The Peoples Republic of Europe

The Peoples Republic of Europe is a rhythmnic noise/ progressive doomcore outfit from the Netherlands. They blend in elements of funk, disco, hip hop, dancehall, EBM, techno and the likes in harsh powernoise. This explosive cocktail of influences made them into one of the leading powernoise acts in the world, and an act destined to explode every dancefloor.

The Peoples Republic of Europe started out on the 4th of june 2000, when [K] bought a version of Cubase VST 3.5 and started experimenting with it. On this and the following days the first demoalbum "Cumulonimbus" was made and released on CDr. This album contains 6 darkambient noise tracks, and received some good attention. In the following years The Peoples Republic of Europe released more demoalbums. The Peoples Republic of Europe never believed in short demo's for promotion and started releasing albums from the start. The second demo album "Thirst" marked the shift to rhytmnic noise. Some tracks were darkambient like on the first album, and others were already hard stompers like the latter work. On the third album "Steel and honour" the shift was complete, and apart from an isolated track here and there The Peoples Republic of Europe became a powernoise/rhytmnic industrial band.

In this time The Peoples Republic of Europe started playing live as well. XLII joined on steel percussion and some shows were played. Highlight being a bandbattle in Haarlem, where the organisation did forbid the jury to choose The Peoples Republic of Europe as winner because "The music was to extreme".

After this The Peoples Republic of Europe released the fourth demo album "Among the ruins" and the live album "The siege of Alkmaar". Especially the first one did sell extremely well. The decision was made to release the next album as a real CD. In these days [NOIR] joined the band for live vocals. In 2004 the first album "Juche" was released which was a concept album about North Korea. Critics were favourable, though many thought it odd The Peoples Republic of Europe didn't critizise the DPKR's regime.

The breakthrough came with the second CD "Monopoly of violence". Several songs on this album made it into clubhits, and there were again frowns because of the inclusion of the coversong "Pulling on the boots" from the Romper stomper soundtrack. In these years The Peoples Republic of Europe also started playing bigger festivals like Summer Darkness, Noise:nation and Noise central fest, and started playing bigger gigs with well known industrial acts like Terrorfakt, Winterkalte, Mono no aware and others. After this The Peoples Republic of Europe released two more albums. "Under stress" did consolidate the status of The Peoples Republic of Europe, and "Lubrication" did smash up the clubs once again.

In 2008 The Peoples Republic of Europe was offered a labeldeal with the Denver, USA based label Vendetta music. On this label the fifth album "Singularity" was released to much acclaim. In this time [NOIR] left the band to concentrate on his own Aryan cock-rock band "Jugend" and Statik and Puck joined the The Peoples Republic of Europe for live shows. In 2009 The Peoples Republic of Europe released the 6th album "babylon" and did tours in Europe and the USA bringing sonic destruction worldwide. "Babylon" which incorporated even more influences outside standard industrial became a favourite of many, and some even claimed it was up there among the classic albums in industrial music.

The Peoples Republic of Europe had a three album deal with Vendetta music, and after delivering the third one "Machine District" for them, The Peoples Republic of Europe went out looking for more representation in Europe. "Machine District" did get very good reviews because of the experimental sound, while not losing the dancefloor in the process. With this industrial classic in their discography, The Peoples Republic of Europe signed to Dutch industrial hardcore label Dark Descent to get a stronger foothold in Europe, and to present themselves to new audiences. The Peoples Republic of Europe has subsequently releases the album "Military Industrial Complex" and the EP D/s on Dark.Descent and the EP "Demon Rift" on Spirit Of progress. They also released the EP "Time Bomb" on Dark Like Hell as well as several contributions to compilations in the hardtechno/hardcore scene. The Peoples Republic of Europe has also released two albums on their own label New Darkness Recordings. The Peoples Republic of Europe will be concentrating on gaining a bigger foothold in the industrial hardcore scene for the future.