“Mediocracy broke up last year...they had been having
some troubles for some time and around July decided it was over. Radu, the ex
guitar player from Mediocracy, and 2 other friends started jamming and soon
formed Killer Victim.
Killer Victim had their first
show in February 2014. So far they have had had 7 gigs where they played some
shows with local bands in Bucharest, opened for Comeback Kid, I Am A Curse and
a big festival called Rockstadt Extreme Fest.
The next gig is next week in Bucharest opening for
Negative Approach. In the following weeks they will start recording their first
songs, which will be on split EP with Drop out Of Life. After that probably
more gigs and hopefully a tour some time next year.
For the rest of the scene…you still can't say there is
a real hardcore scene in Romania because people still seem to have different
views about what that is supposed to be. But I guess some part of it is there because
bands are really solid with each other and there are mostly the same people in
all of the bands.
The problem is that most bands play variations of
metalcore/post-hardcore, which means there isn't much variation...but some of
them are still pretty good…at least for our scene.
Some bands from Bucharest worth checking out are:
There are also
some young bands that have just started playing.
Take No More (hardcore),
who are probably the youngest band we have in our scene, since its members are
all under 18 years old.
This is the event for the concert with Negative
Approach, Something for the Core. As you can see it's a 3 day fest where most of our local bands will
perform.
Almost all of them are from Bucharest except for…
We have a few clubs where we can book shows almost any
time…the only problem is with the period of the year because it all revolves
around holidays and shit...so summer is pretty much dead here, except for big
shows of festivals...I guess it’s the same as everywhere.
Distroy Booking
and has booked bands like Straight Opposition, Born For Slaughter, Left In
Ruins, Pavilionul 32, Despite Everything, Insane etc. DB is hoping to get more
crust/metallic hc/grind bands because most of the bands are metal core.
VZR Graphics does
artwork from time to time for bands like Corrupt Moral Altar (UK), Macula
(Brazil), H8 (Romania), Born For Slaughter (Macedonia), Pavilionul 32 (Romania)
plus gig posters and other related stuff. Take care!”
