Bingkai Karya – Boundary-pushing heavy duo House of Protection (Aric Improta and Stephen Harrison) has announced their second EP, ‘Outrun You All’, out May 23rd with Red Bull Records. Kicking off the project is the first single, “Afterlife”, out now via Red Bull Records.
Collaborating again with close friend and producer Jordan Fish (formerly of Bring Me The Horizon), the song sees them dial down the tempo without losing an ounce of the explosive energy they’ve become known for. From the brazen lyrics to the layers of electronic elements sandwiched between deafening riffs, “Afterlife” is a testament to House of Protection’s individuality. “
‘Afterlife’ was the second song we demoed, right after “It’s Supposed to Hurt”. It started with just the guitar stab and the whip sound. We liked it a lot—” the band shared on the making of the single.
The song’s release is accompanied by a music video where the opening scene is set by a rubber-suited dominatrix who lures viewers into a frenetic dream sequence of mind-bending visuals and performance shots.
Last year, House of Protection broke out with their genre-spanning debut EP, ‘GALORE’, to critical acclaim from the likes of The Guardian, Kerrang!, Revolver, and more. In less than a year as a new band, they lived up to the hype and sold out their first two shows, earned 10 million global streams, Luminate chart positions at #14 on Current Hard Rock Albums and #15 on Alternative New Artist Albums, and made Spotify’s ‘Artists to Watch 2025’ list.
House of Protection has quickly became one of heavy music’s most sought-after collaborators so far this year with their feature on British metalcore band Architects’ song, “Brain Dead”, set to be released as part of their highly anticipated upcoming album.
About House of Protection
Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta might be out of music entirely if they hadn’t discovered a new obsession in 2023—their own band. “We couldn’t be at this point in our careers and be in a band that’s not our favorite band,” Improta explains. After years of commercial and critical success in post-hardcore icons Fever 333, as well as The Chariot and Night Verses respectively, the duo had to put aside all of the striving and stress to reconnect with their first loves as House of Protection. “It’s all gotta be the things we thought were cool as kids”. Incorporating everything from Atlanta trap to UK trip-hop, post-punk and alternative, jock jams and art-rock, filmmaking and skateboarding, House of Protection’s second EP, ‘Outrun You All’, abides by the rule of “if it feels good, do it.” And then do so like your life depends on it.
After releasing their debut EP, ‘GALORE’, with no rules and no expectations, House of Protection are putting their skin in the game with the highly anticipated ‘Outrun You All’. Quite literally, that is — the title is taken from one of Harrison’s many tattoos, a lyrical homage to Converge’s 2004 classic “Black Cloud”. ‘Outrun You All’ is an autonomous, bold statement as well as a “night time” companion piece to ‘GALORE’, a completion to an era of unbridled inspiration and creativity. Or, what the second disc of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was to its first: the darks are darker, the pretty moments are prettier, the risks are riskier.
The common denominator for all of this is an earned artistic confidence borne from the rapturous reception of ‘GALORE’. Though it was hardly a surprise that House of Protection was warmly greeted by fans of Harrison and Improta’s previous bands, ‘GALORE’ immediately and organically
attracted attention outside the realm of American hardcore. Within less than a year, House of Protection received critical raves from NME, The Guardian and Revolver and were named a Spotify Artist to Watch. The success of ‘GALORE’ granted House of Protection the freedom to not be experts, to chase the new and interesting over the familiar. ‘Outrun You All’ is filled with moments of House of Protection surprising themselves as much as the listener. “I always appreciate Quentin Tarantino saying, ‘if you’re going to write a good story, you can’t know where it’s going to go,” Improta notes.
Though a celebration of House of Protection’s burgeoning confidence, there’s a poignant undercurrent in its EP title that goes beyond a nod to their musical heroes. ‘Outrun You All’ is as much a tribute to the peers and friends who couldn’t join them on this strange and exciting new path. “We’ve had a lot of conversations about how hard it is to watch people with potential just give up on what they’re doing,” Improta says. “I don’t think that will ever be our reality. We match each other’s enthusiasm every day and we know the best is still yet to come”. Indeed, ‘Outrun You All’ is the sound of Improta and Harrison catching their second wind and House of Protection just getting started.
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