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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
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Stephen Hill

“We were supposed to sign our contract, but we had so much champagne celebrating that we forgot”: The story of Human Waste Project, the lost nu metal band who should have been huge

The band Human Waste Project in 1997.

There are many long-forgotten bands from the nu metal era, most of them rightly consigned to fuzzy memories from a bygone time. But amongst the dross of that genre’s C-list there are a few who deserved more – and Human Waste Project are one such example. In fact, they probably didn’t deserve to be considered part of nu metal at all.

Formed in Huntington Beach, California in 1993 by bassist Mike Schartoff, Human Waste Project went through various lineups before settling on drummer Scott Ellis, guitarist Mike Tempesta and body-piercing studio employee Aimee Echo on vocals.

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