History

Finally, in the summer of 2010, He Who Cannot Be Named released his first solo album titled “Sunday School Massacre” to rave reviews. AMP called it one of the most important punk rock releases in recent memory, and went on to say that it is everything you would come to expect from the guy responsible for most of the nasty riffs that kicked your ass when you were back in high school”.

Hewho’s second album, “Humaniterrorist” was released in October 2012. This collection of songs continued where the first album left off, with Hewho’s own style of short, fast and funny punk. A music video from one of the songs on this album, “Getting Pissed” was released around the same time

In August of 2013 He Who Cannot Be Named returned to the UK. This time he appeared twice at the “Rebellion Festival” in Blackpool. For this exclusive appearance he was reunited with UK drummer Spike Smith.

2016 saw the release of Hewho’s third album, “My Degeneration” on Extra Medium Fidelity Records. This record saw the addition of San Francisco musicians Keith Mueller (Bite) on lead guitar, Mark Adams (Black Furies ) on drums, and Mike Wampler on bass.

Chris Barrows

The collaboration between Hewho and Florida punk legend Chris Barrows (Pink Lincolns) started around this time as well. Barrows sings lead vocals on a few He Who Cannot Be Named tracks from this period and Hewho played Farfisa organ on Chris Barrow’s albums “Human Being” (2014) and “Fake” ( 2016).

In 2015 A split 7” with the songs “Be My Girl” and “Human Being” by Barrows and “Don’t Tie Me Down” and “Pica” by He Who Cannot Be Named was released on Extra Medium Fidelity Records.

A 7” with the songs “Lovedoll” and “Donna Tossico” came out around this time as well.

Hewho’s fourth album, “The Good, The Bad, and The Brutal” was released in the fall of 2018. Krazy Keith Mueller again appears on lead guitar with the addition of drummer Diablo and bassist Bobby Ramone. This album is a collection of songs, half with the word Good in the title and half with the word Bad. It also features guest vocal appearances by Spike Slawson (Me First and the Gimme Gimmes), Chris Barrows (Pink Lincolns) Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag) and Nick Oliveri (Dwarves, Mondo Generator, Queens of the Stone Age). Two songs in this collection were co-witten with bay area punk singer/songwriter Dustin Umberger (Grim Deeds) who also sang on the album.

A few months before the world as we knew it ended, Hewho and his band toured Spain in November 2019. An exclusive 7” release of 4 rare versions of his songs was put out by the Spanish label Ghost Highway Records. A live video was also made of the song Duct Tape Love.

In 2019 a live album split with Florida Legends “The Pink Lincoln’s” featuring long time friend and collaborator Chris Barrows was released.

Hewho released a collection of Instrumental Music in October 2020. These short pieces were performed with Toy Instrument sounds. The album was released exclusively on Bandcamp

This curious album appeared under the  name of He Who Cannot Be Named in December 2021 with an exclusive release on the Pop Punk Bandcamp label, “Lap Top Records”. Indeed it is a collection of children’s songs Hewho claims to have penned along with his mother.  Hmmm….

Ambient music? Could it get any weirder than that? Yes He Who Cannot Be Named has an ambient electronic album called Dirty Air. It was released on Bandcamp in 2021.

Very little is known about Hewhocannotbenamed’s actual identity.  Some say he is a high ranking corrupt GOP politician, or an undercover agent for a foreign government. He has been banned from venues al over the world and Interpol reportedly has an ongoing warrant out for his immediate arrest on undisclosed charges. He rarely appears in public and very few have seen him without a mask. There have been numerous reports of Hewho impersonators spotted all over the world, especially when The Dwarves play live shows. It has even been suggested that He Who Cannot Be Named does not really and is in fact merely a rock legend. Perhaps Hewho himself is an imposter. We will probably never know for sure.