The Death Set hails from Gold Coast, Australia, where Johnny Siera met Beau Velasco in 2005. The duo united to write fleeting songs with lifelong hooks and overdriven melody. Hell-bent on touring tirelessly, The Death Set moved Stateside to the gnarly streets of Baltimore where they would thrive.

The Death Set released the To (2006, Rabbit Foot) and Rad Warehouses Bad Neighborhoods (2007, Morphius) EPs shortly after arriving in Baltimore -- putting relentless momentum to record, and honing their jury-rigged sound. The Death Set quickly became known for out-of-hand live shows, flooring audiences and themselves in kind, carrying that frenzied energy onto its first full-length recording.

Worldwide, the debut album on Ninja Tune’s Counter Records (2008), fully fills twenty-five minutes with eighteen breakneck songs. From the timeless call-to-upraise-arms of “Negative Thinking”, through the rallying anthem of “Intermission”, The Death Set exploits consonance to the maximum.

Johnny cites that energy as The Death Set’s reason for being, and their tight-knit community as the fuel to keep going. Shored up by the arrival of Jah Landis on drums (Santigold, Amanda Blank, Spank Rock), and fellow Aussie DanWalker (Nine Lives) on guitar and vox, the trio finds itself tighter with every earthly circuit. 2008-09 brought hundreds of shows, a remix/party platform called The Death Set Reset, the deluxe reissue of their first two EPs, Rad Warehouses To Bad Neighborhoods – and tragedy, as the band lost their founding member and brother Beau Velasco, who had taken a back seat from touring to focus on his artwork and tattooing. The band and its community drew close together and rebounded quickly, leading The Death Set to the precipice of its next adventure. The anticipated follow-up to Worldwide is on its way in 2010 with Positive Mental Attitude at the helm.

The Death Set has shared the road with Japanther, Best Fwends, Dan Deacon, Ponytail, Girl Talk, Bonde Do Role, Spank Rock, Ninjasonik, and many more.

Touted as the #1 biggest hope of the future by NME, The Death Set jams blindsiding minute-songs into compact spaces. Bastions of every riotous warehouse party Brooklyn outward, the band plays on the floor and at crowd level. With accelerant fuzz atop lo-fi electronics, searing vocals over-scored by a lift of positivity, The Death Set redefine the space of the anthem, and take it Worldwide.