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March 26th, 2025 — Continuing on their hot streak this year, House of Protection returns with yet another unrelenting single, "Fire", the second track to arrive off their anticipated sophomore EP, 'Outrun You All', due on May 23rd via Red Bull Records. Fans can stream the new single HERE and watch the music video HERE.

The song does its title justice, serving up thrashing guitars, high-pitched sirens, and emphatic lyrics fuelled by a punk spirit. On the single, the band shares, "The goal with "Fire" was to write something with as much infectious energy as possible. A song that could invoke as much dancing as it does moshing. It's a hard balance to pull off. This has been the one new song we've played on tour before its release and it's already become our favourite to jam live."

House Of Protection - "Fire" (Official Music Video)

Last month, the release of "Afterlife", the lead single from the forthcoming 'Outrun You All' EP, outperformed all previous releases, securing prime placements on Spotify's New Music Friday across key markets in Asia, including Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam—a significant momentum that signals growing support in the region, firmly positioning them as an act to watch in Asia. With increasing industry recognition, their influence and reach are set to expand in the months ahead.

The band featured on "Brain Dead", the lead track from Architects' #1 album, 'The Sky, The Earth, & All Between' last month, which was accompanied by an adrenaline-pumping video. Looking ahead, House of Protection will reunite with both Poppy in April on her US tour and Architects in October during their EU/UK run, sandwiching a slate of major festival plays in Europe over the summer.

Sought-after by some of the most influential collaborators across the scene, House of Protection has not so quietly become a tour de force. In less than a year as a new band, they've skyrocketed to nearly 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify where they earned a spot on the platform's competitive 'Artists to Watch 2025' roster. Their genre-spanning debut EP, 'GALORE', has earned 10 million global streams, achieving Luminate chart positions at #14 on Current Hard Rock Albums and #15 on Alternative New Artist Albums, and made Spotify's 'Artists to Watch 2025' list. The momentum continues into this next project, at a pace that matches their boundless energy.

Stream "Fire" here: hop.ffm.to/fire
Watch the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoCfw0Xkq_0
Pre-order 'Outrun You All' here: hop.ffm.to/outrun

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About House of Protection

Stephen Harrison and Aric Improta might be out of music entirely if they hadn’t discovered a new obsession in 2023—their own band. “We couldn’t be at this point in our careers and be in a band that’s not our favorite band,” Improta explains. After years of commercial and critical success in post-hardcore icons Fever 333, as well as The Chariot and Night Verses respectively, the duo had to put aside all of the striving and stress to reconnect with their first loves as House of Protection. “It’s all gotta be the things we thought were cool as kids”. Incorporating everything from Atlanta trap to UK trip-hop, post-punk and alternative, jock jams and art-rock, filmmaking and skateboarding, House of Protection’s second EP, ‘Outrun You All’, abides by the rule of “if it feels good, do it.” And then do so like your life depends on it.

After releasing their debut EP, 'GALORE', with no rules and no expectations, House of Protection are putting their skin in the game with the highly anticipated 'Outrun You All'. Quite literally, that is — the title is taken from one of Harrison’s many tattoos, a lyrical homage to Converge’s 2004 classic “Black Cloud”. 'Outrun You All' is an autonomous, bold statement as well as a “night time” companion piece to 'GALORE', a completion to an era of unbridled inspiration and creativity. Or, what the second disc of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was to its first: the darks are darker, the pretty moments are prettier, the risks are riskier.

The common denominator for all of this is an earned artistic confidence borne from the rapturous reception of 'GALORE'. Though it was hardly a surprise that House of Protection was warmly greeted by fans of Harrison and Improta’s previous bands, 'GALORE' immediately and organically attracted attention outside the realm of American hardcore. Within less than a year, House of Protection received critical raves from NME, The Guardian and Revolver and were named a Spotify Artist to Watch. The success of 'GALORE' granted House of Protection the freedom to not be experts, to chase the new and interesting over the familiar. 'Outrun You All' is filled with moments of House of Protection surprising themselves as much as the listener. “I always appreciate Quentin Tarantino saying, ‘if you’re going to write a good story, you can't know where it's going to go,” Improta notes.

Though a celebration of House of Protection’s burgeoning confidence, there’s a poignant undercurrent in its EP title that goes beyond a nod to their musical heroes. 'Outrun You All' is as much a tribute to the peers and friends who couldn’t join them on this strange and exciting new path. “We've had a lot of conversations about how hard it is to watch people with potential just give up on what they're doing,” Improta says. “I don’t think that will ever be our reality. We match each other’s enthusiasm every day and we know the best is still yet to come”. Indeed, 'Outrun You All' is the sound of Improta and Harrison catching their second wind and House of Protection just getting started.