The four-piece has already turned listeners’ heads at Whelan’s, The Button Factory and The Academy, and tastemakers across Ireland and the UK. However, their career is only just getting started, bringing their experience to new heights on their first recorded tracks.

‘A Dying Breed’ oozes with confidence, they blast out a sense of authentic purity, whilst bashing those who mould themselves for others. Even the title indicates a lonely plight to reset the balance, attempting to light the fire with atmospheric soundscapes turned roaring stadium-filling riffs.

With an EP steadily building, Empathy sells itself as what’s next for the Irish alt-rock scene, pushing through the stereotypical indie atmospheres and emerging with a darker, more provoking sound.

The band adds, “A Dying Breed is a song about the social climbers and sycophants we all brush shoulders with. Status seekers who ultimately burn out fast. We all know them.”

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The band began between vocalist Dean Nolan and drummer Adam McCarthy as a songwriting outlet. After recruiting bassist Sam Sweetman and guitarist Dan Rheinisch, they found themselves ready to take on the live scene, building their reputation to support fellow up-and-comers and headline shows across the Irish circuit.

‘Jeffrey’ is an intention-setting flurry of raw performance and thoughtful storytelling. The band explode from a flurry of riffs and shrieking distortion into a firm verse, dissecting the mentality of a killer. The choruses punch out, embracing the internal conflict and then crying out for help, their emotions sliding from end to end of the spectrum. A punchy, piercing and energising first outing.

“Jeffrey is an interpretation of the internal struggles and moral wranglings of one of the most well-known serial killers of the 20th century,” the band explain. “We wrote the song to investigate Dahmer’s descent from ideation to reasoning; and eventually to his indulgent actions, and relishing in his vile nature.”

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