Human Wave Attack formed out of boredom, a shared love of music, philosophy, introspection, personal politics and a common world veiw. The overwhelming desire was to create the music that they themselves wanted to hear.

We are:

Arvid Antonsen Vocals/Guitars

Matt Buckley Vocals/Guitars

Denise Dunstan Vocals/Bass Guitars

Andrew Hepburn Drums

Human Wave Attack are a London based band, formed originally as a three piece; with Matt and Arvid playing guitars (one of which was baritone acting as bass) and Andrew on drums. After playing and booking/promoting shows around London for a year the trio first recorded a self titled mini-album which had no official release but is available free to download. Since then they have released two 7 inch singles: The Seraphic/Cape Kidnappers and Isophobia/Love it Leave it. The recordings were entirely self-funded, self-produced and self-released in September 2011 and February 2012 respectively. Both singles are available to download at itunes and most digital distribution websites. A video has also been shot for The Seraphic by up and coming director Karan Kandhari, and is currently in post production stages. It expected to be released in June/July 2012.

The band have just returned from California where they played a mini-tour, promoting their respective 7inch singles including in-store performances at Burger Records, Vinyl Solutions as well as a slew of unofficial impromptu performances at house parties around Los Angeles.

Prior to their Californian tour, Human Wave Attack recruited their fourth member Denise Dunstan formally of Toehammer on bass, guitars, and vocals. Thus giving HWA an even denser/heavier feel, to their already full sound.

The band's musical influences can be heard quite strongly in early 1980s New Zealand punk and indie bands The Clean, The Gordons, The Bats and more recently Bailterspace who were all on the influential independent Flying Nun label. However there are also strong UK and American influences in the band, with moments that hark to early Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine as well as the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and the Pixies to name a few. With an array of influences like these the band could only say that their songs can be summed up as NOISE-POP. That is, a banging' pop song, played loudly, honestly, passionately, with screaming guitars and lots of great hooks.

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