Hyro
Seasons come and go. Trends pop and deflate. Careers rise and fall. Genres of music live and die. Once in awhile, an artist steps up who doesn't quite follow the cycle. He doesn't pay heed to "What's cool." He doesn't give a shit about "Who's hot." He doesn't follow the zeitgeist but, rather, the zeitgeist follows him. Hyro Da Hero is about to flip rap upside down, inside out and all around.
Currently creating an industry buzz like a disrupted beehive - Los Angeles based purveyor of Gangsta Rock - Hyro Da Hero will be coming to the UK this Spring as special guest on The Blackout UK tour. His debut album, Birth, School, Work, Death will be released in April.
Hyro Da Hero spins his own cycle of hip hop on his debut album Birth, School, Work, Death. Hyro loads rock 'n' roll attitude into explosive, engaging and enthralling rap music. With the crunch of a power chord and the snap of a rhyme, the Houston-bred Los Angeles-based MC spits pure fire. Produced by Ross Robinson the man behind Korn, Slipknot and At the Drive-in's legendary debuts Birth, School, Work, Death sounds like Tupac fronting Rage Against the Machine.
Hyro's band Daniel Anderson [guitar, Idiot Pilot], Paul Hinojos [bass, At The Drive-In/Sparta/The Mars Volta] and Blood Brothers' Cody Votolato [guitar] and Mark Gajadhar [drums] certainly have the pedigree to pummel as well. Guttural riffs feed into razor-sharp rhymes, building a sound that's as introspective as it is infectious. Hyro da Hero fires off one aural grenade after another whether it's violent punk-funk vibrancy of "Sleeping Giants" or the sugary bitch-slap of "We Still Popular". Across the album, Hyro experiments with a myriad of styles from the psyched-out pop of "Man in My City" to his call-to-arms, "Grudge, where he proudly declares, "I ain't Lil Wayne."
This is hip hop like you've never heard.
Be sure to catch this incredible, genre-bending artist at one of the following shows:
March:
28th Brighton, Concorde 2
29th Oxford, O2 Academy 2
20th Liverpool, O2 Academy 2
April:
1st Cork, Cypress Avenue
2nd Dublin, Academy
3rd Belfast, Speakeasy Bar
5th Glasgow, Garage
6th Edinburgh, Liquid Room
7th Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumbria University Student Union
8th Manchester, O2 Academy 2 (Sold Out)
9th Birmingham, HMV Institute (Sold Out)
10th Norwich, Waterfront
12th London, KOKO
13th Bournemouth, Old Fire Station
14th Plymouth, White Rabbit
16th Cardiff, Solus University
17th Nottingham, Rock City - Hit The Deck Festival