Youth Code + King Yosef

Industrial EBM duo with a hardcore punk spirit

Brutalist industrial violence with a healthy dose of hardcore angst: with this recipe, Youth Code crowned themselves the king and queen of the industrial revival. This power duo takes the frustration of the 80s hardcore punk scene as their starting point and combines it with the dark melancholy of bands like Joy Division and New Order.

This quickly made Youth Code one of the most sought-after live acts in the industrial scene, with shows at Grauzone and a tour with My Chemical Romance and HEALTH. But things went quiet around the band in recent years, until they suddenly released an EP last year. On Yours, With Malice, the duo makes a clear statement: this is still the most exciting EBM act in the US.

And that was just the beginning; this year they are releasing a full-fledged album. Perhaps a little more Nine Inch Nails than Joy Division this time, but the core remains the same: a raw, intense outburst of human emotion, cast in a thick layer of reinforced industrial concrete.

Support: King Yosef

A brutal mix of noise, hardcore, and… SoundCloud rap?!? Tayves Yosef Pettelier shows that it’s possible. This engineer, guitarist, producer, and self-proclaimed control freak from Oregon invented a completely unique sound. King Yosef started as one of Pettelier’s countless side projects but soon began to lead a life of its own. And now there is no stopping him. With his stubbornly idiosyncratic combination of alternative hip-hop and mechanical noise, he steamrolls over musical boundaries and takes the entire venue with him.