Russia is the largest country in the world, occupying a whooping one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area. It’s evident to even the most unaware that Russia has a huge hardcore, punk and metal scene going on for years, but to write about it is a challenging task for anyone.

From the capital Moscow to the coldest and most remote regions like Yakutsk, the DIY scene in Russia is growing exponentially as we speak. Since the beginning of 2018 there has been an ever-increasing number of new bands in a myriad of styles that continue to amaze right up to the new 2019.

Moscow’s band Reka was a great inspiration to me for the past few years, so I’m always thrilled to find about new Russian bands in the realms of post-hardcore, post-metal, screamo, crust, doom, sludge and even weird sub-genres like blackgaze.

All the bands you’ll find below are included based on my own personal findings as I don’t pretend to be that knowledgeable about the Russian scene at all. Many thanks to Ivan Tokarev for updating my initial information and guiding me inside the huge scene in Russia. For the record, I don’t speak Russian, so I’m sorry for any mistakes I made.

Beware! The Russians are coming…