The Helltones were conceived in the waning months of 2016 in Oakland, California by high school friends and bandmates Darwin Siegaldoud and Paul Bowman. Having played in a handful of savage punk bands and achieving a degree of notoriety in the infamous Butch Nasty & the Blackout Kids, the boys wanted to continue playing together but were getting tired of the overdoses and arrests that go hand in hand with the punk scene. They wanted a band with enough bite to be meaningful which wouldn't scare their mothers away. So they came up with The Helltones, a band which effortlessly walks the line between the sultry and the savage. After toying around with a few different lineups, the group took on its current form with Shane Lawton on bass, Nathan Moody on lead guitar, and Victoria Seppe singing backup. They've been moving audiences all around the greater Bay Area ever since, playing at mainstays like Bottom of the Hill, The Starline, and Eli's Mile High Club. Now two and a half albums deep, their sound has matured into a toe-tapping, hip-swaying coil of smoke that is guaranteed to melt the hearts and faces of any audience.
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