Alternative Archives - Athens Music Week https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/music-genres/alternative-el/ Connecting Cultures. Inspiring Innovation Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:03:26 +0000 el hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/logo-size-100x100.png Alternative Archives - Athens Music Week https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/music-genres/alternative-el/ 32 32 Viah (CZ) https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/artists/viah/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:56:26 +0000 https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/?post_type=artist&p=29481 𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒉 is a Prague-based electropop band formed by Vi, Rosa, and Tomáš, together with visual artist Nina. Their sound blends delicate dual vocals, club-ready beats, and subtle sonic experimentation. On stage, they shift between intimate moments and driving tempos — moody, playful, detail-oriented, and always a little surprising. Their album Saudade was shaped along Portugal’s […]

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]]> 𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒉 is a Prague-based electropop band formed by Vi, Rosa, and Tomáš, together with visual artist Nina. Their sound blends delicate dual vocals, club-ready beats, and subtle sonic experimentation. On stage, they shift between intimate moments and driving tempos — moody, playful, detail-oriented, and always a little surprising.

Their album Saudade was shaped along Portugal’s Fishermen’s Trail and marks a new creative chapter: bolder, more physical, yet deeply emotional. Since forming in 2017, 𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒉 have played over 120 shows across Europe, appeared at festivals such as Sziget, Colours of Ostrava, and Waves Vienna, and won Czeching 2019.

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]]> Maluridé (HU) https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/artists/maluride/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:28:54 +0000 https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/?post_type=artist&p=29431 Maluridé is an alternative electronic dream-pop formation from Hungary. Their style comes from the basis of pop and electronic music. However, with their lyrics and lyrics-centered vocal score, they use classical harmony tools. Their songs create an atmosphere that balances emotional sensitivity with subtle enthusiasm, offering listeners new perspectives on everyday experiences and inner states. […]

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]]> Maluridé is an alternative electronic dream-pop formation from Hungary. Their style comes from the basis of pop and electronic music. However, with their lyrics and lyrics-centered vocal score, they use classical harmony tools.

Their songs create an atmosphere that balances emotional sensitivity with subtle enthusiasm, offering listeners new perspectives on everyday experiences and inner states.

The band maintains a strong live presence with their album release concerts and performing at Hungary’s main music festivals.

In 2025, Maluridé collaborated with an Athens-based contemporary classical composer on the track Shape of Broken Light. The band’s singer and songwriter Júlia Viszkeleti created an EP with Nikos called Past is Prologue.

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]]> Desert Monks (GR) https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/artists/desert-monks-gr/ Thu, 02 May 2024 15:35:45 +0000 https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/?post_type=artist&p=22520 Desert Monks formed in 2016 in Athens, Greece in an attempt to merge a series of musical and aesthetical aspects under a familiar, yet unique, sound. Their music focuses on Alternative Rock and its subgenres, with the discrete presence of elements deriving from each member’s diverse sonic and artistic background. Their work is governed by […]

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]]> Desert Monks formed in 2016 in Athens, Greece in an attempt to merge a series of musical and aesthetical aspects under a familiar, yet unique, sound. Their music focuses on Alternative Rock and its subgenres, with the discrete presence of elements deriving from each member’s diverse sonic and artistic background. Their work is governed by a prominently overdriven feel with straightforward grooves, occasionally polite and unconventional harmonies, repetitive energy-building motifs and heavier bursts. Their performances are based on intense mood changes, ample dynamics and audience engagement through their lyrics, music, semantics and lighting/ show direction. Since their formation, they have performed extensively both as solo acts, as well as part of highly acknowledged lineups in venues, festivals and collective actions in Greece. Desert monks remain loyal to the heavier side of the British school combined with the musicality and the energy conveyed by the 90s scene, both of which set the foundation to apply any contemporary elements composing their inviting soundscapes.

Their second album, ‘Sympan’ (2022, Just Gazing Records), received significant critical acclaim.

They have also performed abroad (in Bulgaria and Romania) and have been part of esteemed lineups alongside artists such as Aggelakas, Pavlidis, ViC, Planet of Zeus, and Naxatras.They are set to embark on their second European tour in September 2024.


Links:

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/desertmonks

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desertmonks/

Bandcamp: https://desertmonks.bandcamp.com/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DesertMonks

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]]> Komisiia (UA) https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/artists/komisiia-ua/ Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:34:39 +0000 https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/?post_type=artist&p=22027 Komisiia is a four-piece band from Kyiv, Ukraine. We have released two full-length albums, three EPs, and six singles. Exploring different genres, from punk rock to bossa nova and house-inspired indie-pop, Komisiia is an ever-changing picture labeled by several musical media as a “chameleon band.” They have performed 100+ gigs in different venues across Europe.  […]

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]]> Komisiia is a four-piece band from Kyiv, Ukraine. We have released two full-length albums, three EPs, and six singles. Exploring different genres, from punk rock to bossa nova and house-inspired indie-pop, Komisiia is an ever-changing picture labeled by several musical media as a “chameleon band.” They have performed 100+ gigs in different venues across Europe. 

Since the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the band members have been thrust into a new reality. This seismic shift has not only reshaped their day-to-day lives but also the landscape of the Ukrainian music industry. The band’s most significant new challenge right now is the necessity of reorientation to European markets and building a network of connections there. 

In 2023, Komisiia started working with Ukrainian indie label Kontrabass Promo, opening a new chapter in the band’s story. Last year, the band also organized numerous charity events with the Musicians Defend Ukraine Foundation.


Links:

Press-kit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LlnAykwidAKUOF7zkiVkGvb2NvD6N5s6/view?usp=drive_link

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@komisiia

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]]> OCEANDVST (GR) https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/el/artists/oceandvst/ Wed, 19 May 2021 19:36:37 +0000 https://www.athensmusicweek.gr/artists/oceandvst/ Το ταξίδι των OCEANDVST ξεκινάει στα μέσα του 2017 στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Η είσοδός τους στη σκηνή ήταν γρήγορη και τράβηξε τα βλέμματα με την κυκλοφορία του πρώτου τους ΕΡ με τίτλο “Escape Rovte”, ξεκινώντας να δημιουργούν ένα σημαντικό κοινό από τα πρώτα τους κιόλας  βήματα. Τη κυκλοφορία του “Escape Rovte” συνόδευσαν τρία μουσικά videos τα […]

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]]> Το ταξίδι των OCEANDVST ξεκινάει στα μέσα του 2017 στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Η είσοδός τους στη σκηνή ήταν γρήγορη και τράβηξε τα βλέμματα με την κυκλοφορία του πρώτου τους ΕΡ με τίτλο “Escape Rovte”, ξεκινώντας να δημιουργούν ένα σημαντικό κοινό από τα πρώτα τους κιόλας  βήματα. Τη κυκλοφορία του “Escape Rovte” συνόδευσαν τρία μουσικά videos τα οποία έγιναν απροσδόκητα δημοφιλή σε μικρό χρονικό διάστημα, ενώ το 2019 ακολούθησε το επόμενο single “Isn’t Love Supposed to Be a Good Thing?” το οποίο σηματοδότησε και το τέλος ενός μεγάλου κεφαλαίου. Στα τέλη του 2019 η μπάντα προχώρησε στην επόμενη της φάση με νέο line-up και πιο αποφασισμένη από ποτέ να κάνει τους στόχους και τα όνειρά της πραγματικότητα! Η νέα αυτή φάση ξεκίνησε με την κυκλοφορία του single “Nightmare (Halsey cover)”, το οποίο και κατάφερε να βρεθεί για τέσσερις συνεχόμενες βδομάδες στο Νο1 το 1055 Rock. Μερικές από τις πιο αξιοσημείωτες στιγμές του συγκροτήματος ήταν η συμμετοχή του σε διοργανώσεις όπως Shoolwave Festival, Street Mode Festival, Coca-Cola Stories with Solmeister και πολλά ακόμα!

Ο ήχος τους ποικίλει από rock, punk και alternative ήχους με συγκροτήματα όπως Tonight Alive, My chemical Romance, Twenty One Pilots και Paramore να είναι οι βασικότερες τους επιρροές. Τα στοιχεία που τους χαρακτηρίζουν  περισσότερο είναι η χαρισματική τους τραγουδίστρια με την ζεστή και έντονη φωνή της και η συναισθηματικότητα των τραγουδιών τους. Οι περισσότεροι χαρακτηρίζουν τις συναυλίες τους ως μια αυθόρμητη και ενεργητική εμπειρία γεμάτη ένταση.

Μέλη

Chrysa – Vocals

Jimmy Balas – Guitars

Evan Noct – Drums

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