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December 14, 2025 11 mins
Metalcore Band Breathe In Release New Single  "Misfortune's Hand" + Official Music Video.

The rising force in metalcore, Breathe In, released their electrifying new single “Misfortune’s Hand”. Bridging the ferocity of American metalcore with the cinematic precision of Japanese metal and visual kei, the track delivers an immersive and sonically devastating experience that defines the band’s signature Visual Metalcore sound.      

With “Misfortune’s Hand,” Breathe In channels the intensity of Bad Omens and Orbit Culture, the visual grandeur of Black Veil Brides, and the artistic flair of Japanese legends The GazettE and Hyde. The result is a track that’s both crushing and theatrical.      

Brian Kang shares, "For me, 'Misfortune’s Hand' represents the continuation and confidence of our new/current lineup. Our last single was a reintroduction of our band (we went through a lineup change prior). This one is about carrying the baton forward. We wanted something instrumentally and lyrically intense to showcase our accelerating momentum."      

The music video, available on YouTube, was directed by the band's drummer, Paul Illge Jr. His in-house production crew, who have collectively worked across the film industry with various professional credits, serve as the creative backbone behind all of Breathe In’s visual projects. The video was shot in Brooklyn, NY, bringing the band’s artistic vision to life.       “

Misfortune's Hand” is now available on all major streaming platforms.   Hailing from the heart of the tri-state, Breathe In brings together raw talents from New Jersey, Brooklyn, and Philly. Fusing the aggressive edge of American metal with the precision and artistry of Japanese metal, their sound is as cinematic as it is intense, built to leave a mark both visually and sonically. Formed by five seasoned musicians who have weathered the ever-shifting tides of the music industry, Breathe In is united by a shared mission to bring an intense, sonic experience like no other. The band is made up of vocalist Shola Aurora, guitarists Brian Kang & Topeng, bassist Rob Gnarly, and drummer Paul Illge Jr.  

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you live done to censure for Wow, Crazy Young.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here with
our next guest who has some badass new music. Uh so,
let's talk to Paul from breathe In. How are you hey?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Good dude? Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh my pleasure, And I gotta tell you right off
the bat. One thing I'm impressed with as somebody's front
born in New York, grew up in Jersey, the fact
that you're like a tri state area band and actually
get along is pretty damn Yeah. Ah man, I know

(01:05):
you've gone through different lineups and you have your current
lineup now with this new single, Misfortune's Hand. Tell us
what makes this so much more exciting for you now
compared to any time in your band's history.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, I mean, I think for me personally, the thing
that's really exciting about this one was we had this
demo written since like beginning of twenty twenty three, and
it was immediately like one of my favorite songs, and
I was like, we gotta get this song out. I
gotta get this out. So for me, this is extremely
exciting because the song is finally out, it's done, and

(01:46):
it's one of my favorite songs I've ever worked on
in my entire career. Oh nice, but yeah, and the
new guys, well they're not really new anymore, but Shola
and Topeng when they joined last year, this obviously this
this song was on the docket, and they added such

(02:10):
a great flare to the original demo and just turned
it into something It's so good, man, just so powerful
and so like, I don't know, just added added a
whole new depth of the emotion to the song too, you.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Know, I think too, like you know, after seeing a
lot of bands that you know that most bands don't
really like make it as the original lineup, that's like
the foundation. And then I was thinking about it on
the way to the studio earlier to do this interview, as
I was listening to Metallica and I was listening to

(02:49):
a live thing of Cliff, and I'm like, man, can
you imagine if McGovney was still in the band and
Cliff never entered the band, would we even know who
mate is today? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:01):
No, I think you're right. I mean, yeah, he was
killer man, I mean yeah, no, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know, it's like, I'm not even listen, I saw
Metallica with mcgoverny in the band. I'm not even saying
mcgoverney was a bad bassis. Yeah, it's just sometimes that
chemistry between members, Like I think even the thing with
having both Lars and Mustaine in the same band is

(03:29):
way too much ego for one band. Okay. Yeah, so
again perfect example of like people could say, oh, if
Mustaine was still in the band, well, no, maybe they
wouldn't be Metallica today, and maybe you wouldn't have such
great Megadeth music either.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, yeah, no, I totally agree.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean it makes sense, and I love that I
read something. This is like some heavy duty kudos that
this song it channels I'm gonna read exactly, it channels
the intensity of bad Homans and orbit culture, the visual
grandeur of Black Veil Brides, and the artistic flare of

(04:13):
Japanese legends the Gazette and Hide. That is definitely a
mouthful of probably the best praise you could ever get.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, thank you, right, I mean, oh.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Well, there we go there in the interview, like it
would be the first time, and it's certainly not gonna
be the last. I think. I think the cat agrees.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, no, she well she has to
agree because she hears it all the time.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
I know, right, And I do want to know that.
How does the cat react to the song?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know, she she loves it. She's very energetic and
she she loves the energetic music.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
I love it. I love it. So I think it
would be kind of cool if you could go to
like a metal festival or something and like bring your
pet and yeah, like a cat mosh pit, a dog
mash pet.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
You know how funny would that be? I mean, like
that would be pretty cool though. And a lot of people,
like a lot of metal heads, you know, that's their basically,
that's their support system is those pets. So it'd be
cool to have a mental festivals and like have a
have an area. I think this is a new idea,

(05:39):
like a koreand New festival where there's like a pet area. Okay, right,
I know that would be cool. So what started you
on this whole journey, like from the very way back
beginning of you know, becoming a musician.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
It was so when I was very really young, my
mom used to play the Beatles and the Monkeys and
all these you know, those classic bands and everything, Elvis
and all that, And what was funny is like I've
always kind of felt I've always loved that music, and
I still do, but I've always felt there was like

(06:20):
a piece that was missing. And like, of course, when
I was like, you know, five or six years old,
I couldn't place what I needed to hear. Yeah, I
knew I wanted something like deeper, something heavier, something like
a little bit more distortion. Obviously I was five years old,
so I didn't really know how anything like that until
I saw in the basement this amazing cover art number

(06:45):
of the Beasts by Iron Maiden.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
I saw the record and I was like, this looks
I remember it left such a huge impression on me.
Put it in the record player and it changed my life.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was like everything I wanted to hear out of music.
And the drums specifically, I know Clive Burg worked on
was the drummer for that album, but uh yeah, man,
that was like something I've never heard before, especially like
how it would be their name.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh yeah, that's the most amazing song.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, It's like that's what was like. Oh I didn't
realize because you know, I was used to listening to,
you know, like the Beatles, you know, and Ringo is
great and all, and I love them too, but it's
like there was there was something, there's something in that
number of the Beast album that like spoke to me
and I was it. I was hooked. I was a
metal head ever since.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, you know, it's funny that you mentioned like Ringo
because I played drums while I was a kid, and
two of my idols that made me want to start
playing drums were Ringo Starr and Peter Cress. And it's funny.
I just saw Ringo Starr play at a festival a
couple of months ago that I was covering at Bourbon Beyond,

(07:58):
and uh, I'm I'm watching and I'm like, you know,
Ringo is a great drummer, always has been. But it's
like you made me think of that. It's like it's
so basic, that like basic beat. And then I was
at the first Slayer show and saw Lombardo and I'm like, no,

(08:19):
that's a drummer. Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Yeah, it's like so different, but that's how we was
way back, and I think that's the key. A lot
of people don't realize that metal heads have this strong
basis in all of the original rock and roll. Like
they think we're just into oh, only the scream o
stuff as people would put it, you know, and we
all have that foundation, you know, we all have the foundation.

(08:48):
I think Helter Skelter was a heavy metal song of
its time, yeah, type of thing, you know. But then
there was that progression, like you said, like I remember,
I was into Beatles and Kiss, and then I was
into Zeppelin, and then I was into Ozzy, and then
I was into you know, Metallic and Slayer and wait

(09:11):
before that, into Iron Maid and Press. And it's like
there has been this progression over the past so many
years that really people think we're just into this, but
we like a lot more than that. It's just the
metal hits our soul. Yeah that's the difference.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, well, yeah, that's exactly. That's the perfect way to
word it. Yeah, it does.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
So. Also, your video is badass, and you did double
work in that, right Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah. I direct all of our stuff, I edit all
of our stuff. Also I'm in the video too, so
my my film crew. I've been working with these guys
for a long long time, and not only are we
like great friends, but they're just like some of the
most talented people like in the field that I know,

(10:04):
and just having them work with us is such an
enormous help on all of our productions. So yeah, I
you know, we literally we can't do anything without them,
like they're they're the backbone to our productions, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
I love it. Yeah, and I love that was shot
in Brooklyn because I look at the video and it's
like watching home movies of the days of hardcore in
Brooklyn back way. Yeah, so very cool. Tell everybody how
they reach out to you on socials, on the web,
how they check out the new song and everything else
that you have.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, so the new song, the music videos on YouTube obviously,
the song is called Misfortune's Hand. Our band name is
breathe In on our all our socials, I think it's
at breathe In band, and yeah, we're on all the
streaming platforms, Spotify, Apple Music, all of it. Yeah, man,

(11:01):
just yeah, let us know what you think of the
new sold.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
You know, well, I think it's badass. Everybody's got to
check it out. And thanks a lot for giving us
great music and look forward to a lot more.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, thank you. Gab, We've got a lot more coming up.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
There, you go. Thanks for being on the Adventures of
Pipe Man Cool.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
You got it.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Main
on w for CUI Radio.
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