OFFCELL + LAYERS

In the organizer's words:

OFFCELL from Darmstadt and Frankfurt a. M. play melancholic post-hardcore and consist of former and current members of the bands Acheborn, Robotnik, Sunburnscold, Narsaak, PSSGS, Last Nights Favorite and The Data Break, among others. Their musical roots lie strongly in the hardcore scene of the 90s.

The debut EP "still here" was self-released on a vinyl 12" in October 2024. In January 2026, the band signed a label deal with SCENE POLICE Records, a label on which bands such as Tiger Lou, Hot Water Music, Yaphet Kotto and Strike Anywhere released their first records.

The new record will be released at the end of the year, in England the release will be released via Engineer Records.

LAYERS from Wuppertal and Solingen is made up of people who played every outlet in Germany and abroad two decades ago. Marius Götze and Frederik Groborsch in bands like TUPAMAROS, LEARY or LOCKJAW, Carsten Wagner as part of FORCED TO DECAY and currently KONTROLLE as well as Micha Walmsley as singer, guitarist and songwriter in THREE.MINUTE.POETRY, who were part of the DEFIANCE RECORDS roster alongside PALE, ONE MAN AND HIS DROID and AMBROSE and established the midwest emo sound in Germany.

And now, 20 years later, there are still songs that want to get out. Having started out as a solo platform, Micha has re-recorded the first TMP album SLOWLY LEARNING THAT LOVE IS OKAY from 2001 acoustically under the name LAYERS and released it in a small vinyl edition via the Viennese label Goddamn Records. The rest came as it had to: played shows, tasted blood, remembered the good times and got the other 3 on board. Rehearsed, wrote new songs, produced them ourselves and now we've arrived in the here and now.