a no-wave hardcore collision of vehemence, retaliation and unfiltered cultural rage –

Glasgow’s own DREГKΣ tore through the alt landscape with their latest single, Fucked, a release that splinters aggression into avant-garde expression with a vindicating force. In a world where atrocities unfold in real time and generations are left scarred beyond rhyme or reason, the track arrives like a lit match dropped into a powder keg. If you’ve been searching for a sound that mirrors the fury you feel whenever you think about what is tearing through Palestine, this caustically adrenalising expulsion of noise and truth gives you a place to set that anger down and let it live at full volume.

Through vehemence sharpened by the spirit of early hardcore punk pioneers, DREГKΣ amplify the true meaning of retaliation. Distortions of African rhythms bleed into the percussion while a cascade of experimental motifs yanks you outside your comfort zone. Over that vortex of no-wave noise, the vocals blaze with a kind of scorched urgency that refuses to let your mind settle. There’s nothing tidy here, nothing softened; it’s raw cultural grief translated into soundwaves, delivered with the unrelenting drive of a band who’ve built their following in Glasgow’s underground by tearing open any room they play.

Formed by a collective of immigrant musicians fronted by Greek polymath Mano Paneras, DREГKΣ channels punk rock, post-rock, shoegaze and math-rock into a feverish, politically charged chaos that feels painfully relevant to the mid-2020s. After building on the buzz of their debut Trans World War and opening for Scottish punk veterans The Zips, they’ve now delivered one of 2025’s most visceral tracks, and it deserves to be heard worldwide.

Fucked is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Bandcamp. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast