson
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.
New album »Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire«
Out October 16th on Heavy Psych Sounds (LP/CD/digital)
Says the band: “Heavy Psych Sounds was the first option when we decided to go with a European label. It’s is a busy label with one ear to the ground and we like the initiatives they take with festivals etc. It felt like a no brainer.”
Firebreather is
Mattias Nööjd – Vox/Guitar
Jacob Madetoja – Bass
Joakim Olsson – Drums
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