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Contempt from Bad Breeding

Posted by Loren on April 26, 2024

Contempt from Bad Breeding
Contempt from Bad Breeding

Bad Breeding continues with the bangers, announcing their upcoming fifth album, Contempt, coming out in June on One Little Independent Records (UK) and Iron Lung Records (USA). The new album's packaging will zines discussion journalist Aidan Frere-Smith and the homelessness crisis.

Here's the first single, "Liberty," below. The album comes out on June 14, following 2022's Human Capital.

Track listing:

  1. Temple of Victory
  2. Survival
  3. Devotion
  4. Liberty
  5. Discipline
  6. Retribution
  7. Gilded Cage / Sanctuary
  8. Vacant Paradise
  9. Idolatry
  10. Contempt 

Live dates

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

Iron Lung preorders are available via bandcamp and bigcartel.

June 23rd - Bristol, UK – Exchange

Contempt from Bad Breeding
Contempt from Bad Breeding

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