House Party Massacre (aka HPM) have been ploughing punk/ alternative rock as a four-piece from their London base since the tail-end of 2009.
They yield a sound that has obvious origins within late 1990s bands but also draw these metal/ punk/ indie influences from many decades; blending their own sound from this.
Amongst playing and booking shows and writing new material, HPM’s sticksman Seb took the time to have a few words……
They yield a sound that has obvious origins within late 1990s bands but also draw these metal/ punk/ indie influences from many decades; blending their own sound from this.
Amongst playing and booking shows and writing new material, HPM’s sticksman Seb took the time to have a few words……
Hello Seb, so what is new with HPM?
Hi,we are busy rehearsing for the Emergenza battle of the bands gig; we are in the semi-finals at Dingwalls in Camden. Also we plan on recording a new E.P. to be released in the summer.
Busy then, the best of luck in the competition. Tell me what can fans expect from the new EP?
A more definitive sound. We feel as if we're starting to find our sound more, our first E.P. had different genres that we tried to experiment with and see what we found was better than others. Just a better quality of music all around...
Sounds like you are finding your sound, but what our your influences?
With a certain song we have that we're hoping to have on our new E.P. John, our lead singer was influenced by The Deftones.
Blue Youth (on the New Breed) has a Nirvana influence, as is one of our upcoming songs that we've finally finished.
Another track we have, End of Me wasn't actually directly musically influenced but the Hunter S. Thompson and Kurt Cobain suicides were the main inspiration of that track.
I've written a song as well that we'll hopefully get done soon; I am aiming for something like System of a Down, especially the track Mind where it has a dark bass riff.
Blue Youth (on the New Breed) has a Nirvana influence, as is one of our upcoming songs that we've finally finished.
Another track we have, End of Me wasn't actually directly musically influenced but the Hunter S. Thompson and Kurt Cobain suicides were the main inspiration of that track.
I've written a song as well that we'll hopefully get done soon; I am aiming for something like System of a Down, especially the track Mind where it has a dark bass riff.
Any further ambitions for 2012 (or beyond)?
We want to just keep doing what we're doing, it's all going well at the moment and we basically just want to finish these songs off to show people our ideas.
We're also fortunate to be able to go on tour this summer in the UK. We'll be going to Cheshire then onto Manchester and Liverpool. We'll be playing !Bidstock! Festival in Sandbach as well.
In the future, we just want to get to a point where we're a successful band, playing big venues and making a living doing something we love doing...
We're also fortunate to be able to go on tour this summer in the UK. We'll be going to Cheshire then onto Manchester and Liverpool. We'll be playing !Bidstock! Festival in Sandbach as well.
In the future, we just want to get to a point where we're a successful band, playing big venues and making a living doing something we love doing...
In this digital age, where it seems anyone can make a record in their bedroom, it is refreshing to hear of a young band that have established excellent musicianship and song-craft from extensive of gigging and rehearsing.
Only then deciding the time was right to release their début EP, New Breed with two sell-out shows at The Zenith in Islington back in July of 2011.
I am interested to see where the band’s sound will progress from here, but with an outlook and cohesion beyond their years and a genuine love of playing to their fans this could be one party that outgrows its current house…..
Only then deciding the time was right to release their début EP, New Breed with two sell-out shows at The Zenith in Islington back in July of 2011.
I am interested to see where the band’s sound will progress from here, but with an outlook and cohesion beyond their years and a genuine love of playing to their fans this could be one party that outgrows its current house…..
New Breed is on iTunes
