The CSO Bocciodromo in Vicenza came down a few weeks ago, demolished to clear ground for high-speed rail construction. For Vicenza based All Coasted, who started playing in the city’s punk circuit at 13 and 14 years old, that demolition sits close to the centre of why their fifth record “Time For Disruption” arrives the way it does.
“In many ways that feels symbolic of what happened to the local underground scene over the years: spaces disappeared, connections got weaker and everything became more fragmented,” the band say.
“Back then, places like e20 Underground, K2, Jack The Ripper Pub or the CSO Bocciodromo weren’t just venues to us, they were cultural and human reference points.”
“Time For Disruption” is out June 12 on Punk Explosion Collective, the DIY label and promoter project All Coasted started three years ago with Albe of The Slurmies, after more than a decade spent playing across Northern Italy with their respective bands.
The collective grew out of frustration with what was left of the Vicenza scene. “What we missed the most wasn’t only the physical places, but the sense of community itself.
Years ago the audience felt much more involved: people went out to discover bands, meet new friends and actually live the scene. Today everything often feels reduced to a few Instagram likes while many venues stay half empty.”
Punk Explosion was the answer, a way to build something where bands, promoters and DIY operators could pool effort instead of competing for the same crowds. Derozer, the Vicenza punk band the founders looked up to as teenagers, still backs the collective. “One of the goals of the collective has always been collaborating with other promoters instead of stepping on each other’s toes, trying to build nights that had a human meaning before an economic one.
There has never really been money in the DIY punk scene, but the real reward for us has always been hearing people come up after a show saying: ‘Thanks for doing this, we really needed it.'”
All Coasted have been active since 2015, three EPs and one LP into a catalogue rooted in early-2000s Californian punk rock.
The FFO list on the press sheet still reads NOFX, Bad Religion, Pennywise. In ten years the band have played more than a hundred shows, hit Bay Fest, Punk Rock Raduno and Ferrock Festival, toured Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croatia, and shared stages with NOFX, Sick Of It All, Frank Turner, Teenage Bottlerocket, Get Dead, Masked Intruder, Chixdiggit!, The Rumjacks and Talco.
The lineage is intact. The voice has shifted. “Our early albums came from being twenty-year-olds wanting to become our own version of NOFX or the Californian skate punk bands we grew up listening to. That sound is still deeply part of our DNA, but today we’re no longer kids trying to imitate our heroes. We are grown men now: husbands, fathers, people who went through difficult experiences and who look at the present and the future with far less innocence than we had ten years ago.”
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That shift carries through the record. “Time For Disruption was born at a time when many certainties were collapsing right in front of our eyes,” the press notes read. “It tells the story of a dark period, both personal and collective, where loneliness, betrayal and the loss of balance coexisted with a growing, clear-headed anger toward a corrupted system and a future that increasingly feels out of reach.”
The songs move between introspection and conflict. “This is not a record written to offer solutions, but to take a stand. Because when everything collapses, the only possible choice is to break the silence.”
The wider climate is inseparable from the writing. “We live in a time where it feels harder and harder to genuinely believe in a better future, between geopolitical tensions, instability and a widespread sense of disappointment. ‘Time For Disruption’ was born inside that reality and tries to speak about it directly and honestly. For us, punk rock was never just a music genre or a nostalgic tribute to the 2000s sound we grew up with, but a way to react to the world around us and openly say what we think.” Past thirty, the outsider posture has not loosened. “Even now that we’re past our thirties, we still feel like rebels at heart and we’re not willing to stay silent.”
Recording was handled by Andrea Spazza Rigoni. Maurizio Icio Baggio did mix and master. Margherita Forigo painted the album cover. Davide Dellai shot the band photos. Street artist Cibo contributed art.
In 2026 All Coasted will play the main stage of Rebellion Festival in Blackpool, a step the band trace directly back to the network the collective has built.
“Over the last years this energy also started bringing attention from outside Italy through international collaborations, new contacts and festivals like Rebellion Festival in the UK. But at the center of everything there is still the same idea that gave birth to Punk Explosion in the first place: trying to rebuild a real community around punk rock music at a time when doing so feels harder than ever.”
“Time For Disruption” is available on all digital platforms from June 12.
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