Dead Arms

Formed after the washed-out ending of Wet T-Shirt Competition (a band that got together after one drunken photograph at an ATP festival made us look “like we should be in a band” and actually managed to play the grand total of 3 gigs), Dead Arms retained bassist Danny 5 Bands (USA Nails), guitarist Phil Glitter (Death Pedals) and “vocalist” General Waste (It Often Takes A War) and recruited long term buddy and fellow Gamesmaster enthusiast Kitty Techno (November Fleet) on drums and started taking stuff (a little) more seriously.


With only 5 songs actually worth salvaging we set about creating a new ten song set that could be played in under 30mins (so we could get back to the bar) and would eventually form the entirety of our debut album ambitiously entitled ‘All The Hits’.


Taking cues from the likes of Hot Snakes, The Stooges and Nirvana we started hammering out aggressive straight ahead garage punk that wasn’t afraid to entice our audience to shake their butts and was a far cry from our more discordant peers in the London DIY scene that we’d all been an active part in for so long. (Amusingly, no one actually thinks we sound like any of those guys and instead hear tinges of The Jesus Lizard, OFF! and Part Chimp in our sound).


Having been putting on shows and playing in bands for well over a decade we’ve grown up with the ethos of DIY most eloquently described in the seminal music tome ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’. Our former drummer in Wet T-Shirt Competition Dave Maintenance records, mixes and produces all our music in his hand built studio Bear Bites Horse in East London, Danny designs all our artwork, Phil organises all our gigs and hand-made all the CD sleeves for our album and Kitty and the General mess about repeating the same annoying jokes to each other to keep (their own) spirits high between sausage roll breaks.
Come see us play sometime.

DEAD ARMS x


REVIEWS:

"Dead Arms came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire, they started invasions that resulted in the conquest of most of Eurasia. These included raids or invasions of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, Caucasus, Western Xia and Jin dynasties, and Hackney. These campaigns were often accompanied by wholesale massacres of the civilian populations – especially in the Khwarezmian controlled lands. By 2012, Dead Arms occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China. And now have a new drummer."
(Andy Secher - Hit Paraderl)


"Some hot s**t noise-punk with a bass heavy Am Reptile underbelly, DEAD ARMS are thunderous...Part JESUS LIZARD, PART BLACK WIDOWS, a dash of DRUG CHURCH...all in your face, On tracks like "Superman, F**k You" , the rhythm section simply rumbles with a garage punk foundation, Oodles of style points for sounding like that one band you just can't place; a testament to rolling in influences without cloning a particular sound. Cool noise that's a chunky and hearty meal..."

(Michael F. via Bandcamp)

"Pure aural filth. Love it."

(Ed Williams esq. from A Badge Of Friendship)