THE BEAST

We’re proud to announce the release of emerging USBM entity   Labored Breath ’s towering debut album  "Dyspnea",   to be released in early April on LP, MC, and digital formats.

Thirty six minutes of soul-destroying evolved black metal,  "Dyspnea"  is the towering debut offering from this new Oakland CA-based one-man black metal entity, a project conceived as unapologetic devotion to the moment of reckoning of one's ultimate finality, and as a conceptual aural evisceration of mankind's minuscule and pathetic existence within the blink of an eye of an infinite, eternal void. The literal medical definition of gasping for air as the final breath appears at the horizon, and of finite stubborn existence attempting to subvert the infinity and inevitability of death,  "Dyspnea"   is a harrowing trip deep inside humanity's biggest fears and its all-encompassing insignificance. It is the moment of realization and the crippling instance within one’s existence in which the immensity and omnipotence of death pierces the final and most armored under layers of consciousness and denial and stares at the human being straight in the eye to make it kneel in the shadow of total unavoidability. Bridging the spellbinding atmospherics and evocative power of Icelandic black metal ( Sinmara ,  Carpe Noctem ,  Misþyrming ,  Svartidauði ) with the crushing violence and brute antagonism of French black metal ( Aosoth ,  Drastus ,  Antaeus ), Labored Breath has created an intimidating and majestic black metal crucible that shape-shifts and morphs in perpetual motion, stirring an immense sinister aural maelstrom of tenebrous surrealism and masterful sonic destruction as ultimate and supreme homage to the omnipotence and splendor of our endless Destroyer.

Leading up the album’s release, the track  “Belie”   has been unveiled exclusively by  Invisible Oranges , with the notorious metal blog asserting that  “Dyspnea forges out on a different axis to create a belligerent and intense trail to lesser-tread territory in black metal“  - you can read the full feature and check out the track  HERE .