Bad Breeding’s new album ‘Contempt’ is set for release on June 14th through One Little Independent Records and their new single ‘Liberty’ is out now.
Known for a distinct style of music with provoking but crucial messages, Bad Breeding are getting ready to share their next album ‘Contempt.’ Following 2022s merciless ‘Human Capital’ which attacked Conservative meritocracy capitalism, ‘Contempt’ see’s the band sharing their opinions once again and exploring the continued effects of capital’s destruction of the planet and its effect on working class people.
The album combines a propulsive rhythm with fury and explosive guitars to create music that expresses their anger.
Vocalist Christopher Dodd states “Capital and its bourgeois foot soldiers hold nothing but contempt for working people and it’s in that contempt we can find solidarity with one another. Whatever story gets sold and packaged, contempt guides every move of the capitalist class. We see it every day – unspeakable destruction from war and government-sponsored genocide, exploitation of workers and the very gutting of the planet we live on. Only when we realise and utilise the utter contempt held for us can we reach a level of class consciousness that will provide an adequate challenge to capital.”
The album’s cover art is essential, provided by Peter Kennard, a photomontage artist and anti-war campaigner. Kennard’s art is full of messages about wars and conflicts effects on humanity, even in modern day.
New single ‘Liberty’ is a first look at what can be expected from the album. The track discusses liberalism and how it has served as a facilitator of western imperialist expansion while being portrayed as bringing liberation and freedom to underdeveloped parts of the world.
Dodd commented “Grotesque warmongering and profiteering sees the ruling classes continuously rework and reframe the ways in which they justify the barbarity of our world, most notably through their supposed notions of liberty that provide a framework for imperialism. As always, this comes at the expense of working people across the planet, who become nothing but fodder in the relentless meat grinder of the military industrial complex and its prevailing devastation. Atrocity and disdain for human life have remained hallmarks in the pursuit of their kind of freedom, one driven by greed, power and parasitical conquest.”
Bad Breeding have been influenced by the original British anarcho-punk artists like Crass, Rudimentary Peni, and Flux of Pink Indians.
Bandcamp Daily described the band saying, “Rather than fleeing town for greener pastures, Bad Breeding has only rooted more deeply, putting Stevenage on the map for its cultivation of one of the most consequential punk bands today.”
Live dates 2024:
May 9th – Charleroi, BE – Le Vecteur
May 10th – Eindhoven, NL – Stroomhuis
May 11th – Hamburg, DE – Hafengeburtstag
May 12th – Copenhagen, DK – Ungdomshuset
May 13th – Oslo, NO – Vaterland
May 14th – Gothenburg, SE – DDRK
May 15th – Stockholm, SE – Hus 7
May 17th – Helsinki, FI – Sonic Rites Festival
May 18th – Tallinn, EE – Close-Up Båten
May 19th – Kaunas, LT – Lemmy Bar
May 20th – Vilnius, LT – XI20
May 21st – Warsaw, PO – ADA Puławska
May 22nd – Berlin, DE – Obergeschoss Hell
May 23rd – Numberg, DE – Desi
May 24th – The Hague, NL – Sniester Festival
May 25th – Hasselt, BE – Farrm
June 14th – Santa Maria de Lamas, PT – Basquieral Festival
June 19th – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
June 20th – Nottingham, UK – The Angel
June 21st – London, UK – Moth Club
June 22nd – Plymouth, UK – The Nightmare Continues
June 23rd – Bristol, UK – Exchange
