Party Wounds

Party Wounds is an expiermental metal band, from London, England. They have slowly become known due to their use of female vocalist Eva Smith’s screamed vocals, which are uncommon and unique. Formed in 2008, the band has recently come into fame due to their relationship with metalcore act The Verdict Is Vengeance.
==Early years, Demo EP's, First signs of fame (2008 - 2010)==
Party Wounds was originally a band known as Thisistheway, which contained current members Eva Smith, James Smith and Joey Drake, alongside two unknown members. The original styling of the band was a basic metal band, with female vocals provided by Eva. After playing as Thisistheway for the majority of 2008, the two other members left the band due to creative differences, and the remaining members gathered Michael Barrett and David Hindley, then changed their name to Party Wounds and began to change in musical styling towards a progressive hardcore sound. Eva Smith started to learn to scream, as did James Smith, who also started to play keyboard/synth, Joey Drake began to change his style of drumming, and Michael Barrett and David Hindley played their bass/guitar parts.
Early response from audiences was mixed, with some members of the audience claiming that the lack of musical structure was a reason not to like the band, but many became fans, and the band gained a quick local fan base. Due to a vastly rising fan base, the band began to take the idea more seriously, and they all dropped out of college to focus on the band full time (apart from James who is two years older). In early 2009, the band started to record for their first Demo EP, which was recorded in the Smith household and was of very low sound quality. The band published the EP for free from their myself account and gained over 15,000 downloads within the first few days, and the began to become known as one of the up and coming unsigned bands of 2009. With this knowledge, the band started to tour the UK, headling a tour across the UK, selling out nearly every venue they played. In August 2009 they released their second Demo EP, which was titled We Are Destroyed and contained 5 new songs that the band had written and performed whilst touring, it was reviewed by Kerrang! who gave it 3K's out of a possible 5, saying "the use of harmozied screams from the Smith siblings gave a great touch to the use of synth influenced metal songs." Soon after this EP was released via iTunes and the band's website and sold well, and was well recieved by fans, who couldn't wait to hear more. The band started to become well known, and during this stage of their career they were offered many different record deals, some with huge names and many smaller named record labels, all which where refused by the band.
In 2010, the band recorded for their final Demo EP, titled PARTY WOUNDS!, the EP contained 5 new songs, all which seemed to be better than the previous EP, in both song quality, and musical ability. They sent the EP to many record labels, in hope of finding the perfect deal. Whilst waiting for replies from these labels, they toured the UK again, playing with bands such as Enter Shikari and A Day To Remember, at one of these shows Robert Williams from The Verdict Is Vengeance, spotted the band, and they began to start talking. The band have since shot into the mainstream metal-eye, and will be writing and recording for their studio debut EP, titled The Razor Teeth EP.
==Band members==
===Current members:===
*Eva Smith - Clean Vocals, Screamed Vocals (Since 2008)
*David Hindley - Lead Guitar (Since 2008)
*Michael Barrett - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals (Since 2008)
*James Smith - Screamed Vocals, Synths, Samples (Since 2008)
*Joey Drake - Drums, Purcussion (Since 2008)
==Discography==
===EP's===
*Untitled Demo EP [Demo] (2009)
*We Are Destroyed EP [Demo] (2009)
*PARTY WOUNDS! EP [Demo] (2010)