If you try to discuss music with words then you try and define something that is really indefinable –it's music.  

While the world seems more insistent on black and white rather than every shade of grey in between, music isn't like that.   “It's not like math,” comments Jared Gomes, (hed)p.e. vocalist, “it has shades of different colors all at the same time, and that's why it's so powerful.”   It's along the same rationale that Albert Einstein used to think in both imagery and music.   And it's the same shades of colors in between that help make it virtually impossible to describe (hed)p.e. as anything short of “psychotic.”   They are not a sound bite.

To that end (hed)p.e.'s newest release, Insomnia , is an exhibition in fusion between punk rock, hip hop, jazz, reggae, heavy metal, and thrash.   Insomnia can't be labeled and it can't be described in words, in fact, to accurately write about Insomnia and its influences would take more than a page, with each bar of music containing a potpourri of genres.   And that's not to say (hed)p.e. has stopped pushing the musical envelope, straying further into the musical taboo than the mainstream.   “There's other times when we try and make it obvious,” notes Jared on (hed)p.e.'s lack of complacency fitting into a scene.   “It's more of a bipolar thing where we're going straight from pure punk into pure hip hop.”   That may not be standard, but they do it anyway.

Touring on Back 2 Base X , (hed)p.e. recalls seeing a new jolt of enthusiasm in their fans, likening what they saw to the electrified punk pits of the seventies.   (hed) wanted to keep the elements of punk found in Base X , but they also set out for a darker and heavier record, continuing where they left off not only musically but thematically as well.   “We've been going through this evolution for like two and half years when myself and Jackson were embracing seventies punk like the Sex Pistols and Clash .   That's why Back 2 Base X seemed like such a departure, because of the punk influence.   On this album Jackson combined that with a Slayer , thrash influence and came up with a whole new thing.   I love this.” (Read the entire bio)