Made up of five high school bandmates, breakk.away formed in early 2022 after being invited to the STARMUS festival in Armenia.

Friends first, they thought “let’s do this” when the opportunity came up.

They’re now ready to release their first single, “I’ll See You When the Night Comes,” after working with big industry names like Nathan Smart and Jens Bogren.

Genre-Bending Alt-Metalcore

breakk.away is an alt-metalcore band pulling from dreampop, EDM, post-rock, cottagecore, and more, with inspirations from Lana Del Rey to The 1975 to Rosalía to Charli XCX.

“Sometimes I’ll come with a skeleton of a song or a palette of songs,” Fadell said. “Maybe it’s just lyrics, a riff, or some piano chords. There’s really no set process.”

Making the First Single

The band spent about a year on the track. After finishing it, they sent it to producer Nathan Smart, then to Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios for mastering. Jim Highes at Northary Studio created the art and video.

“We finally decided to release it as a few of us had to work on college apps and regular work,” Fadell said. With 2023 bringing more songs and the next releases in progress, “we decided it was time to start the engine on this project/band.”