‘Humanity degraded, where profit breeds massacre, and opportune hysteria, the only true enemy, is the grifting malignancy, of our political class’ (Weapon Of Tradition)

Bad Breeding follow up last year’s utterly searing full-length, Contempt, with their latest EP, Blood Manifest.  The Stevenage band continue from exactly where they left off, injecting their fierce anarcho-punk with a heady cocktail of metallic discordance, densely pounding rhythms, and savagely howling solos.

Their lyrical focus remains similarly unflinching.  It intertwines themes of militarised violence with our relentless extractive abuse of the planet, and our acceptance of the warped ‘common sense’ that justifies entrenched economic exploitation, and the othering of the already marginalised.

Side one kicks off with the seething title track.  This then bleeds into the equally blistering Weapon Of Tradition, before the swaggering bass-fired Exactly As They Wanted You provides a climax that is as contagious as it is crushing.  Side two comprises the more expansive Competition For Existence, as things take an even more sinister turn.  Martial drums, squalling guitars, and barked vocals ferment a sludge-mired track that literally drips with menace and bleakly ominous foreboding.  Blood Manifest distils Bad Breeding to their absolute, uncompromising essence.