ALARM! (Stockholm, Sweden, w/ VICTIMS/OUTLAST members) + HARD PASS (Malmö, Sweden) + KRIME

ALARM! are a hardcore punk band from Stockholm, Sweden. After twenty-plus years of playing together in Victims, Andy, Jon and Gareth reunited in early 2023 with the ambition of making some new noise. Jon switched from guitar to bass and the trio wrote a bunch of songs. About a year later they were joined by Jon’s childhood friend, Henrik. This would be the first time the two had played together since their legendary hardcore band Outlast folded in the late 90’s.

Henrik’s vocals and Jon’s bass playing are the key ingredients in taking ALARM!’s sound away from these Swede’s well-known crust punk roots. The bass is both manic and melodic at the same time, pummelling the riffs behind the wall of guitar and drums. Henrik’s piercing vocals, raw yet steeped in emotion, scream of personal anguish and pissed off, political rage. ALARM! have endeavoured to evoke the classic Swedish sound whilst harking back to an ever-so-slight hint of melodic hardcore pre Y2K.

<a href="https://alarmhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/failure-by-design">Failure By Design by ALARM!</a>

ALARM!: Unrelenting Swedish Hardcore intensity !

Born from the ashes of Victims and Outlast, Sweden’s ALARM! returns with Failure By Design. This isn’t just nostalgia—it’s pure, visceral, and socially conscious hardcore that hits like a freight train.

If you like your music raw and fuelled by political rage, this band is mandatory listening.

📖 Read the interview: https://roughtimes.net/interviews/alarm-this-is-not-a-test-sweden-hardcore-interview-with-gareth-henrik

HARD PASS (MÄLMO SWEDEN)

Hard Pass – Distorted Eyes

New-ish band, veteran players that have paid their dues in such diverse bands as PYRAMIDO, SATANIC SURFERS, BURST, and ANCHOR. Since their debut Hardcore 2024, the Malmö band has been in constant forward movement. Distorted Eyes is their first full statement, or as the official line puts it, “ten tracks of unrelenting hardcore punk.” No exaggeration there. The opener “Lies” sets the picture of systems failing, truth being commodified, and everyone’s complicity in it. Lyrics read like headlines chewed up and spit back out through a punk filter. The message is consistent: distrust power, reject passivity, and call out the machinery. Sonically, it’s classic hardcore chassis, but not stuck in time. What makes Distorted Eyes stick is conviction. This is hardcore as a delivery system for change.

Reviewer João Seixas – Maximum Rock n’roll, IssueMRR #517 • June 2026

<a href="https://hardpassmalmo.bandcamp.com/album/distorted-eyes">Distorted Eyes by Hard Pass</a>

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KRIME
Krime, formed early 2024, is a hardcore punk band from the Netherlands, featuring ex members of Citizens Patrol and Brat Pack. Our sound might appeal to fans of Poison Idea, Long Knife, RKL, Government Warning, Annihilation Time, Syndrome 81, etc.

<a href="https://krimepunk.bandcamp.com/album/s-t">S/T by Krime</a>

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