Heath Breitenbach’s Music Page

As of October 2025 I, (Heath Breitenbach, The SpartanNerd) have released five albums. Independently produced, recorded, and played at an in-home studio. The music can be listened to and downloaded here. (newest to oldest)

Preach! (2025) (click to listen)

An ironic title, considering no lyrics were sung by a human. (Lyrical block). This entirely instrumental work reflects a journey of fifteen years in hobbyist recording, and hopefully displays a more mature look at music in general. (I earned a MMED during this long hiatus, and what do I do in my spare time anyway? Play guitar. Review nerdy stuff. Play video games. MTG sometimes lately about as much as I go fishing. That’s it). The album features 14 different guitars! Also there are some family contributions from my child, and one guitar solo by my brother…both have been my guitar students during this time. I am also experimenting more with Arabic scales and sounds and expanding on modal monk chants. The final track, “Tandems,” features a synth voice known as a “vocaloid,” and this is actually me playing a guitar! (No, I didn’t hire a Japanese girl to sing it!). Synth guitar has become the springboard for me to actually go through with completing this album since the COVID-19 pandemic.

And this is officially published for streaming…it’s on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, and so many more platforms, most of which I have never heard of . Very exciting! When you listen, it goes to soundscan, and evidently I receive royalties. So….

The Lions Den (2009) (click to listen)

The angel and dragon here are from Clarence Larkin’s dispensational charts. (I have a lot of this theology in my background. Keyword: background.) I have said if I ever got a tattoo, it might be of this. But that would take a LONG TIME!

This album features emotional songwriting and musical chops, and reflects a growing prowess using modern studio software. Blues Apocalypse was featured on He-Man.org’s fan album release, making this the only work published outside my home studio. Additionally, Gravedancer received tiny local airplay. But it’s something! Country Fried (Bonus Track) could be a candidate for an Outlaw Country music hit.

The only music I have published outside of my studio. He-Man.org is no more, and so this is literally an artifact in the recycling bin of the internet.
The inside liner notes of the Roast Gooble Dinner album featured this image of my album cover. The website referenced here is no more, however. (It was Mobile Me. A LONG time ago!) The cartoon image behind the album is Battle Cat and, I believe, Eamon O’Donoghue who was one of the hosts of the podcast and is an artist working in fantasy genre stuff, including maybe especially He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. (I’m pretty sure he did the art on the box for the new MASTERVERSE New Eternia Moss Man, for instance).

Hymns Unclassified (2006) (Click to listen)

This is all I have of this album cover. It is the back with the tracklist. The front looked like an old worn hymnbook, specifically the 1956 edition of The Baptist Hymnal, the ones of which I grew up with at Glendale Baptist Church had a blue canvas cover with gilded title font..

About ten copies of this album sold! (Mostly to lunch ladies). An album of hymn covers, many in hard-rock style. It reflects a growing production value and exploration of recording techniques. I wanted to bring rock music to traditional church music just to prove a point. Also during some of the writing I was working in church, and I considered recording music for Hobby Lobby. I actually spoke with some people at their headquarters, and they were interested. But it would have required a move to Texas pretty much, so I didn’t pursue this any further. How could things be different if I had done that?

Faith, Love, and the Weather (2002?)

The cover featured a picture of the clouds over the graveyard in Pacolet, South Carolina, and the title. The back had a picture of me playing a black bronze series BC Rich Warlock behind my head, and the track listing. I don’t know if any copies of this with images are still out there.

My first all-digital album. It was done using mostly free or dirt-cheap resources. And also heavy on the Digitech equipment. There was an attempt at presenting a partially Christian Rock/Secular album reflecting commercial musical values at the time…a lot of punk like MxPx and Weezer. Once again, if you want to hear it, send me a private message. I recently did a video featuring the song “Raindance” on YouTube, showcasing my homemade guitar, “Cringer.”

Who I Am, How I Worship (2000)

If you want to hear this one, you will have to send me a private message. The songs are low-level, many written in the early days of my guitar playing. And the recording is grainy and harsh, done on a portable analogue four-track machine. Bass and drums were done by a Casio keyboard. Very few copies were made as this was reproduced at North Greenville College using the only CD burner anyone had anywhere. (This was new tech. GO MOUNTIES!). Such a valuable learning experience though!