Even though Breather Resist have been broken up since the winter of 2005, their brutal Am Rep-meets-chaotic HC assault has remained some of the most potent

post-pigfuck violence to seep out of the Bible Belt this decade. The band featured guitarist Evan Patterson of Black Cross and National Acrobat fame, bassist

Nick Thieneman, drummer Geoff Paton, and singer Steve Sindoni, and took their cues from the seething dissonant post-hardcore of Hoover (a Hoover song was the

source of Breather Resist's name), Unsane, Kiss It Goodbye, Coalesce and the Jesus Lizard. This 2003 EP was the first thing I picked up from the band after I

saw them live right here in Hagerstown when they were touring with the Kansas metalcore band The Esoteric - my freaking jaw was on the floor after being

stomped by BT's bliztering set in a dingy little VFW hall. Picked up Only In The Morning on CD and proceeded to rattle my brains for the next couple

months to the tune of songs like "Pretty Like Cancer", "Died To Be Famous", and "The Pity Party" - these guys harnessed barely controlled chaos and rage

within a framework of dissonant noise rock riffs and enough distortion to flatten a house. Massively dark and heavy stuff, with some of the raddest negatory

lyrics this side of Unsane. The band broke up in late 2005, but their legacy of neo-noise rock destruction lives on through the new band Young Widows, who

feature 3/4ths of Breather Resist and who continue to peddle grungy, heavy noise in the vein of the 90's greats while putting their own stamp on the

Midwestern skuzz approach. If you want the really heavy shit, though, you gotta go back to the Breather Resist stuff like this decimator of an EP.

This posh picture disc edition of Only In The Morning was released by King Of The Monsters, a lesser known label that nevertheless released some

amazing shit from Creation Is Crucifixion, Gehenna, Locust, Man Is The Bastard, and Unruh back in the '90's. This record and that killer Patent Cruciform

Casket pic disc from Breather Resist were two of the labels last releases before they apparently went back into hibernation. We've got some of this

limited edition jam, only 1000 copies were made so this isn't going to stick around forever. Pretty necessary for heavy noise rock heads!