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

Next Show : Verbal Abuse (US), GxUxTxSx (CZ), SOcial Chaos (BRA) @ Venster99

17.07.2025 Hardcore For The Losers show :

VERBAL ABUSE (Hardcore, US)

American band formed in 1981 in Houston, Texas but relocated to San Fransisco in 1983 prior to their first release "Just an American Band" on Fowl Records.

G.U.T.S. (Hardcore Punk Thrash from Brno)

SOCIAL CHAOS (Classic Hardcore/Punk Crust from São Paulo, Brazil)

Vienna Hardcore Headquarters

17.07.2025

All ages

Next Show : Freya (US), Rig Time (US), Scuffle (Vienna) @ Rhiz

12.07.2025 Hardcore For The Losers show : 

Now one of my personal Higlights for this year. Definitely the people who have been a gamechanger for many hardcore [especially vegan & straight edge] kids in the last 30 years. Karl Buechner from Earth Crisis and his Freya will play a small venue gig in Vienna. There is nothing more to add, just grab your Ticket and see you on July 12th at Rhiz.

p.s. You can watch new episode of the @hardlorepod with Karl from yesterday. Great one. 

FREYA (Syracuse, NY, US ○ ex Victory Records, now Upstate Records)

"Freya have a more than 20 years career and were formed in 2001 by three members of Earth Crisis’ bassist Ian Edwards, lead guitarist Eric Edwards and vocalist Karl Buechner. When Earth Crisis’ temporarily concluded, members split into three separate bands; Freya, percussionist and guitarist Dennis Merrick and Scott Crouse, respectively, formed Slave One and all five Earth Crisis members continued on with their reactivated project band, Path of Resistence.

There is a lot of Nuclear Assault in Freya. I mean, mostly the vocals because the band is a little slower and more cadenced than Nuclear Assault." 

RIG TIME (La Crosse, Wisconsin, US ○ State of Mind Recordings) 

"Puncturing their blend of sludge and hardcore – with a tight embrace on powerviolence – the band kicks fast and dirgy tones, manifesting unbridled hatred. War is dripping with rage, vocals are strained and emphatic. The trio push many two-step parts spurring ill breakdowns with a groove. Noisy tones and ugly sentiment. " @newnoisemagazine

RIYL: Xibalba, Harms Way, Weekend Nachos, Balaclava, Lowered AD, Eyes of the Lord.

SCUFFLE (Vienna)

Definitely a logical choice to open the pit. The new force of Viennese hardcore wave with their 90's hardcore.

All ages show.

VIENNA HARDCORE 

XXX

HC4L069 Hello Bastards - Inhumanity in Humanity LP 12" (2025)

New Hardcore For The Losers release : 

HC4L069 HELLO BASTARDS - INHUMANITY IN HUMANITY LP 12" 

Politically conscience, vegan/straight edge collective from around the world who have been based in London for many years.

600 copies pressed on red vinyl, the music was recorded and the record was mixed and mastered at BearBitesHorse Studio in London with vocals recorded at TNT Music Productions in Singapore.

Order here or on Bandcamp . https://hardcoreforthelosers.bandcamp.com/

Price 15

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.