Breach

Breach is the name of several different acts, including a Swedish punk and hardcore band, a UK electronic music producer using the Breach alias, and a Bangladeshi rock band.

Swedish punk and hardcore band

The Swedish Breach form in Luleå in 1993 after the local punk band Superdong splits up. One half of Superdong goes on to form Fireside, while the other half becomes Breach. The group develops a raw, melodic hardcore and deathrock sound, with later material also moving through sludge, post-hardcore and post-metal territory. Their music is described as drawing from bands such as Neurosis, Tortoise, Unsane, The Jesus Lizard, Entombed and Shellac.

Breach first appear on several compilation releases before issuing their debut MCD, Outlines, on Burning Heart Records. Their first full-length album, Friction, is recorded in spring 1995 at Sunlight Studios in Stockholm with Fred Estby of Dismember engineering and producing alongside the band. It is released in August 1995. The second album, It’s Me God, is recorded in January and February 1997 and released later that April on Burning Heart Records, with recording, mixing and production by Pelle Gunnerfeldt. The EP Old Songs & New Beats appears in 1996, also on Burning Heart Records. The third album, Venom, follows in May 1999, and the band’s final album, Kollapse, is released in December 2001. Soon after that release, Breach announce their split.

Ben Westbeech’s Breach alias

Breach is also the house-focused performance name of UK DJ and producer Ben Westbeech, who is from Hertfordshire and was born in 1981. He first uses the name several years after his own name appears on the first release for Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label. Under the Breach name, he issues singles on RAMP Recordings in 2010 and 2011, then launches his own Naked Naked label in 2012. On that label he releases You Won’t Find Love Again and 101. In 2013 he releases a collaboration with the London trio Dark Sky, and later that year his track Jack on Dirtybird Records reaches the UK Top Ten.

Bangladeshi rock band

A Bangladeshi rock band called Breach first gains popularity through the songs “Shada” from Agontuk-2 and “Boshonto” from Isha Khan Durey’s Dinbodol. The band then signs to G-Series and releases its self-titled debut album in 2006. It is active from 2002 to 2007, then reforms to release Rajotto in 2015.