Stevenage punks Bad Breeding have unveiled the unsettling video for new track, ‘Corrupting Fist’. The clip sets their ferocious two-minuter to clips of police brutality and body mutilation, including a short glimpse of cracked teeth and a hammer. You have been warned.
“The idea sprung from attempting to find ways of approaching certain formalities that were cropping up at the fag end of last year; us trying to shift the weight of increasingly bleak prospects served up by proposed changes in government policy, inhumane responses to what’s developing in Europe and further east, as well as the deepening impact of social and political injustices prevalent back home,” vocalist Christopher Dodd explains.
“There’s a sense of despondent acceptance in the early stages of the song and that was an attempt to hint at the impact of blame culture and that idea of immovable resignation that comes from feeling disenfranchised. The latter stages are more about finding your feet and offering some sort of resistance to the rank shite we’re forced to trudge through. Lyrically, it’s a bit of a coiled investigation of my mindset and outlook at the moment – something that flutters between being damagingly negative and naively hopeful.”
APRIL
29 BIRMINGHAM Sunflower Lounge
30 LIVERPOOL Blade Factory
MAY
01 GLASGOW Stag and Dagger @ Broadcast
02 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
03 BRIGHTON Prince Albert
04 LONDON Old Blue Last
05 READING Purple Turtle
06 BRISTOL Crofters Rights