#firebreather

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

Sometimes bands are named ironically, but not FIREBREATHER. The Gothenburg trio, now rounding out year ten as a band, absolutely lives up to their name. Diehard followers know well the thundering low-end drums and bass melded to powerful guitars and roaring vocals from Mattias Nööjd. It's a sound that envelops and overwhelms, rapturously so.

And you'll be delighted to know Firebreather are as mighty as ever, with a fourth full-length album on the way -- seven tracks intriguingly titled 'Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire' (2026).

Says the band:

With the writing and recording of 'Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire,' the aim was to keep it raw, heavy and groovy. Expanding our musical trajectory. Adding a lil more melody to vocals as well. We recorded with Joona in Studio Underjord and we told him right away that we want to keep it raw and dirty.

For this record we brought in Tommy Hanning on drums, he was in Firebreather at the time of the recording of our first album so we knew he was capable. We were in between drummers when it was time to hit the studio for our fourth album and he was kind enough to learn the songs from his home, he lives way up north in Sweden.

He flew down to jam with us for one weekend and after that we hit the studio. All in all we think we came out with a raw, heavy and to us, moving record. We hope it'll move other people too.

The first single is straight up damning, a striking frontispiece that showcases solid riffian architecture. The main theme is a current of searing inferno spit out in pummeling triplets and swirling in doom-laden atmosphere. Instant. Headbanging. Stuff. The chorus is wings out, taking us high in the sky for a dragon's eye view of scorched earth below. The song ends on an unexpectedly regal note, which I found refreshing.

Look for Firebreather's Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire on October 16th in the usual stunning array of vinyl options on Heavy Psych Sounds (pre-order here).

Give ear...

SOME BUZZ

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. 

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.

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