"Connecting with the crowd no matter where we play is huge for us. Bringing them into our world."
Hellaphant is a 4 piece, angst-driven band from London, Ontario, Canada. We don't easily fit into a genre as we are more of a crossover sound. We take influences from all genres and roll them into what we do. We grab the anger and aggression of punk, the feelings of emo, the subjects of metal, rock and alt, and the vocal melodies of pop. Hellaphant grabs your attention right out of the gate and keeps it until the final chord. We play for the song and not the individual. It is an all for one mentality that keeps us in check. The new album "Crumble and Rise" is a ride through mental health, something that plagues us all on some level. From love lost, to death, to anxieties, it's all there delivered via driving beats, loud guitars and hooky vocal lines. The album was produced, recorded, engineered and mixed by Simon Larochette at Sugar Shack in London, Ontario, mastered by Harry Hess at H-Bomb Mastering in Toronto, and released on Faster and Louder Records. In the end you get "Crumble and Rise". Welcome to the ride.
Hellaphant are:
Garrington Begner-Vocals/Guitar
-Bass
Jesse MacCabe-Drums
Jason Holmes-Lead Guitar
Garrington Begner has been playing guitar and writing music for 35 years. His influences are all over the place from the Monkees, Metallica, Big Drill Car and The Replacements.
Jasson Watts has been playing bass off and on again in his own projects. He joins Hellaphant after playing guitar and singing in Kill Effect.
Jesse MacCabe. His influences are old punk, doom, shoegaze and more. Jesse plays Mapex Drums
Jason Holmes has been playing guitar for 35 years. He previously played lead guitar for the band Reel. His influences are all over the place.
This is our video for the song " Maybe Pain" Filmed and directed by Chris Forrest
Live video captured by Steve Godin at the Bovine
Video for our song Got the Mime off the Crumble ad Rise album Shot by Chris Forrest in our friend Shawns garage and museum of the coolest stuff. :)