When I moved to Las Vegas years ago, I reopened a few social media accounts and started the familiar process of rebuilding a creative network in a new city. One of those early connections was Chastity, lead singer of Heroine Honey. We first bonded over a shared appreciation for the raw power and emotional depth of Chris Cornell’s vocals — a mutual language that tends to reveal a lot about how someone hears music.
It wasn’t until the launch of SONIQLOOX, though, that we finally found the right moment to collaborate creatively. Looking back now, it feels like the timing couldn’t have been better. This conversation, like the band itself, was worth the wait.
— Danny
Heroine Honey doesn’t just make rock music — they build worlds. Formed in Las Vegas and fueled by equal parts passion, ache, and defiance, the band channels raw emotion into a sound that feels cinematic, unfiltered, and fiercely alive. Fronted by Chastity’s commanding vocals and supported by the melodic instincts of Steven, Brian, and Dylan, Heroine Honey exists in the space where vulnerability collides with power. Their music is honest without being fragile, dramatic without being hollow, and deeply rooted in connection — to each other, to their audience, and to the idea that art should mean something.
ORIGIN + IDENTITY
SNQLX: When Heroine Honey first formed, what was the shared mission or feeling you wanted your music to stand for before you even wrote your first track?
HH: Heroine Honey was formed with the intention of creating a big, organic sound rooted in passion, ache, and honesty, balanced by an undercurrent of rage. From the beginning, the mission has been to make rock music that moves people emotionally while encouraging listeners to pursue their own paths, even when that path goes against societal expectations. The band stands as a voice for the unheard and underestimated.
SNQLX: Your name carries tension, something bold, something sweet. What does Heroine Honey mean to each of you now, after making music together?
Chastity: Heroine Honey is a bleeding heart of emotion that urges you to chase your highest truth and stay true to who you are in a world that pays you to merely survive and pressures you to abandon your dreams to feed its own hunger. It represents the many layers of a woman’s heart, mind, and spirit. The fierceness and the softness, the love and the lust, the empowerment and the vulnerability. It speaks for those who have had to stay resilient, scream to be heard, and carry the weight of being different. Heroine Honey is the hero you do not expect to save the day, but does.
Brian: To me, the name has always been about girl power, and it matches the vulnerability, melodic saccharine, and raw power conveyed in the songs and performances.
Dylan: Our music is high-action, protagonistic, and open-hearted. The name ‘Heroine Honey’ alludes to that for me. We sing and play honest music in behalf of the vulnerable.
Steve: Heroine Honey, to me, sounds like a character in a movie…dangerous and unforgettable. Strength dipped in candy, laced with a little bit of chaos. Our songs live in that cinematic tension: romance with scars on it, beauty framed by horror, and lost love that refuses to go quietly.
After creating together, the name became less of an idea and more of a destination. It’s the world our music lives in and we’re grateful to be on this ride together.
SNQLX: You’re a Las Vegas band, which means you exist in a scene where spectacle and grit collide. How has Vegas shaped the way you create, rehearse, or show up as a unit?
HH: Being in Vegas has given us every incentive to stay organic and true to ourselves as artists and songwriters. It’s easy to get lost here. The city is overflowing with opportunities for musicians…it’s rare to find an original band fully committed to creating original music purely for the sake of art… We never take the connection between the four of us for granted. We show up prepared, professional, and intentional & we rehearse hard and treat every show like it matters, because it does to us. Being surrounded by constant Vegas spectacle has trained us to show up ready every single time…no matter what the venue is, no matter if we are opening up for a bigger band or playing to a room of 20…we honor our band & show up energetic & ready.
Chastity: Vegas lives in a constant state of juxtaposition, and that has absolutely shaped Heroine Honey. I show up on stage in a marabou and glitter because when I moved here, I was enthralled by how dramatic and sparkly everything felt. That aesthetic is carved deep into my bones, but there’s also a thick fog of chaos and sadness in this city that I felt the moment I arrived. I think we all carry that weight in some way. The show must go on though, so like the Strip itself, everything looks better with glitter and feathers…and trust, I’ll be wearing both at every show lol.
SOUND + PROCESS
SNQLX: Your influences range from Nirvana to The Beatles, from Chris Cornell to Queen. How does a band with that many directions decide what sounds like Heroine Honey?
HH: Those bands shaped us collectively and trained our ears when it comes to melody, structure, and dynamics. At the same time, each of us brings very different personal influences to the table, and those differences naturally seep into the music. That blend is what allows us to create something that feels cohesive but still uniquely ours.
SNQLX: The core writing team is Steven and Chastity, but the band has a strong identity as a whole. What does each member bring that the songs cannot exist without?
HH: Brian brings a deep command of music theory, structure, and arrangement. As an extremely gifted multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, he has a remarkable ear for chord voicings and melodic movement. His bass lines are often some of the most memorable elements in our songs, melodic, emotional, and undeniably catchy. His talents and skills definitely refine our sound and add that extra magic that helps round out the originality in the Heroine Honey sound.
Dylan is the perfect balance of being analytically gifted, yet also knowing how to capture the emotion of our songs perfectly. He is an exceptionally skilled drummer, but he always knows exactly how to serve the song. He has an intuitive understanding of dynamics and emotional pacing, and his wide range of influences keeps his parts layered and fresh. He is fearless about thinking outside the box, which constantly pushes the band forward.
We like to joke that Chastity manifested him to be our drummer with a spell, but all jokes aside… it’s true and it was “SO powerful” Steve fell violently ill during the spell…but Dylan arrived the following week sooooo… 🤣
Steven is the dreamer and the spark. He creates the riffs, melodies, and foundational ideas that form the core of the songs. He balances technical fire with emotional purpose, always writing parts that feel essential rather than excessive. His sense of scale and atmosphere brings excitement, hope, heart, and intensity to the music.
Chastity is the heart and voice of the band. Her vocals move from hypnotic and angelic to feral and explosive. Her lyrics are poetic, raw, and emotionally fearless, carrying themes of love, lust, rage, vulnerability, and rebellion. She does not just sing the songs, she embodies them, giving the music its soul and emotional gravity.
At the end of the day, we all share the same goal: to serve the song first. That shared mindset is what defines our sound.
SNQLX: When a new idea hits, a riff, lyric, or melody, what is the band’s process?
HH: Most ideas begin with Steven and Chastity. From there, we bring them to the band and build them out together. Sometimes demos are shared digitally, but the real transformation happens when we are all in the same room. That is where the songs truly come alive.
ARTISTRY + THEMES
SNQLX: Your music blends dramatic rock, pop clarity, and nostalgia. What emotional threads keep resurfacing when you write?
HH: Resilience, vulnerability, empowerment, lust, ache, loss, and rage towards inequality and injustice.
SNQLX: As a female-fronted band, how do you turn that into a strength rather than a stereotype?
HH: We let the music and message speak for themselves. We do not try to break stereotypes intentionally, we simply stay honest and true to who we are. That authenticity naturally challenges expectations.
At the center of that is Chastity. She represents an empowered, resilient female voice in a genre that has not always made space for it. By fully owning who we are without compromise, what could be seen as a limitation becomes something that sets us apart.
SNQLX: The band bio mentions poetic lyrics and transcendent harmonies. What part of that comes naturally, and what pushes you creatively?
HH: The poetic lyrics come most naturally because writing for Chastity is instinctive and rooted in lived experience. What pushes us creatively is translating that emotional honesty into something expansive. Turning personal lyrics into transcendent harmonies and full arrangements is where growth and collaboration really happen.
LIVE EXPERIENCE
SNQLX: If someone has never seen Heroine Honey before, what do you hope they feel in the first 30 seconds?
HH: Depth. Power. A rush of emotion. We want the room to feel like it shifts, like something pulls you out of the ordinary. We want you to feel engulfed by the sound and fully present in the moment.
SNQLX: You have multiple vocalists. How does that shape your live energy?
HH: The harmonies reinforce the emotion of the main vocal. We use call and response to add weight, softness, or intensity depending on the moment. Those layers give the songs added dimension and power live.
SNQLX: Which song transforms the most on stage?
HH: Honestly, all of them. Every song takes on a new life live. The emotion and energy run straight through us and back into the music, so the songs transform in real time. They do not necessarily become better, just deeper. They stop being songs and become shared moments, loud, raw, and fully alive.
IDENTITY + INDIVIDUALITY
SNQLX: Chastity, how has your Filipina heritage shaped the emotional honesty in your vocals?
Chastity: My heritage and my life experiences shape everything about my voice. There is deep resilience & pain there, but also vulnerability from being a shy child who was often the only person of color in all her classes and from surviving & enduring those heavy chapters in my life due to being different. My voice carries the journey of reclaiming power and identity.
SNQLX: For the rest of the band: what does Chastity bring that only she could deliver?
Brian: Chastity uses her voice as an instrument of expression, and she displays this beautifully through her range, melodies, and technique. Her lyrics are deeply poetic, and though shrouded in metaphor, her message rings through crystal clear in every song. Adding the fact that she has main-character charisma makes her the ideal “front-man” for a band.
Dylan: Chastity is only about five feet tall, but her voice makes her sound ten feet tall. The rasp and power make her sound like an instant classic, but if you go looking, you’ll realize that she doesn’t quite sound like anyone else. Her lyrics are both cryptic and sincere and it makes for a cathartic listening experience. Her fashion sense completes the package as a unique frontwoman. I also respect her ability to make a creative choice and stick with it.
Steven: Not that I’m comparing us to them, but Queen wouldn’t be Queen without Freddie Mercury and we wouldn’t be who we are without Chastity. Her voice is a machine. She’ll scream, sing her heart out, headbang, and end up on the floor wilding out like the Lizard Queen she is, night after night, with zero signs of fatigue…. Machine, y’all. Beyond the stage, her melodies and songwriting became a foundation for me as I learned to trust my own voice as a writer. Watching how she builds songs made me more confident in my own craft. Her lyrics are exceptional and even that feels like an understatement.
Bottom line: I don’t know anyone who lives and breathes their art the way she does. The work, the sleepless nights, the resilience pushing forward through grief, loss, rejection, and everything life throws at us…she fights for this band every single day. She’s our queen. She’s irreplaceable. And we love her.
Chastity: *Crying* 🥹
REFLECTION + FUTURE
SNQLX: Looking ahead, what new risks or directions are you excited to explore?
HH: We are always exploring new ways to go bigger and get more dramatic…whether it’s stage performance or sound while staying true to who we are. We are always growing… Where all that leads is still unfolding…but we are always exploring
SNQLX: What have you learned about yourselves as a band this past year?
HH: Our bond and mutual respect matter as much as the music. That trust has changed how we work together. Also, how strong that bond shows up outside of music when times get tough in our personal lives. We can really count on each other and we do care for one another a great deal & that alone has the power to strengthen everything.
SNQLX: Five years from now, what part of this era do you hope you are still carrying?
HH: Our connection. The love and respect we have for each other as musicians, and more importantly, as chosen family.
What comes through most clearly in speaking with Heroine Honey is not just their ambition, but their bond. This is a band built on trust, mutual respect, and a shared emotional language that extends far beyond the stage. As they look toward the future, bolder performances and new creative risks, they remain grounded in the connection that brought them together in the first place. Five years from now, they hope to still be carrying that same sense of family. Judging by the way they speak about each other, it’s already woven into everything they do.
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