Manifesting superhuman force through near-magic sonic alchemy, Ho99o9 consistently break free from any and all creative constraints. The duo—theOGM and Yeti Bones —co-mingle genres like chemicals, mixing gloriously hellish hip-hop, basement-born hardcore, future-facing punk, throat-slitting metal, jarring industrial, and off-kilter electronica into a concoction meant to combust the moment you press play or when they hit the stage. As such, the group has quietly haunted the darkest corners of the culture, peeking out with a series of unanimously acclaimed releases, A-list collaborations, and sold-out tours. In 2025, they make a statement with their third full-length album, Tomorrow We Escape, a 999 Deathkult / Last Gang Records/MNRK debut.
“We knew these tunes were emotional, so everything fell into place with the title Tomorrow We Escape,” reveals Yeti Bones. “From there, it was like a flower bloomed. You could be escaping mental issues, problems with drugs, or bad situations. It’s up to the listener.”
“When we started this process, we knew we wanted to make more relatable songs,” adds theOGM. “It was a healthy challenge to focus on emotion. In the past, a lot of our material was politically charged. That element is present to a degree, but we wanted to take a more personal route. This mindset drove how we wrote songs. Everybody has a struggle. The goal is to find motivation for preservation. The New Jersey-bred outfit made its way to Los Angeles over a decade ago. Surging and seething just below the surface, the pair broke through as an apocalyptically fascinating outlier with their 2017 full-length debut, United States of Horror—hailed by DIY as “incomparable to anything else being made right now.” In the meantime, their infamous live shows became the stuff of legend as they packed houses on their own and shared stages with everyone from Slipknot, Korn, Alice In Chains, Rob Zombie, Ministry, and The Dillinger Escape Plan to Lil Uzi Vert, Denzel Curry, Cypress Hill, and Ghostface Killah. Earning the respect of an elite cohort of peers, popular collaborations placed them toe-to-toe with Corey Taylor of Slipknot, The Prodigy, JPEGMAFIA, Ghostemane, HEALTH, 3TEETH, and N8NOFACE, to name a few. Jack Black made an appearance in their KULT CABLE series, while they guested on The Eric Andre Show. Beyond further acclaim from The New York Times, The Quietus, The FADER, Revolver, and more, The New York Times equated Ho99o9 as “An all-out barrage.” They stand out as the rare phenomenon that can decimate Hell Fest and captivate on A COLORS SHOW.
theOGM and Yeti Bones carefully pieced together what would become Tomorrow We Escape. They built its framework in Los Angeles, as well as Paris, taking their time to perfect the vision. theOGM elaborates, “After our last tour, we came back to some of the early ideas we had recorded, and we revamped them. The concept came together, and we fleshed out newer songs. ”
Yeti Bones continues. “We’re old-school music lovers who are used to listening to albums all the way through with no skips. That was our intent.”
The duo introduces this next chapter with “Upside Down.” Produced by Yung Skrrt, frenetic keys crash into a neck-snapping beat. Warped guitars echo beneath woozy melodies as a danceable bassline drives the verses. It climaxes with an omen on the reverb-y refrain, “Spiral going down.”
“Your life is spiraling down,” repeats Yeti Bones. “Everything is going each and every way, and you can’t control it. Heaven is down, Hell is up, and you’re in the middle. You don’t know the way to go, but you’ve got to find your own path.”
theOGM elaborates, “You’re holding up a mirror to yourself and asking, ‘Who are you?’ This is me speaking to myself and questioning my character, failures, ups, and downs. Sometimes, you’ve got to check yourself.”
Then, there’s “Incline.” Over a soundscape from Dave Sitek [TV on the Radio, Jane’s Addiction, Wale], Ho99o9 lock in with Yung Skrrt, The Nova Twins, and Pink Siifu. “We’re busting through the door on this one,” says Yeti Bones.
Blade Runner-style synths pulsate on “Target Practice,” which Sam Matlock of Wargasm and Charlie Russell cooked up. Taking no prisoners, Ho99o9 body the production with grizzled and gritty flows, giving way to a screamed proclamation, “This ain’t metal. This ain’t trap. Give a fuck where you at. Give a fuck where you from. Bitch, I’m telling all the facts.”
“It came out of frustration,” admits theOGM. “The industry tells you, ‘Make this hit. Stand here with this sign’. I’m unapologetically me, and ain’t nobody can tell me what to do. Nobody knows what a hit is. I set the tone..”
“When theOGM spit the chorus, it was like, ‘Oh, that’s how we’re doing it’. He sparked the flame out of nowhere, and I knew I had to come correct,” laughs Yeti Bones.
“Tapeworm” features vocals from Greg Puciatoo, former lead vocalist and lyricist for The Dillinger Escape Plan.
Chelsea Wolfe lends her instantly recognizable vocals to the ghostly “Immortal.” Creaky clean guitar echoes behind a smoky haze as she steps out of a dream and sings, “You my life. You my love. My past my own.”
“The first half is heartbreak,” notes theOGM. “These are the sides of us you don’t normally hear.”
A ticking clock initially sets the tempo on the epic finale “Godflesh.” Reckless riffing and a double bass barrage speed up the punky crescendo topped off with the glitchy chant, “Born dead. God’s flesh.” It serves as an apotheosis in fire. “We end every show with a bang,” theOGM says. “‘Godflesh’ pays homage to some of our old work where we were constantly talking about what’s happening in our country and how we feel about people in charge—who we don’t fuck with. There is nothing you can do to destroy me. You might kill the physical me, but you can’t kill
In the end, this is everything Ho99o9 was always meant to be, and it’s the ultimate escape.
“As much as this record is for new audiences, it’s also for the ride-or-die fans who have rocked with us from the jump,” theOGM leaves off. “The message is, be present.”
“We’re really showing everyone who we are personally,” concludes Yeti Bones. “We bleed the same blood.”
N8NOFACE
N8NOFACE has been described as a Chicano Flannery O’Connor playing chiptune Ministry, the Sleaford Mods of the American Southwest, Suicide for the 21st Century and Ghostmane meets darkwave synthpunk dashed with early Ween’s glue-huffing pop. Lyrically, his sometimes romantic, oftentimes violent storytelling tunes lean toward Narcocorrido, the bloody ballads of Mexican drug cartels. It sounds dark on the surface, but really N8NOFACE’s music is a lot of fun, and as exciting and cathartic as the early days of punk rock and hiphop.
N8NOFACE has been rising rapidly in recent years in no small part due to his charismatic and gregarious personality. As a survivor of drug abuse, he’s a relatable and inspiring role model, onstage and off, for an audience of cool seekers. Just look at his influence and charm attracting the support of stars like Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave), Travis Barker, Fred Durst, Benji Madden, B Real, Fat Mike, Juliette Lewis etc. Additionally N8 has just signed with legendary indie Los Angeles label Stones Throw by the owner of the label Peanut Butter Wolf.
He had his first arena tour in July 2024 as part of Limp Bizkit’s Loserville Tour and did the European leg of Loserville Tour in March 2025. N8 has been playing sold out shows from small to big with his own many headlining dates as well as with Cypress Hill, HO99O9, Juliette Lewis, City Morgue, Bones, Sextile and more.
Nate, or N8, is animated and all over the map when he speaks. But, he always gets straight to the point, just like his music. His songs often clock in around 1-minute long, typically abruptly ending before even repeating a chorus. The songs are built around a few stark, evocative mantra-like lines about life’s struggles over a simple, hummable hook. That he’s so prolific with these 50-60 second dark pop masterpieces is astonishing. “If you can’t explain it simply you don’t know what you’re talking about,” he says.
“I do scream rap, but after that I might pick up a banjo and do outlaw country,” N8 says, discussing the multiple personalities of his music. “I want to do it all. I am a little bit of everything, why can’t I use every frequency to tell those stories?”
N8NOFACE has a new album coming out in October 2026 produced by Dave Sitek that will be out on Stones Throw Records based in Los Angeles. Expect singles to flood the airwaves starting July 2026.
He’s been making and posting glitchy synthpunk since the days of MySpace, when he first gained attention in chiptune duo Crimekillz. Even before the demise of that band, however, N8NOFACE was disseminating his dadaist lo-fi rants online, recording them on the cheap on his home computer setup. “Even to this day, everything I do is recorded in my closet,” he says. “I’ve never recorded at a studio. My goal was always to try to make these genres with the gear that I have, which comes from hip hop. I just do it the wrong way and it comes out my sound.”
N8NOFACE has to date released 5 proper albums io (available on vinyl) — As of Right Now ( 2025) Homicide (2022), Bound To Let You Down (2021), Just Here To Die (2020), Synth Up The Punks (2019) and True Story (2018) — and a slew of EPs, singles, mixtapes and collaborations, many of them with sprawling double-digit track listings. Before relocating to Long Beach, CA around a decade ago, he owned a graffiti & record store in his hometown of Tucson, AZ. It was here that he developed his vast musical taste from grimy hiphop beats to seminal aggressive synth punks The Screamers.
“I grew up around some guys living outside the lines of the law,” N8 explains. “When I first started doing this I called it Narco Punk. I’m not glorifying it, I’m giving both sides of the story. Telling the heartbreaking side of the dark side.” Coming from a hiphop and border town culture, he found it difficult to share his esoteric tastes with friends. “How do I make my friends enjoy this music?” he wondered. “I’ll take some Suicide music and twist it to get my friends to listen to this.”
From the bedroom to the arena, N8NOFACE is an artist setting a whole new standard for DIY music beyond all familiar trappings.
Slay Squad
Emerging from the hazy swelter of San Bernardino County, California collectiveSlaySquadareimplementing the crew dynamic in the space of modern heavy music. Earning their stripes andcultivating a true DIY ethos among Southern California’s discerning underground hardcore ranks,the sextet established their signature of self-coined ‘ghetto metal’ in a way that is resonating withfans of swagger savvy hip-hop and no bullshit deathcore.
