Birthrite hail from the heart of the post-industrial Black Country in the UK, our current line-up has just been refreshed in 2012 with some brand new members. Its still fairly bleak in The Black Country, seeing as we live in the future now, but we are doing our damnedest to brighten the place up a bit until we get our flying cars and jetpacks.

Our music is a melange of our own individual musical tastes and life experiences, which are many, varied, noisy and in some cases illegal. We like a bit of a cavort, so standing still is not in our opinion an option with the end of the world booked for later this year, better to be a moving target than a sitting duck. We like to put on a show that bristles with energy, and we want the energy we are projecting to be absorbed by the audience, and be carried on to create new ideas, and new artists.

The band has a very visual style which is quite heavily retro, because we feel its just much better everything. The disposable 21st century does not fill us with much hope and wonder anymore, and a side step to a more hand crafted and artistic world would in our opinion be much better. Just because we have to use machines for everything these days does not mean that the machines cant be made to be beautiful. We have an affinity therefore for the Steampunk genre, due to its diversity and openness to such outlandish ideas and styles, but still like to experiment with other art forms, and try to push boundaries at all times.