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Camden Underworld
26 September 2006

There’s a low murmur of background chit chat at the Underworld tonight, but otherwise it’s oddly quiet. Then you realize the PA hasn’t been turned on for some reason, and somehow it all seems like a silent mocking commentary on Breed 77’s career. When is someone going to turn it on?

There’s probably not a single metal fan in the country who hasn’t seen Breed 77 live by now. They’ve supported everyone from Machine Head to Black Sabbath – claiming sole-support for the latter’s alleged final ever live show (before they reformed, post-The Osbournes). The Anglo-Gibraltan five-piece have a new record out – the spirited declaration of intent of “In My Blood (En Mi Sangre)” -  and while they might not have reached the dizzying heights of Lostprophets or some of the other burn-bright-burn-fast UK metal successes, frontman Paul Isola remains philosophical with regards to Breed 77’s musical direction.

Hopefully there’s a maturity; progressing towards a more mature style. With this album we wanted to explore where our ideas further down the line than we had on previous albums. We were able to put in a lot of interesting instrumentations, and create new sounds that make the whole record sound fresher. Every album needs to be individual to everything else out there and our own stuff. It needs to be constantly changing – if we were to stay in one place, always the same idea – it would become stale for us, it would become stale for the fans.

Breed 77 are somewhat stuck in limbo. During their long life, British upstarts like Bring Me The Horizon and Mendeed have slipped in to steal some of their grassroots thunder, while Lostprophets, Bullet For My Valentine and Funeral For A Friend have exploded into almighty rock behemoths. Do they feel slightly put out or overlooked?

No, no, we get this question a lot [laughs]. We don’t feel any bad vibes towards anybody who reaches success. Everybody would like that to happen to them, but if it doesn’t, we have a really good life. We have an enormous, really loyal fanbase. We do our own thing. Fashions come and go; Breed 77 stay here. We were here way before any of these other people and we’ll be here after they’re all long gone.