Party Killer

Given their name there’s nothing shocking about Party Killer’s tendency to push several exhilarating buttons at once. Sonic provocateurs at heart, the Portland based band has accumulated ringing endorsements from rock stars, accolade imbued bewilderment from local weeklies and caustic criticisms from unsolicited strangers.

Post-punk icon and esteemed musicologist Julian Cope described Party Killer's self titled album as "colossal" while drawing correlations to Monoshock and Chrome. Casey Jarman of Willamette Week described their sound as "art so high that most listeners will never see the top or a collection of musicians who sincerely do not give a fuck” and Robert Ham of the Portland Mercury succinctly coined them as “unholy improvisational terror.”

Improvisation is their essence. For over a decade Party Killer has literally crafted hundreds of songs from scratch before live audiences, striving to create compositions on the fly strong enough to imply they were written beforehand. Like a Kaiju fighting mecha-MacGyver Party Killer thrills at the unknown nature of each unwritten path, exuding infectious energy and invention at ever turn.

Ben Language / feedback drum, analog synth, sampler
Midtownriot aka RMG / 21st century synth, sampler, vox/vocoder, visual propaganda
Def Rob B / guitar, radio, wooden bowl, bells & whistles
Outer Alien / drums

Portland, OR