Human Waste Project

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Human Waste Project
Origin	Huntington Beach, California, United States
Genre(s)	Art Rock
Years active	1993 - 1998
Label(s)	Hollywood Records
Associated acts	theSTART, Powerman 5000, Professional Murder Music
Members
Aimee Echo Mike Tempesta Jeff Schartoff Scott Ellis
Former members
John Monte

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Human Waste Project was a band from Huntington Beach, California with Aimee Echo on vocals, Mike Tempesta on guitar, Jeff Schartoff on bass, and Scott Ellis on drums. They released their album E-lux in 1997 and broke up soon after.

[edit] History

Friends Jeff Schartoff and Scott Ellis, while on the way to Lollapalooza, decided to start a band. They then drafted Aimee Echo as vocalist after asking if she could scream. John Monte joined as guitarist but did not last long and they went through a string of guitarists before finding Mike Tempesta. The group began opening for large name bands such as Sublime, Helmet, Deftones, and Korn and struck a deal with Hollywood Records. The band also toured the UK with Tura Satana and Coal Chamber respectively in 1997 before playing the UK Ozzfest in June 1998. Their last show was at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on July 8, 1998.

On Aimee Echo's birthday (March 27th, 2008) after theSTART played their last residency day at Crash Mansion in Los Angeles, the former members of Human Waste Project came on stage and played two songs ("Dog" and "Shine") with Aimee Echo. It is not clear if this is a one time situation or a reforming of the band. Also in attendance were former members of Snot, Sevendust, Craig Riker of Deadsy, producer Ross Robinson and Chibi of The Birthday Massacre.