BÖNDBREAKR rocks bat city -
BÖNDBREAKR rocks bat city -
BÖNDBREAKR HAS BEEN deemed one of the BEST PUNK BANDS in the Live Music Capital of the World by more thaN 500 Music Industry Professionals.
The band has earned multiple airplay features on the acclaimed Austin Music Minute (KUTX 98.9) with Laurie Gallardo and metal radio show Search & Destroy ( KOOP 91.7) with Lauryn Darci.
Most recently, BÖNDBREAKR has been hailed as one of the best bands to hit the Purple City Music Festival stages (September 20204) and they show no signs of stopping.
BIO
Deemed one of the Best Punk Rock Bands in Austin, BÖNDBREAKR have played their unique blend of grimy nightmare music during SXSW 2022 and 2023, and have opened for heavy-hitting acts such as H.R. (Bad Brains), MDC, Fea, Cinnamon Babe, Pleasure Venom, Fuck Money, Pussy Gillette, Restraining Order, Gumm, Naked Aggression, Gregg Turner (ex-Angry Samoans), Drakulas, and Pinata Protest.
They also collaborated with bassist, banjo player, and songwriter JD Pinkus on a cover of Melvins’ “Bride of Crankenstein” released on Wax Donut Records (2022).
BÖNDBREAKR members include frontwoman Gerilyn Hayes-McCloskey, guitarist Ciaran McCloskey (Aduanten), bassist Thad Stevens (Descendants of Erdrick), and drummer Patrick Van Veghel.
In July 2023, BÖNDBREAKR took their unique brand of crossover protest punk / metal and electric live performance out west to promote their EP titled ‘EXILE’, which was released on Friday, August 25, 2023, on Grimace Records. The ‘Waking Nightmare Tour’ covered 15 cities with 15 performances in Roswell, NM; Yuma, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO and many others.
The band is based in Austin, TX, continues to lend local support to touring acts, completed their East Coast tour in May 2024 with misfits of ska punk Hans Gruber and the Die Hards.
Following their tour, the band traveled with Angry Tooth Records client Throat Piss to Jerome, AZ for an exclusive in-store record store performance at Puscifer the Store and mini-tour.
In September 2024, BÖNDBREAKR were hailed as one “the best bands” of Purple City Music Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for their electrifying live performance.
“The band were the talk of the town at Purple City, unleashing a brainsick performance at the Y AfterHours full of anarchic abandon.”
-Khagan Aslanov, Range
BOOK BÖNDBREAKR
IMAGINE A HYBRID OF BLACK METAL WITH grind/hardcore undercurrents, afro-futurism, modern dance, performance art, Kabuki theater, and beyond.
Stylized, political, and complex, from Austin with powerplay riffage.”
Watch the official video for ‘Iconolast’ on YouTube now:
Iconoclast
Punk-metal collective BÖNDBREAKR waste no time crashing and screeching their way into the studded and manic timeline of Texan punk, joining the likes of Meat Joy, the Dicks, Scratch Acid, Butthole Surfers and Pussy Gillette as the latest and arguably best in the state’s revered fringe citizenry.
The band were the talk of the town at Purple City [Edmonton, Alberta, Canada], unleashing a brainsick performance at the Y AfterHours full of anarchic abandon. -Khagan Aslanov, Range
BÖNDBREAKR, 2024
Director: Jay Galvan (Jay Galvan Photo)
Video Production: JD Carrera, Production Assistant
The Spirit (Character), Choreography: Alexandra Achieng Ligawa
The Future (Character), Actress: Zora Hanley-Krunić
Video location: The Lost Well (Austin TX)
STREAM ‘ICONOCLAST‘ NOW: Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music
press quotes
“The group’s majestically long-flowing hair suggested something thrash adjacent, but close attention to the relentless riffage evinced only trace heavy metal lineage. Reader, never have I been more proud to be a pathetic, smelly hardcore nerd.”
Austin chronicle
“Their rendition of ‘Bride of Crankenstein’ (originally from Melvins’ 2014 LP ‘Hold It In’) flaunts a heavy, distorted riff set against a growled and occasionally brattish vocal […].
The marriage of relentlessly heavy guitars, groove laden bass and banjo captures the arty nature of the track perfectly, and in under three minutes Bondbreakr not only signal their love for a great band but advertise themselves as a musical act to watch out for in their own right.”
REAL GONE
“Established in 2018, the psychedelic-punk quartet rages controlled noise with a commanding edge. Often singing about racism, sexism, BIPOC mental health issues, and social media addiction, front woman Gerilyn Hayes-McCloskey’s intense singing style engulfs any stage she stands on, asserting dominance and striking attention.”
AUSTIN MONTHLY
“Hitting you like a jackhammer […], you’re left in no doubt that this is going to be an onslaught of the heaviest order.”
the punk site
“Gerilyn Hayes-McCloskey of Bondbreakr is a formidable, foreboding, and ferocious experience -- imagine a hybrid of black metal with grind/hardcore undercurrents, Afro-futurism, modern dance, performance art, Kabuki theater, and beyond. Stylized, political, and complex, from Austin with powerplay riffage.”
Left of the dial
“Their sound was relentless: hard driving rhythms overlaid by Hayes’ monster vocals kept us transfixed.”
the cosmic clash
Contact
MANAGEMENT
Angry Tooth Records
G. M. Hayes-McCloskey
angrytoothrecords@gmail.com
BOOKING
Angry Tooth Records
Ciaran McCloskey
angrytoothrecords@gmail.com