Welcome to our EPK. 

Seen us, heard us, and still want to book us or collaborate somehow? Please drop us an email:
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musclevestband@gmail.com

​Taking influence from bands such as Pissed Jeans, Melvins, Mclusky, The Jesus Lizard and Whores, London noise-punks Muscle Vest reflect the struggle of the average person against an exploitative system within a crumbling state.

"Muscle Vest are one of the coolest bands out there."
- Operation X-Ray

"Muscle Vest pack in a boatload of adrenaline and bring ALL the noise: it’s fucking ugly and monstrously brutal, and those are its positive points. It ain’t polished or pretty, and if you’re on the market for something gnarly, look no further."
- Aural Aggression

"Utterly brilliant sounds"
- Independent Music Podcast



HOT HOT HATE

Thrashed out and recorded live in a single day at Hempstead Road Studios by Steph Carter (Gallows, Lyoness), HOT HOT HATE represents the band's efforts to capture their furious live sound on record.

“As soon as Steph’s name was floated to us, out of all the options we knew that if anyone would get what we were trying to achieve right away, it would be him.”

The EP was mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music (Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge).

Hot Hot Hate confronts contemporary ire - degenerate and callous behaviour shown towards women across all media, mid-life stagnation, and the struggle of achieving anything of note from within a collapsing society. Also, murders. Fun for the whole family!™
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Hot Hot Hate follows Muscle Vest's 2021 EP “Live Laugh Loathe”, and follows the single “God Doesn’t Love You”, released as a split with Struggles with Syntax on Muzai Records in July 2022.

2023

Muscle Vest have spent early 2023 recording and expect to release new music including a vinyl release later in the year.

Solitary Life video
Live Vest - No Pressure @ Supersonic, Paris
Aug 2023 
Live Vest - Stray @ Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
​Nov 2022​
HOT HOT HATE Tour Poster 2022
Photos by Kieran Dhanjal