Aric Improta and Stephen Harrison AKA House of Protection unveil their debut single, "It’s Supposed To Hurt"

On the meaning behind House of Protection, Aric Improta says, “‘Protection’ was specifically chosen because it’s a Massive Attack song and I was reading their biography as we started this project. It was very inspiring when it came to us initiating this whole thing. The full name is because we wanted to build something that protected our creativity and ideas as well as the people that come to the shows.”

Their debut single, "It’s Supposed To Hurt" sees the duo sing for the first time in their careers – discovering a voice neither knew they had, over the track which is produced by Jordan Fish (Bring Me The Horizon).

On the origins of the single, the band shares, “‘It’s Supposed To Hurt’ was the first song we wrote. Some of the vocals were from our initial improvisations. When we started this, we had no idea how we would sound or where we wanted to take it. Neither of us had sung before, we just knew the energy we wanted to create sonically and that we’d put in whatever time it took to get it to feel right. Fortunately, this song answered a lot of those questions instantly.”