Head Wound City are the thrashing grindcore result of a drunken idea actually brought to life. While drinking after a London show their bands had just played together, the Blood Brothers' Jordan Blilie and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner decided it would be fun to start a band together. Drunken phone calls that night to Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbian, both of the Locust, solidified the lineup, along with fellow Blood Brother Cody Votolato. Spare time was found among everyone's separate commitments, and the band quickly emerged over a week of writing and recording in late February 2005. The outcome was a frenzied seven-song, self-titled EP released that November on Three-One-G.