(For High-Res Press Photos...go HERE)
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NEWS:
05 December 2011 - Our new song "Freezing" will be played on Magic Monster Radio this week as part of their New Music Hour! Listen at the following times:
Monday December 5th - noon PST...Tuesday December 6th - 9:00AM PST...Tuesday December 6th - 6:00PM PST...Thursday December 8th - 1:30PM PST...Sunday December 11th - 6:00PM PST
You can tune in from anywhere in the world either by going to http://radio.magicmonsterrecords.com/ or on itunes by selecting Magic Monster Radio under Alternative.
09 June 2011 - DJ Rocco Horror made an amazing video for our song "By the Daggers in Your Eyes" - do check it out.
Hexham Heads - The Daggers In Your Eyes from DJROCCOHORROR on Vimeo.
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LIVE REVIEWS:
"Hexham Heads may be the perfect soundtrack for your favorite dark horror-thriller, whose darkness is rebounded by just enough energy and aggressiveness in the delivery to make you think you are not the victim but the chaser in the movie." - Rock NYC Live and Recorded
"Hexham Heads then proceeded to perform a live set while the horror film continued to play behind them, and their performance was a delightfully frightful surprise. Their music reminded me of the Clash, the Pixies, Joy Division and the Cure all rolled into one. ...I think I'll call them post-punk dark rock. All I can say is that they succeeded in maintaining my gloomy mood, artfully and with gusto." - LA Music Blog
"From a darkened stage, they let loose with some forceful, moderately sludgy, grinding rock... it was supremely well played, and the vocals had an appealing swagger. The highlight for me was when the bass player took over the lead vocals to sing one of the more macabre lullabies I ever hope to hear." - The 704
"The first song ended and the audience erupted in applause. The venue began to fill up as [they] played through their set, making for a very decent turn-out (the best I've seen for an opening band in my history of going to L.A. shows) My one and only complaint about [their] Troubador show was that there was no encore!" - CWG Magazine
"It is easy to say that this trio is uniquely gifted, but it is their presence on stage that feeds the crowd to set the drinks aside and lose themselves on the dance floor. Truly a band to keep your ears and eyes open to." - Beatcrave
"[The band] started off the evening with a sound heavily influenced by the Pixies mixed with some Sonic Youth. Ken Ramos (Vocals/Guitar) had a vocal delivery that resembled Thurston Moore and was squeezing a sharp fuzz from his Gibson SG. Melissa Pleckham (Bass) had a Rickenbacker bass that was filling the room with low notes. ...I will have to check them out again." - Amateur Chemist
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ASSORTED PRESS QUOTES:
"...Sonic Youth meets My Bloody Valentine meets Blonde Redhead brand of ectoplasmic shoegazin' rock" - Rue Morgue
"Hexham Heads is definitely one of the most satisfying LA based indie rock bands we crossed our path with in recent times." - The Deli Magazine
"If you like your shoe-gazing pop to be a little darker then this is for you. Fuzzy sharp riffs bring My Bloody Valentine to mind, but have no doubt [they] are doing their own thing." - Nic Harcourt (KCRW, Los Angeles Times Magazine)
"...on the new song, 'By the Daggers in Your Eyes,' it's shaped to give way to a '90s-era pop-gazer song. They nailed this one." - Kevin Bronson (BuzzBands.LA, SPIN, Los Angeles Times)
"Songs like the spiraling postpunk livewire of 'Alarms' and the slow-motion thunderclouds of 'Gone' prove that, had Kevin Shields decided to stay home last year, the genre he wrenched from obscurity to greatness would be in good -- if white-knuckled and intense -- hands." - Prefix Magazine
"An indie rock exploration of sound that leads listeners into a dark and droning post-punk world" - Local Vertical
"The focus of the trio's sound is still on the dirty fuzzed out guitars of Ken Ramos...but there's also new elements this time out to keep it from getting stale. The band seem to have (re)discovered 1980's British New Wave groups like The Cure, Joy Division and Echo And The Bunnymen and incorporated their dramatics and atmospherics heavily into their already potent Sonic Youth-meets-BRMC arsenal." - Losing Today
"Slightly psychedelic sounding melodic and slightly frazzled American indie rock of a rather confident Black Rebel Motorcycle Club meets X nature. ...Fuzztone riffs, droning guitars, they’re rather refined and rather good." - Organ Magazine UK (Demo of the Week)
"If the dark, driving melodic assault of By the Daggers In Your Eyes is anything to go by, the album should be well worth the wait. Skittish drums set an edgy tone for Ken Ramos' vocals in tight, subdued verses before the whole thing explodes into a truly memorably chorus that will stay with you the rest of the day." - The Organ Grinder
"...My Bloody Valentine influenced, modern shoegazing" - NME
"All fuzzgauzed atmosphere and razor riffs that tightrope from brooding shoegaze to rhythmically unhinged rock... something of a rarity within their genre tag (always some variant of ‘post-punk revivalism’) in that they don’t stop at the revival—they actually push the music beyond the echoes of whatever bands inspired it." - Web In Front
"An indie rock exploration of sound that leads listeners into a dark and droning post-punk world... and focuses lyrically on dark and intellectual themes."- Performer Magazine
"...the vocals slide in like Sonic Youth throwing a punk rock through the windows of a goth club, and I'm hooked. There's a full-on joy of noise rock, but mixed with a healthy dose of dark Britpop, shoegazed swirls, and an undeniable punk rock snicker in the vocal delivery." - Big Takeover
"The dense sonic display... is something that grabs you right away but also has a growing effect as you listen to the songs over and over." - Post-Punk.com
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INTERVIEWS:
LA RECORD (under the band's former name, Shiloe)