Bad Breeding set to release new album 'Contempt' with accompanying zine

Bad Breeding, the hardcore band from Stevenage, is set to release their fifth studio album 'Contempt' on June 14th through One Little Independent Records and Iron Lung Records in the US.

Following their 2022 album 'Human Capital', 'Contempt' continues to delve into the issues that plague society, focusing on austerity's impact on the working class and environmental degradation. The release will be accompanied by a zine featuring essays on these pressing issues, contributing to the album's narrative depth.

Christopher Dodd, the band's vocalist, shared his insights on the album's themes, stating, "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 lead single 'Liberty' critiques the facade of liberalism and its role in facilitating western imperialist policies. Dodd elaborates, "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."