Bleech 9:3 bring Irish grunge vulnerability to their self-titled EP

Irish grunge band Bleech 9:3 release their self-titled EP on 15 May via Polydor, following singles Jacky, Ceiling, Cannonball and Underrated. The story behind the band gives the EP an emotional charge before the first riff lands. Singer-guitarist Baz Quinlan and guitarist Sam Duffy met through AA, with Quinlan becoming Duffy’s sponsor before the pair moved from Dublin to London in 2024.

That context matters because the band’s songs do not feel like grunge revival as fashion. They come from a place of vulnerability, recovery and the strange closeness that can form between people who recognize the same damage in each other. Underrated introduces a theme that Quinlan describes as bad worship, the twisting of love into something more dangerous and compulsive.

Across five tracks, the EP looks set to combine heavy guitar pressure with lyrical unease and lived-in honesty. For a 15 May digest, Bleech 9:3 are worth highlighting as a new band with a real origin story: not just another distortion pedal and a press shot, but a project built from survival, friendship and the need to make noise out of something difficult. Source: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/bleech-93-reveal-details-of-their-upcoming-self-titled-ep