Next Show : Firestarter (US), Slow Burn (DE), Stepped Out (CRO), Influence (Vienna) @ Venster99

13.10.2025 Hardcore For The Losers show of the Month :

FIRESTARTER (Straight Edge Hardcore Los Angeles, US - @hardlorepod Records)

SLOW BURN (Metallic Hardcore from Germany)

STEPPED OUT (Old School Hardcore from Dalmatia)

INFLUENCE (Hardcore from Vienna members of Time X Trial, Golden X and 100 more, FIRST SHOW)

Independent Hardcore music at Vienna Hardcore Headquarters 

Venster99 

All ages

Next Show : Fléau (FRA), Blau (CZ), Parole 80 (Vienna) @ Venster99

29.09.2025 Hardcore For The Losers Summer break is over with :

FLÉAU (Lyon, France) 

Fléau play an incredibly vicious variety of Oi that borrows as much (or more) from metal and hardcore as it does from groups like Angelic Upstarts. Further, instead of the miner’s strikes in England, Fléau has set their music in the feudal era of France. That’s right, it’s not a class war that Fléau is waging, it’s a Hundred Years war. The kind of war there you burn down the next village over because the nobleman who owns the land you live and work on convinced you that they’re heretics. @newnoisemagazine 

FFO : Rixe, Blitz, Noi!se.

BLAU (Prague, Czech Republic)

New Punk band from extremely familiar faces of Prague diy hardcore/punk underground. 

PAROLE 80 (Vienna, Austria)

Something between Fak Of Bolan, Jerrys Kids and Red London.

HCHQ99

All Ages

Next Show : Body Farm (US), Slutbomb (US), Harsh Response (Vienna) @ Venster99

24.09.2025 Hardcore For The Losers show :

BODY FARM (Trans Day Of Vengeance Hardcore/punk from USA)

"Admittedly, the "power violence" tag, while certainly applicable when the band is going “all bash, no flash," is a bit reductive when considering the staggering variety they’ve managed to cram into. As described by the self-appointed label descriptor “Detestation meets Dropdead”, there are elements of traditional PV to be found on display here, mostly when they’re exploring the start/stop dizziness of fastcore and the chugging bits of sludge that classically act as a change of pace." @noechodotnet

SLUTBOMB (Second time in Vienna, Queer Hardcore Punk from USA)

"SLUTBOMB from Cincinnati claims to be “the fastest queercore band in Ohio,” and they’re not lying. Blasts of powerviolence link up with sludgy riffs to form a slow/fast wall-of-death sound that is as much old school thrashy hardcore as it is metal-injected punk. Debra’s vocal barrage is raw and articulate while firing off lyrics critical of all the things creating our contemporary global hellscape." @maxrnr

HARSH RESPONSE (New Band from Vienna,

no blastbeats here, more like Rudimentary Peni, Exit Order and so on. Anarcho hardcore/punk)

 

Vienna Hardcore Headquarters 

All ages show

HC4L070 Bajo Control - Libres de Drogas EP 7" (2025)

New Hardcore For The Losers release :

HC4L070 BAJO CONTROL - Libres de Drogas EP 7"

The pre-order for the long awaited @bajoxcontrol debut 7" LIBRES DE DROGAS starts today! BAJO CONTROL from Madrid might be known from their European Tour in early 2025 together with @xdistantex 

(HC4L054 XDistanteX - Cada Acción Cuenta EP 7") from Buenos Aires. Angry, political, straight-forward hardcore that takes influences from the 80's NY/Boston HC until todays positive youthcrew bands. Just send us a DM if you want one!

Thanks to all other labels involved: @passion.means.struggle , @lesklafitrecords  , @frontaldistribucion and @lisboaxstraightxedge !

Next Show : Litovsk (FR), Norms (HU) @ Venster99

04.08.2025 Hardcore For The Losers only August show :

LITOVSK (Brest, France)

Playing crisp and clean melodic post-punk with shimmering guitars and nasally vocals, LITOVSK recalls bands like MISSION OF BURMA and the REPLACEMENTS, and would fit quite nicely on a bill with contemporaries MIDDLEMAN. @maxrnr

https://youtu.be/vg8gJs13ijw?si=w6ikd-RK8n2LpiQd

NORMS (Budapest, Hungary)

Underpinning the screeching feedback and cacophonous percussive blasts, you’ll find some of the most devastating and innovative riffs to be etched into wax. I can’t get enough. Absolute hardcore lunacy for deranged punk freaks. @maxrnr

https://youtu.be/6BjZ1dSh8HU?si=7dJu0yv4Cjhx-00K

Next Show : Scorn (Berlin, Vienna), Bondage Toes (Graz) @ Venster99

30.07.2025 Hardcore For The Losers barmyarmy : 

● SCORN (EU)

a new crossover band with some familiar faces from Vienna, Berlin etc. 

● BONDAGE TOES (GRAZ)

new hardcore punk band from Graz.

Venster99 

All Ages Show

Next Show : Tomar Control (PE), Nothing Works (DE) @ Venster99

18.07.2025 Hardcore For The Losers & One By One DIY show : 

TOMAR CONTROL (Lima, Peru - Refuse Records)

This Hardcore band have worked diligently for the last near-decade, making a name for themselves not only in the Latin American hardcore scene, but around the globe.

Playing a traditional style of hardcore akin to bands like 7 Seconds, Youth of Today, and BOLD, the all-female lineup stands out in a genre dominated by white men. 

NOTHING WORKS (Berlin, Germany - My People Records)

Angry and furios hardcore band with massive political influence.

Venster99 

All ages