If you spent a little time at area demolition derbies this summer—which you should schedule for next year if you didn’t—you might have seen a careening car sporting a logo and web address promoting the Facebook page of Easthampton’s Heal The Destroyer.

The URL might have been hard to discern from a distance, especially after repeated collisions crumpled the metal on which it was painted. But the logo would be hard to miss: a giant skull sitting above two crossed automatic rifles.

Like the demolition derby, Heal The Destroyer is aggressive, loud and rowdy. The quintet—vocalist Dylan Fedora, bassist and vocalist Jon Peterson, drummer Eric Richard and guitarists Justin Brooks and Aaron Gallaspie—produces its own blend of punk, hardcore, and deathcore, an extreme version of death metal.

Fedora and Peterson began rocking together a few years back, playing music with friends and killing time while hanging out. Brooks, Gallaspie and Richard joined later and the current incarnation was complete. It wasn’t until all five members climbed aboard that the band says it got serious and began pursuing its goal of ultimately carving out a career in the music biz.

Heal The Destroyer says it draws inspiration from all sorts of punkers like Blink 182, Enter Shikari, Everybody Dies In Utah and New Found Glory.

The fivesome is doing its best to gather grassroots support. Over the summer it hastily scheduled a show at its Easthampton practice space. Sure enough, with only a day’s notice, dozens of fans and friends turned out to celebrate. A glance through the band’s Facebook page reveals a bevy of supporters in Heal The Destroyer T-shirts featuring the group’s name on the front and that distinctive logo on the back.

The band is currently busy putting together its debut release, an EP titled When Baby Steps Become Curb Stomps.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/healthedestroyer.