Hmltd

HMLTD is a London art punk band bringing their third album, Fangs, to Birmingham's Hare & Hounds on High Street. This concert is a pop, rock and indie evening in a venue that mainly hosts live music.

HMLTD is a British art punk band formed in London in 2015. Henry Spychalski is the lead vocalist, and the line-up includes guitarist Duc Peterman, bassist Nico Mohnblatt, drummer Achilleas Sarantaris and keyboardist Seth Evans. Their third album, Fangs, follows the 2023 rock opera The Worm and returns to the band's earlier experimental and provocative approach. It reworks the goth genre through post-internet electronic and dance music, with heavy sub-bass, rave-style synths and a funeral-march pulse, and the band describe the project as a new era they call Götterdämmerung.

The band's live shows go well beyond a standard gig. They draw on Wagner's idea of the total artwork, combining elaborate set design, costume, actors and performance artists in immersive, multi-sensory staging that blurs the line between audience and performers. The approach has been developed over the band's near-decade on the London underground music scene.

Hare & Hounds, at 106 High Street, is a Birmingham venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a programme centred on pop, rock and indie music. HMLTD's blend of post-punk, electronic and theatrical elements sits within that focus, and the evening is aimed at listeners who follow experimental rock and performance-led music.