The Hyena Kill

With 2014’s ‘Scrape My Bones EP’ and two further singles, ‘Suck It Up’ and 2015’s thrilling double-header ‘Still Sick/ Blisters’, the duo refined, honed and focused their fierce alternative rock sound into something harsher, leaner and altogether nastier. The result was their debut album Atomised (2016), an unflinching, brutal dissection of what it means to be skint, frustrated, alienated and adrift in modern Britain. This was followed up by the searing, gnarly yet majestic ‘Spun EP’ (2018).

Fast forward to 2019 and the duo were looking to expand their sound and explore more of the atmospheric elements visited on Spun. They recruited two new members - Sam Jones (Guitars, Synth) and Charlie Seisay (Bass). These new additions helped take the already expansive sound to another level, allowing the band more room to breathe and paving the way for the critically acclaimed majesty of the HYENA KILL’s second LP, 2021’s ‘A Disconnect’. 

2020 and the succeeding years changed everything and the HYENA KILL emerged battered and bruised but anew, penning their deepest material to date. Undergoing a major personnel change with bassist Charlie Seisay also assuming lead guitar duties in place of the outgoing Sam Jones, the modified line-up brings a psychedelic, shoegazey tendency into the feral mix. Blended with a concentration of extreme personal hardship and existential woe, the resultant catharsis is the HYENA KILL’s forthcoming third LP, ‘The Process’ to be released on APF records in early 2025. ‘The Process’ is a noisy and beautiful testimony to triumph over adversity and a quantum leap for a band who’ve played every dive bar in blighty thrice over but who’ll never, ever forget their roots. 

Line-up

• Steven Dobb - vocals
• Lorna Blundell - drums
• Charlie Seisay - bass
• Sam Jones - drums

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