Following the news that the mighty UNIDA have reformed and will be headlining this year's Desert Fest in London and Berlin comes the announcement that HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES, the band featuring Unida members Arthur Seay and Mike Cancino, will also perform at the festival. The band play the Electric Ballroom, Camden on April 27th.

"House Of Broken Promises deliver across the board with lock-up-yer-daughters cojones-rock bent on leaving tire marks and bruises to remember them by" - StonerRock.com

Originally formed in Indio, CA in 2004 following the break-up of Unida, HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES are the another branch of the desert-rock family tree that includes Kyuss, Slo Burn, Queens Of The Stone Age and the newly-renamed Vista Chino. Their debut album, "Using The Useless" is an uncompromising slab on incendiary hard rock that takes the listener on a fast-paced dirt-bike ride across the dusty, rocky expanse of Death Valley, yet somehow manages to maintain its accessibility through radio-friendly hooks.

Tracklisting:

Blister
Obey The Snake
Physco Plex
Highway Grit
Justify
Torn
Buried Alive
Broken Life
Walk On By
Ladron (Spanish version)
The Hurt (Paid My Dues)

Much more than a side-project, HOBP's huge guitar sounds, thunderous drums and intense, powerful vocals combine to produce grime-soaked biker-metal at its very best. The undeniably catchy first single, "Obey The Snake", grooves and swaggers with attitude, pulling together Sons Of Anarchy-style aggression over an AC/DC stomp.

With echoes of Monster Magnet and Corrosion Of Conformity, as well as Seay and Cancino's trademark Unida grit, HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES takes the key underground elements of the pair's legendary stoner-rock band and drags them into the mainstream whilst remaining unapologetically heavy. US reviews of the album "Using The Useless" have been universally glowing, praising the power of the band's pull-no-punches sound.

"A fucking diamond in the rough" - Metal Sucks

"One stone cold, bad ass, hard rock record." - Record Of The Month, The Cutting Edge

"Buy this album NOW! Otherwise the rest of the world is going to leave you in the dust." Blood Slayer

"The entire album rocks start to finish." - Ripple Magazine

Desert Fest 2013 finally gives European audiences their first chance to see the band live and, with Seay and Cancino also playing an exclusive UNIDA headline set later in the day, those left feeling incomplete after UNIDA's premature demise in the early 00's are set for a unique opportunity to witness a masterclass in the evolution of the desert-rock sound direct from the genre's architects.

"Using The Useless" gets its UK release on May 13th. 

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Emma Watson
FifteenThree PR
07768 636 500 / emma@fifteenthree.com / @fifteenthreepr