We Demand Parachutes

We Demand Parachutes are an alternative rock and pop-punk band hailing from Boston and Brooklyn. This year We Demand Parachutes played Virginia’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival, one of the largest rock festivals in the country, and released their debut record, produced by Alan Day of Four Year Strong.


For We Demand Parachutes, the ideology is simple; work with purpose, be grateful, be humble and play every show like it’s the last. The group was incepted originally when guitarist and vocalist Kevin McCord was deployed overseas with the United States Military, while bassist and programmer Seth Richardson and drummer Ben Shumaker were working in live sound. In late 2016 Kevin started sending ideas from a deployment in Africa back to Seth and Ben. After a few demos were passed back and forth it was clear We Demand Parachutes were meant to be writing and producing music together. The group met in North Carolina for two weeks following that deployment and set their sights on creating a sound that could capture their individual stories and experiences. For the first two years, We Demand Parachutes existed over Google Drive and group messages. Despite the creative limitations of those early years, We Demand Parachutes never stopped writing.


In January, the group met Alan at Ghost Hit Recording in West Springfield, MA and began working on a record together. That record, "Outside The Null Field," is available now.