If you’ve been around the South Florida scene long enough, you might swear you’ve seen Death by Holiday before and you’d be partly correct. PureHoney sat down with drummer Nacho to talk about the punk trio of himself, Scam and Dice emerging brand new from a school of Hialeah and Miami bands going back decades — The Brand, Haochi Waves, Humbert and more. As Death By Holiday play out to celebrate their caustic but very humane self-titled debut album, we hope this helps clear things up!

Death By Holiday is a decisive turn away from the music of The Brand. Please explain.

We were never actually “in” The Brand. Those guys were doppelgängers. We were pulling the strings, though, blasting Dead Milkmen and driving them to shows. You can say it’s a turn towards who we’ve always been. Also, when Dice joined our outfit, we had to dumb it down a little.

“Nanogators, “ “Employee of the Month” — I detect a through line of disillusionment in these new songs. Where does that come from?

When you grow up listening to the likes of Woody Guthrie, The Clash, and The Dead Milkmen, you really don’t have much of a choice but to stand up and say “things are fucked” when things are fucked.

Give us some tips for people visiting your home base of Hialeah.

“Check out the Leah Arts District to get your art on — Oye Hialeah for vegan Cuban pastries. If you need to record anything, head to Ferny at The Shack North for great sound and some Hialeah musical history. Or, go into any mom-and-pop cafeteria, and you won’t be disappointed.

What’s next for Death By Holiday?

Intergalactic stardom of course. But maybe we’ll be deported first, I don’t know. I know we’re due for some colonoscopies or mammograms or something like that. If we’re not dying, then we’ll likely make some more records. Maybe we tour, but I don’t know, Scam doesn’t like leaving his house.

Death by Holiday release show Nov 1 at Churchills’s Pub in Miami, Nov 15 at My Mamas in Dania, Nov 29 at Propaganda in Lake Worth Beach. deathbyholiday.bandcamp.com  ~ Tim Moffatt