FORKED is a new band with old roots—formed in December last year, but grounded in decades of connection through the Portuguese hardcore scene. Their first demo drops June 20 via On the Outside Records, and it’s already sounding like a raw, urgent blend of modern hardcore with experimental and electronic elements.
The band’s members—Diogo (vocals), Pedro (guitar), Matheus (bass), and Medley (drums)—are now split between Berlin, Warsaw, and Szczecin.
“We all met in Portugal over 15 years ago through hardcore punk—going to shows, playing in bands, and building friendships around music,” they say. Diogo used to front A Thousand Words, while Pedro, Matheus, and Medley played together in Treehouses 2290. At one point, Diogo even filled in on bass for Treehouses, tightening their already strong bond.
Then life happened. “Over the past decade, life took us in different directions,” they explain. Diogo and Pedro moved to Berlin. Matheus and Medley ended up in Poland. Some of them stepped away from music entirely. But in December, they came back together and started FORKED.
This demo is the sound of that reconnection: a mixture of hardcore energy and digital texture, grounded in lived experience. “We wanted to fuse a modern hardcore with electronic elements, drawing inspiration from bands like Turnstile, Angel Du$t, and Ceremony, as well as other genres we’ve been exposed to the past 10 years.”
The themes reflect that journey—displacement, adaptation, and resilience all run through the songs. “Our experience as expats definitely shaped our music and we wanted to share themes of displacement, adaptation, and resilience into our sound and lyrics.”
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This is what happens when four friends reconnect across borders and pick up where they left off, no matter the years or miles. Hardcore’s not just a sound for them, it’s the language they’ve been speaking since way back.
The demo drops today, June 20, on tape through On the Outside Records. They’ve got a couple Berlin gigs lined up and eyes set on a Euro tour this fall. “There are soo many folks we would like to share a stage with,” they say—and you can tell they mean it.
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