The Death Set

The Death Set (also spelled TheDeathSet or The DeathSet) is a music group originally formed mid 2005 in Sydney, Australia by Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco, who passed away in late September 2009. Just six months after its inception it moved to the East Coast of the United States spending most of its time in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia where the band found more of an audience for its style of spastic, cross genre, punk rock. The band fuse punk rock sound and energy, electronic music production and hip hop style sampling into their recordings, and their live shows are most notably high energy events, often playing at crowd level with the audience surrounding them.

The band was originally formed by Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco sharing vocal, guitar and production duties. The current lineup also features Jahphet Landis on drums and Daniel Walker on guitar and vocals.

They have toured the United States, Australia, Japan, Europe, Scandinavia, China and the United Kingdom numerous times including spots at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, the Reading and Leeds Festivals in the United Kingdom, Dour Festival in Belgium, Oya Festival in Norway, North by Northeast music conference in Canada and three years showcasing at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas. Their debut album "Worldwide" was released July 4th, 2008 on Counter Records, the rock inprint of acclaimed U.K. label Ninja Tune.

The Baltimore City paper labeled them the best live band of 2007 and after their performance at the 2008 Reading and Leeds Festivals, influential U.K. music magazine NME touted them as the #1 biggest hope of the future. Their debut album "Worldwide" was widely praised in the alternative music press including Artrocker Magazines album on the month and Allmusic's album pick.