February 5th 2026 | Rockhouse Salzburg |
The Canadian alternative rock formation ROMES arrives as a voltage signal from the margins of genre itself, carrying with them a debut transmission titled Sonic Trash, due in November, before crossing into Europe for their first live appearances in early 2026.
Their sound moves in deliberate excess—an eclectic surge where industrial weight, dance-punk urgency, and alternative rock architecture collide and fracture, echoing distant resonances of Twenty One Pilots and The 1975, while simultaneously dissolving into the harsher electronic geometries of Nine Inch Nails and Justice. What emerges is not cohesion, but charged plurality—sound as overload, as signal, as controlled rupture.
By the time they reach stages across Europe, their momentum already bears the weight of exposure: hundreds of thousands of listeners, oversubscribed showcases, festival circuits, touring alignments, and placements that extend even into digital battlegrounds such as contemporary game soundtracks—each milestone another fragment in a rapidly expanding myth of ascent.
Parallel to this current stands the figure of ZASCHA, where industrial percussion, direct lyrical incantation, and abrasive vocal presence converge into a singular, unmistakable signature. His work circulates through the largest alternative playlists, not as background but as interruption—an insistence that refuses smoothness.
Beneath both currents runs a wider resurgence: the quiet reawakening of late-90s and early-2000s alternative aggression. Nu metal, industrial rock, and alt-rock—once markers of youthful rupture—return not as nostalgia, but as reactivated language. A new generation, unburdened by their original context, reclaims these sounds as tools for urgency, catharsis, and emotional compression in a present that often feels too polished to contain its own pressure.
ELEVEN EMPIRE
presents
ROMES (CA)
ZASCHA (AT)
5. Februar 2026
Rockhouse Salzburg
