With a genre-blurring imaginative and prescient and a drive for uncooked honesty, Holy Wars element the heart-breaking circumstances that led to their formation and their mission to offer hope to anybody who may have it.

Music is a strong factor.

With the power to convey individuals collectively and supply consolation in occasions of loneliness, the suitable track might help you discover your home on this planet, and even present the energy to deal with insurmountable tragedy.

It’s a form of magic that LA-based duo Holy Wars are all too conscious of. Comprised of vocalist Kat Leon and guitarist/producer Nick Perez, the musicians united following the lack of Kat’s dad and mom in 2015. Battling unimaginable grief, their debut EP ‘Mom Father’ documented a interval of deep therapeutic, marking the beginning of their distinctive journey.

“After that EP got here out, we didn’t actually know what to say subsequent. Nothing appears as essential as speaking in regards to the loss and placing out a message like that,” Kat begins.

“We have been taking part in these songs each night time, and it was exhausting to maintain reliving it. We might see individuals tearing up within the viewers, and it was an honour to know that we made them really feel secure sufficient to precise their feelings, however we wished to see individuals shifting and headbanging to our music. We wished to assist them really feel one other form of catharsis.”

Fusing components of other rock, punk, nu-metal and hip-hop with earworm pop melodies, since making their stay debut in 2021, Holy Wars have been in a state of fixed evolution. Adopting a boundaryless imaginative and prescient that has left document labels and reserving brokers baffled as to the best way to market the shapeshifting duo, for Kat and Nick – every track is an opportunity to inform a brand new story.

“We discover uncooked emotion in our music, however generally songs which might be emotionally gut-wrenching may be arduous to hearken to. The problem is discovering other ways to create that feeling,” Nick nods.

“We’re at all times rising as people, and music has been a giant a part of that for me. It’s helped me be taught who I’m and the way I match into this world,” Kat provides.

“The perfect songs make you are feeling a number of feelings. I really like when the music makes you are feeling empowered, however the lyrics break your coronary heart. I search for that depth within the music I hearken to, and that rawness is important to Holy Wars as a result of our inception got here from essentially the most susceptible place possible.”

No matter sounds they discover, and whether or not they’re delivering anthems of grief or self-belief, that sense of vulnerability underpins every thing that Holy Wars do. Decided to by no means succumb to predictability, the duo are proving that if you put your most genuine self out into the world – great issues can occur.

“As I’m getting older, I’m acutely aware of what I’m carving out in the course of the brief time that I’m on this earth,” Kat finishes.

“I wish to make individuals really feel empowered, and I wish to give them a house. I really feel like an orphan day by day, and I wrestle with melancholy, however I don’t consider any of us are alone in the best way we really feel. Once I sing about it, it feels narcissistic at first, however after I see the optimistic affect it has on individuals, I do know I have to hold going. It’s what I’m right here for.”

Holy Wars’ new EP ‘Cult Traditional’ is out now.