Romania - Bucharest 3

“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:

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (post-hardcore)

Breathelast (metalcore)

Cap de Craniu (death metal/deathcore)

Void Forger (doom/crust)

Crossbone (crossover/thrash metal)

Valerinne (post punk/post rock)

Roadkill Soda (stoner metal)

There are also some young bands that have just started playing.

Ropeburn (stoner metal/hardcore)

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…

Deliver the God (Brasov/deathcore)

The Dignity Complex (Brasov/progressive metal)

Coins As Portraits (Brasov/grindcore/experimental).

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!”

UK - South Wales 4

This show at Fuel showed four local bands to update things a bit...

Forsaken

Ancestors

Judgement

Interrogation

Fearless Management seem to be doing a great job across a range of styles too...

Also it's worth mentioning that Cardiff is probably the only city to have three venues that put on hardcore shows in one small street! There's also a 'fashion quarter'...

Clwb Ifor Bach

Full Moon

Festival - This is Leuven not Woodstock!

"ChaosBar, Freedom in Fire, Sux To Be You and Neanderthal Distro have joined forces in order to bring up this d.i.y. festival. Benefit for Anarchist Center in Paraguay. It is a 1day festival with live bands // workshops // exhibitions etc. and it is gonna take place in ChaosBar/DenACCO which is squatted autonomous place in Leuven/Hellgium, free from any commercial or authoritarian bullshit. We are determined to make it a good festival and have a good time, and in order to that; NO COPS / NO SABAM / NO DRUG DEALERS / NO FASCIST-SEXIST-HOMOPHOBIC CRAP is welcome, and will NOT BE TOLERATED. for now the line up is confirmed and closed; MÖRKHIMMEL // death/black/stench // Czech Republic HAZARDER // sludge/stoner/doom/crust // Serbia/Croatia LIVIA SURA // blackened sludge/crust // Romania THE WANTED // black metal/punk // France ZAPRTI ODDELEK // death/power-violence/grind core // Slovenia VOID FORGER // sludge/black metal/crust // Romania HUMAN HOST BODY // death/black/d-beat/crust // Slovenia ZEIT GEIST // grind core // Italy HELLBORN MESSIAH // metal/hardore/crust // Germany SHAID // grind/crust/core // France ACHILLES // crust/death metal/post metal // Sweden other activities and detailes will be announced soon. more and up to date info at; http://neanderthaldiy.tumblr.com/ feel free to spread the word! cheers! and see you there!"

Blog - Dirty Guys Rock

Dirty Guys Rock

Germany - North East

Overpower - from Leipzig. Melodic Punk/Crust with some influences from japanese Hardcore

Barren - from Jena. 90s Mosh-Hardcore with some former Zann-members and the Failed Suicide Plan-guitarplayer

Cyness - from Potsdam, Grindcore

Vyst - from Leipzig, Dark Crust Hardcore with the former Perth Express-drummer

Throwers - also from Leipzig, Dark Crust Hardcore

Mexico - Merida 3

Merida 2

"Things are getting better! This year was amazing for the scene - new people started to make shows and more venues were opened. After being dry of good mosh pits and sing alongs, the scene, our hardcore scene, started to show signals of new good times. Bands started to make their own shows, with the objective of giving new and fresh life to the local scene and still being the door for new bands. Good shows were made and new kids got interested in hardcore punk. The year is still active, and right now we have had a visit from Zeta (Venezuela) and Apocalipsis (Mexico City). Things are just getting better and more bands appear in the process. Check out Dia Gris (Neo Crust)

Pool (Old School HC)

La Haine(Metal Core)

Stench Of Death(Doom/D-beat)

Per Se (Post HC)

And the recent local bands are still active and recording... Factotum have just recorded 2 new songs and had 3 more released in the last 2 weeks of December. Martires

Iconoclasta

Fuerza Interior have a new downloadable EP with a furious sound.

And finally the young revelation Sin Respuesta have just recorded new material which will be included in their new CD. Saludos!"

Romania - Brasov

"Unfortunately we are only a small collective who try to take as much as we can in our own hands. We have a few bands in Brasov, whom you should check out... Coins as Portraits

I Stared Into the Forest

The Dignity Complex

Deliver the God who approach a more metalcore-ish side.

We have started in 2011 our own independent label called Fading Halo Records, where we recently released the new I Stared Into the Forest EP called - Unframed Pictures of Our Epilogue, available for free here. There aren't any local zines but I strongly recommend Leave Me Alone zine

and Gluga Neagra who are also organizing events and much much more.

As time passes, fewer and fewer people attend hardcore diy shows here, maybe because the number and frequency of metal events increased (and dubstep haha). We have been organizing concerts since 2009 (not very often) under the name of Play Or Die Booking. Throughout time we changed lot's of venues, either because they got bankrupt or they fucked us over, cancelling shows the day it should happen. Currently we are doing shows at some kind of rubber laboratory of a company, through a friend of ours. It's pretty wild, as you get raw diy hardcore punk vibe. Thanks! Take care."