Karate – München, Strom

In the organizer's words:

Boston's Karate unravels the tightly focused energy of post-hardcore, playing angular riffs with clean, spacious guitar tones and adding a technical precision often deliberately avoided by their peers. The band's patient tempos and thoughtful atmospheres made their first two albums( 1995'sKarate and 1997's In Place of Real Insight ) border on slowcore at times. Later, however, they began to incorporate a strong jazz influence into their already heady mix of punk-like styles, adding improvisation and post-rock accents to albums like 2000's U_nsolved_. Karate disbanded in 2005, but reunited in 2022 when Numero Group began reissuing their long out-of-print catalog. In addition to reissuing the individual albums, the campaign also included box sets such as Time Expired (2022), which contained the group's last three studio albums and a handful of other miscellaneous or previously unreleased tracks, and Complete Studio Recordings (2023), which contained almost everything the band had ever recorded.