New Show : NØ MAN (US), Bull Nakano (Vienna) @ Rhiz

10.07.2025 Hardcore For The Losers show :

NØ MAN (Hardcore band from Virginia, US, Iodine Recordings)

"NØ MAN’s roots as a frame of reference. They rose from the ashes of the 2017 reunion of Majority Rule, a screamo band whose brief discography includes a split with pageninetynine, Document #12, and two LPs. Majority Rule’s tenure lasted from the late ’90s until 2004. Before they broke up, they recruited Maha Shami to perform guest vocals on “Packaged Poison” on Document #12, planting the seeds for her to become the first-round draft pick to front NØ MAN upon their formation in 2018. “Probably” is doing the heaving lifting in the statement “probably necessary” because NØ MAN  and Majority Rule are not the same despite containing nearly identical rosters. NØ MAN has already been around for nearly as long as Majority Rule lasted and they’ve already released more full-length works than Majority Rule." @treblezine

Support will be a new Viennese hardcore band with already well-known faces of our small but agile community.

All ages show

Next Show : Poison Ruin (US), Muscle Barbie (Vienna) @ Chelsea

26.06.2025 Hardcore For The Losers & Generation Noir present:

POISON RUIN (US)

Poison Ruin formed in Philadelphia in 2020. It began as a solo recording project but developed into a full band by the end of the year. Their music combines classic anarcho/crust punk with a variety of influences including oi!, american post-punk, NWOBHM, and dungeon synth. The band heavily utilizes dark medieval imagery and lyrical themes combined with anarcho iconography. A compilation of their 2020 demos was released as an LP in 2021, followed by the ‘Not Today, Not Tomorrow’ 7” in 2022.

Poison Ruin – a dark and propulsive sound that captivates and lures in while keeping an endearing layer of isolation from the listener. There’s a film or a grit over top of modest layers of gloomy melody and hard punk energy, something like The Outsiders “One to Infinity” in the house The Wipers, Modern Warfare, and A Touch of Hysteria built. This is anarchic, pogo and pit worthy, yet catchy enough to sing back to your friends when your phone battery is dead. Flashes of electronic and synth textures colour the darkened and damp corners of Poison Ruin’s sound world and help keep brief glimpses of an open horizon on the palate for all of us to strive toward.

MUSCLE BARBIE

Vienna's MUSCLE BARBIE play grumpy and, of course, raucous UK 82 snot punk. Every now and then, friendlier passages creep in, which could be categorized as wave punk, if you like. Still one of the best punk bands in this city, their 2018 release on Harbinger/Phantom Records should be in every well-stocked record collection. Only Hometown show 2025!

Next Show : Béton Armé (CAN), Puffer (CAN), Pressure Drop (Vienna) @ Rhiz

25.06.25 Hardcore For The Losers show : 

BÉTON ARMÉ (Montreal band inspired by french punk/oi! bands from the 80's. Primator Crew)
"Don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that this is one of my favourite bands still going, up there with MESS, FUERZA BRUTA and CASTILLO; they are the real deal. It seems a little reductive making the comparison merely owing to their shared Francophile nature, but this really does feel like a spiritual cousin to a RIXE EP—earworm choruses, buzzsaw guitars, and gang vox designed to be yelled while covered in lager" @maxrnr
FIRST TIME IN VIENNA.

PUFFER
(Montreal band, Drunken Sailor Records, Roachleg Records)
"One of the best straight forward rock and roll punk heard in a minute. Puffer manages to create fist pumping punk rock that has enough grit and grime to get even the most crusty Brooklyn hipster tapping their foot." by : Botched Invocation
SECOND TIME IN VIENNA.

PRESSURE DROP
(Vienna band, with familiar faces on W-Punk scene they play dirty hardcore)
THIRD TIME IN VIENNA.

TAKE A STAND DIY HARDCORE FESTIVAL NUM. 2 w/ VIENNA HARDCORE

 14.&15.06.2015 @ Venster99 , 1 BM and Tüwi

Next Show : Shove (AUS), Reality Shift (Linz) @ Venster99

08.06.25 Hardcore For The Losers & Lovehouse Show :

SHOVE (Melbourne, Australia)
an Australian hardcore punk band from Melbourne, has been described as delivering "unhinged hardcore punk".

REALITY SHIFT (Linz, Austria) 
Super new hardcore band from Linz for the first time in Vienna. 

Venster 99 

All Ages show 

Next Show : Cemented Minds (FRA), Swelle (Vienna), Ghost Ambulance (Vienna) @ Venster99

10.05.25 Hardcore For The Losers show : CEMENTED MINDS (ex Amanda Woodward, Caen - Linz) One more band from my favorite European scene. This one also features members of one of my all time bands. There's nothing more to say, if you liked the Schedule 1 concert a few months ago, you'll love this one too. Their COLOSTRUM EP 10" was released in 2019 on Hardcore For The Losers and they were supposed to play a year later but the pandemic stopped us, now we are finally ready. "Not necessarily in the classic Joy Division-sense but rather in the cocktail meshed up by adding equal measures of early Midwestern Emo like Mineral and some bass-heavy European bands like Buzzcocks or the melancholic Siouxsie and the Banshees." @veil_of_sound + GHOST AMBULANCE (Vienna) "Vienna’s latest addition to the ever growing slowcore/emo scene – incredible songs where slow and delicate meets emotional and heavy, in the music as well as in the lyrics. SWELLE (Vienna) Swelle makes noisy alt rock in the spirit of Midwest emo. Twinkly and fuzzy in a garagey sort of way, the songs are as sweet as they are angry. Poster : @blanche.main May10 Venster99 All ages show

Next Show : Blind Girls (AUS), Øjne (IT), AFTMH (Vienna), Flirren (Vienna) @ Rhiz

13.04.25 Hardcore For The Losers with Emoviolence Matinee after long long time w/

Anyone who is even slightly into the Eviolence scene knows about these two touring bands. Øjne visiting Vienna for the third time if I counted correctly, and Blind Girls are coming to the EU for the first time after their US tour.

Suddenly, then, to make sure that's not all, there are 2 new eviolence bands in Vienna at once, so what's going on?

BLIND GIRLS (Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia formed in 2013) 

ØJNE (Milan, Italy formed in 2011)

AFTMH (Absent From The Morning Headcount fresh Eviolence from Vienna)

FLIRREN (Eviolence from Vienna, first show!)

16:00 DOORS 

16:20 FLIRREN 

17:00 HEADCOUNT 

17:40 OJNE 

18:30 BLIND GIRLS

Rhiz, Vienna

April 13th

All ages show