Rites of Spring (a REAL EMO) Festival with PAGENINETYNINE and many more!

In the organizer's words:

12.04.25 | Kafe Kult, Munich | presented by CoreChaos

with...

Pageninetynine (USA / Persistent Vision / Screamo )

Blind Girls (AUS / Persistent Vision / Screamo )

Øjne (Italy / Screamo)

Oakhands (Munich / This Charming Man Records / Sturm & Drang)

We're offering flexible ticket pricing at the door, so you can choose based on your current financial situation:

• 11€ (Social Price) - only available at the door
• 17€ (Mid Price) - only available at the door
• 25€ (Supporter Price) - available both in presale and at the door

Why Three Prices?
Our goal is to make sure everyone can enjoy live music and culture. We want you to choose a price that matches your current means. While cultural funding helps, the support of those who can pay a bit more makes these events possible for everyone.

Choose a price that works for you. Whatever you pay - make an informed decision.

:) And if even the Social Price is too much right now, please reach out-we'll work with you to find a way to make it happen! :)

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A one-day music festival inspired by Emo-music's most famous meme:

"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat
HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music.
Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral.
EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

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*** PAGENINETYNINE [screamo / usa / persistent vision]
Started in 1997, Pageninetynine is a band from Sterling, Virginia who redefined what "punk rock" could mean and be, touring relentlessly and releasing a plethora of albums, splits, singles and more... all from a venerable squad of miscreants on the outskirts of the nation's capital. With a plethora of releases only rivaled by their staggering eight (sometimes nine) member status, Pg.99 managed to amalgamate almost every heavy-music genre into a tornado of punk rock fury. Not punk in a mohawk-mania sense, but with the unbridled raw spirit of youthful rebellion and passion. Following a series of reunions in 2011, 2017 and 2019, Pageninetynine has remained active, playing select shows and festivals in 2023, 2024 & 2025.

***BLIND GIRLS
Blind Girls have spent a whole decade making blistering and technical screamo. They have a distinct way of making entire works sound like a single composition, both live and on record, championing the punk tradition of playing with as few breaks as possible, if any. Ben Smith's extraordinarily intense drumming is akin to bands like Ampere and Converge, the frantic riffage of guitarists Julian Currie, Luke Sweeney, and bassist Mark Grant is simultaneously representative of current hardcore and reminiscent of metalcore of days past, and the throat-lacerating screams of vocalist Sharni Brouwer are in a class shared perhaps only with Jerome's Dream. The emotion in the heavily incorporated melodies, not to mention the face-ripping breakdowns and thrashing blast beats, of An Exit Exists are the complement to its conceptual theme addressing abuse. Brouwer explains, "An Exit Exists was written during and retrospectively on two separate instances dealing with abuse from those I loved. Each song is a reflection on the emotions and process I went through from realization, feeling trapped, guilt, defeat, acceptance and eventually finding a safe way out."

***ØJNE
Øjne are an Italian screamo band founded in Milan in 2011. Their first release, an EP titled "Undici/Dodici" quickly allowed them to extensively tour Europe, including appearances at festivals such as Fluff Fest and Miss The Stars. Soon after, the band released two splits with Rainmaker and Улыбайся Ветру, and finally in 2017 their first LP "Prima Che Tutto Bruci" came out, allowing them to quickly gain a cult status within the worldwide screamo scene. After a few line-up changes, an already legendary 10-year anniversary show in Milan and a North American tour with Frail Body, Øjne released in June 2023 their latest EP, "Sogno #3".

***OAKHANDS
The title of the new Oakhands EP > A Circle with Many Centres < is a reference to a short story by Haruki Murakami. It is also the realization by Oakhands that life and feelings cannot be so logically differentiated and dissected as was assumed and practised on the previous album >
The Shadow Of Your Guard Receding < but that feelings simply have to be experienced, and that all the personal conflicts are more strongly and universally connected than one would like. > A Circle with Many Centres < can thus be thought of as the continuation, answer or refutation of the debut album. The latter dealt with one’s own feelings analytically and lyrically with almost manic precision and was artistically (not scientifically) inspired by Plutchick’s Wheel of Emotions. > A Circle with Many Centres < can also be read as a late coming-of-age record. A post-adolescent record about the "true" coming of age around 30, late individual Sturm & Drang phases. About the realization of where the root of all personal conflicts lies: depression.