Breed 77
Insects
4/5
Breed 77 are a particularly odd sounding band. Mixing the bog standard metal sound with a Spanish, flamenco edge. It’s perhaps that weird edge that sparked them to oddly juxtapose two concepts for Insects. Revolution and, well, Insects.
Oddly enough, it works. Opening track ‘Wake Up’ builds the album up well, despite a pretty clichéd ticking clock opening. Heavy, fast and even growly in parts, it captures the dark feel to follow. Even the slower numbers feel somewhat dark and strangely, many of the flamenco parts of the album, such as in ‘New Disease’, sound like experimental System of a Down material. Screechy guitars are used in moderation to great effect, noticeably so in, ‘In the Temple of the Ram...’ a two part instrumental piece which doesn’t feel shoe horned into the album. The only real disappointment is the final track ‘Zombies’, which feels like a garbled mess of an anthem and doesn’t really fit into an otherwise broody yet confident album.
Overall, a pretty consistant album which improves upon an already solid back catalogue for Breed 77. More heavy parts than in previous albums, whilst still retaining the sound of their Gibraltan routes.
(Slightly edited version appears in Student Direct-Manchunian Issue 8 - dated 16th November 2009)
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