KHP have been working hard in the studio to bring you their very first EP titled "55°C". It was recorded at S.I.S Records in Salt lake City by Toby Seljass.

Originally this was only going to be a 6 song EP of all original KHP songs, But when we got into the studio, we worked through the songs a lot faster that we had planned. We had a little bit of extra time in the budget and decided to throw in another song. We decided to do the Tom Jones cover "Delilah" because it is just a fun song that we really want to share with you all.

We chose 6 of our own songs to put on this EP, and they are all songs that we really feel best portray the different styles that we love to play. We have a slower song like "Blood Stays On The Blade" a fast hip-hop style song called "Leadlight Iris" with some good rock and ambient songs inbetween. The actual album track listing is as follows:

1. First Sight



2. Blood Stays On The Blade



3. Direction



4. Volar Alto



5. Only This



6. Delilah (Tom Jones Cover)



7. Leadlight Iris

Right now the album is available for download at our Reverbnation store (Click Here) for only $5 or you can buy each individual track for $0.99 each. We are offering a download of the song "Delilah" for free here just to give you a preview. While you are there you can preview all of the songs streaming before you buy. For now, the album is only available on disk at our live shows, but we are working on making it available for both download and an actual CD on itunes and amazon soon. Thank you all for being so patient with the release of this album. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we enjoyed recording it.

One of the most important things for a band to have of course is musical talent and ability, but eventually you get to the point where your sound is only as good as the equipment that you use. KHP is a band that is full of talent, but has been limited on the quality of the instruments, that is, until now. Yesterday, we showed up to practice to see that Jason Gough had just bought a beautiful brand new DW drum kit complete with a full set of new cymbals. It sounds INCREDIBLE!!! But that is not all, Clint Brace has been having trouble with his amp that he has had for years, it has been in and out of the shop with problems and just seemed to not be able to stay in running order. Clint showed up to practice last night with a brand new Vox amp. Both Jason and Clint are finally playing instruments that match the quality of their talents. Now it is time to hit the studio. When trying to record before, be ran into a lot of problems getting the great sound we want with the instruments that KHP had. Now there is no holding us back. I can't wait to be posting about the studio and the progress. We will definitely keep you posted

Sorry everyone that I haven't updated this with any new blogs, sometimes I have a hard time deciding what band news is blogworthy. Then when I think about it, I realize that everyone deserves to hear about anything going on with the band!

There are a couple of good things I want to share with you. The first is an upcoming show that we will be playing that we are very excited about. Along with fellow local bands "Kiss me, Kill me" and "ECS" we will be opening for "Caroline's Spine" on November 27th at Club Vegas in SLC. We really feel like this will be a really good show for us. We are a good fit with these bands so I have to give a good shout out to Pat at Club Vegas for doing such a good job of fitting bands together. Tickets are $10 and you can contact anyone in the band to get your tickets. We would really appreciate the support on this one.

The next thing I want to share with you all is we finally have a YouTube account up and running and for the last month or so we have been adding live video from the shows we play. Check it out at www.youtube.com/khptheband If you have never been to a show, there is a lot of music on these live videos that isn't on any of our sites. While you are there, subscribe and leave some comments and share with your friends. Thanks all

Well, we have finally made some headway on recording. We have been working on trying to find the right sound and in the process have been completely changing our sound along the road. It has been a long process because we have been working on recording songs, get them recorded and then decide that we weren't happy with the sound that we got. We would make the necessary changes and then start over. Well we feel like we finally got one right. We recorded our song "Blood Stays On The Blade" at Resurrection Studio with Lazarus as the Engineer, and then sent the song to The Analog Room to be mixed by Kevin Smith. We are really happy with the sound. Hopefully you had your sound on while you were reading this blog, if it is then you are probably listening to the final product right now.. If not you can turn on your sound and refresh the page, or go and check it out on our website www.khptheband.com

Now that we have finally found the sound we are looking for, It is going to be a mad dash to get this album finished. As I am sure you all agree, it is long past due! We will slowly be releasing track by track until the album is finished and then we will print them all on a CD. So keep checking back to see what we might have new!

If you haven't already noticed, KHP is a band with no limitations to the type of music that they play. They have written and performed songs touching on lots of different genre. The newest venture touches on the world of hip hop. The band had been working on the music to a new song, and when hearing it, Kristian decided that this song would be perfect to have hip hop verses to it.

Many rock bands have tried to do hip hop and always make it sound cheezy and ungenuine. KHP wanted it to sound as good as possible and so colaborated with a local hip hop MC named "Constable" from the group "Drunken Masters"... Constable wrote the verses to this new song and Kristian wrote the chorus. KHP performed this song at their last show in Ogden and will soon be putting it up on  youtube, so look for the links.. In the meantime, here are the lyrics to the song. The meaning behind the name is fairly simple. Leadlight is another name used for Stained Glass, and Iris of course is part of the human eye, the part said to map the soul.. so in other words "Stained Glass eye"

They are finally ready to go, We now have the new KHP T-Shirts printed and available for all of our fans. We still have to decide what color combinations we will do, but we can now do custom shirts. This design can be printed on a hoodie, a girls fitted shirt, a tank top, or anything else that we can fit it on!

We have one more design that is in the works right now that should be ready at the end of this Thanksgiving weekend. There have been a lot of changes in KHP in the past months and I think that the new shirt designs will reflect our new image and style. So, you can pick your shirt up at the next show, or you can contact us at khptheband@gmail.com to place an order!

Just a quick word to let everyone know what is going on. If you have been following along on the studio process, On Monday we recorded Bass and Lead Guitar for the first track. Tonight we will be recording all of the vocals, and tomorrow Richard Mixin will be laying some DJ Sounds throughout the song. So, wish me luck with my singing tonight.

Also, when looking into making T-shirts for the band and trying to find the best prices, I made the decision that I would print the shirts myself. I ordered a bunch of silk screening supplies and I am going to start working on that this weekend. Right now I have 2 designs that I will be printing. As soon as I get some printed I will post some pictures for you to check out. If you are pretty interested in that process, I will be adding that to the list of things that I blog about on my personal blog http://www.khpkristian.blogspot.com/

We had plans to start recording on Saturday but first we had to close off the wall between the tracking room and the control room, so on thursday all of us went over to the studio and got to work. Right now we just filled in the walls with a special sound obsorbing type of insulation called Mineral Wool. After a couple of really itchy nights we had it all finished.

KHP was asked to play Halloween Weekend at Bogey's in Clearfield. They wanted us to play both Friday night and Saturday night from 6 pm to 10 pm. Friday night was supposed to be a ladies night that they were calling "Witches Night Out" and of course Saturday was the Halloween Party.


We were pretty excited about playing these shows because the pay that we would get from the club would be enough to kickstart our work in the studio and some other things that we have been wanting to get done.

One thing that we were really excited about, was that Brian's cousin had a 32 channel Allen & Heath mixing board that he said we could borrow for the shows. For those of you who know anything about sound, I need not say more. For everyone else, not only does it improve the quality of sound, and ease of use. It is a step up from the mixing board that I had planned to buy in the future! The more exciting part is that after the show, he offered to give us the board in trade for some work that he needed done.. So now when we do our own sound, it will be that much easier to have that professional sound!


You can't have a big night club like this with a live band and not have some kind of drama right? We put together a typical set for us that we have played a handful of times on the patio in the summer, that included a improv freestyle hip-hop song featuring members of our favorite hip-hop group "The Drunken Masters" We had Lazarus and sin both freestyling, we were all having a great time and everyone in the club was loving it. That is everyone except the owner. He told the managers and everyone else that they need to shut us down because he didn't like it! All of the workers of course ran around like the sky is falling and tried to shut us down. Eventually when we wouldn't stop they walked up and gave us the cut throat signal for stop. We finished up the song and continued the rest of the set. For the rest of the set the bouncers kept coming up and telling us to turn it down even though it was the same as it was all night. Well, whatever.


The funniest part about the whole situation is when we were finished, it was time for the DJ to do his thing. And lets see, did he play rock? maybe country? Oldies maybe, because that is what the owner likes? NO, HE PLAYED HIP HOP!!!! A whole lot louder than we did, and it wasn't even good hip hop.


So if you are ever in Bogey's. Go up to the bouncers, the managers, bartenders, and even the owner (if he happens to be sitting at the end of the bar) and tell them how you wish that the awesome band KHP still played there, and that the hip hop song that they did with the drunken masters was one of the coolest things you have ever seen in that bar!